Flatplan

DPS right hand page

DPS left hand page

Contents page

Front cover

Time management schedule

Week 1
-find two music magazines to analyse
-start to analyse the different music magazines' front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Week 2
- finish analysing music magazines
-start to brainstorm possible genres for magazine
-think of name for magazine once found suitable genre
-create questionnaire to help make decisions about magazine, such as colours, names etc.

Week 3
- analyse results of questionnaire
-start a flat plan of cover, contents and DPS
-begin to plan the sort of pictures I plan on taking

InTune editorial profile

An insight into the undiscovered world of festival music, including gig dates, interviews and alternative fashion. Target readership - typically 'cool' teens to young adults both male and female who enjoy going to raves, are chilled out and interested in attending big events.

NME double page spread analysis

Immediately drawn to left page, covered in pictures of Mighty Boosh, center one of Noel Fielding on floor with top up, eyes wide open.

Dressed up in all pictures, looks fun and entertaining. Pictures are bizarre so you would read the article to find out what they are doing!

Every picture has been put at a canted angle - as if it's been put together in a rush, no effort - creates image of being unorganised, rather use the time to do better things - and to find out what those things are you have to read on.

Right hand page, massive title, with the 'Mighty Boosh' signature symbol inside the O's - instantly recognisable.

Quotes in bold randomly on page to lure you in. Some smaller writing in capitals to stand out more.

Page has theme of black, white and blue.

Whole DPS looks fun - wants to reflect contents of article.

NME contents analysis

Drawn to Dizzee in the middle first of all, in the center of the page, he's looking at the audience, head slightly tilted , hand near face in a gesture.
Buildings behind him. Biggest writing on page 'Dizzee became PM material'. This is luring and creates enigma so we want to read on and find out more as it comes across as a suprising idea - we all know Dizzee.
Band index in small down left hand side, alphabetical order so easy to follow.
Short descriptions of what's inside, listed under different heading to also make it simple to follow.
'NME' at the top, same design - brand identity.
Keeping with black and red colour scheme to go with front cover - easier to recognise as NME and that they are together.
Advertisement box at the bottom, in yellow writing which goes against colour scheme, stands out more.
Arrow at bottom right hand corner as an extra.

NME front cover analysis

Cover image of Noel Fielding crowd surfing, all in black, big smile, young people having fun - gives effect that he's 'mad' so article will also be like this.
His arms are lighter, probably from the flash suggesting it is an ammature shot taken from a gig.
'NME' is in the top left, noticeably in red, covered slightly by Noels hand - which shows it must be recognisable.
Coverlines in circles, looks slapped on like stickers.
Sets theme of craziness, like a gig/party should be
Tickertape at the bottom is in the conventional place

Kerrang double page spread analysis

Starts off with two pages of pictures of 'frontman Matt Tuck'. Both dark, close up shots/mid shots with focus on face as its the lightest thing on the page compared to everything else. He's looking at the audience, one straight on, he has a smouldering look and he has his arms behind head, looks relaxed.

The article page stays with the dark theme, big picture of Matt Tuck in action, a green light behind him.

The writings very small, no lures until last page - even then, theres only a box in the top corner of 'lessons learned' perhaps as an inspiration for those who look up to him.