Music Magazine - Development of a Double Page Spread

This is development of my mock-up of a double page music magazine spread.
Here i furthered the pages by placing a photograph into the middle of the text - this image is meant to represent the band member that left and i felt it was a valid image to tie in with the story i'ved created.
However, looking back at the image of the whole double page spread now, i wish that i had first edited the image into Black and White or 'Monochrome' before placing it - this would mean that it would work well with the synergy of the pages.

This is the same page but with neatened text and with the columns and borders hidden.

Music Magazine - Rough Draft of Double Page Spread

This is my rough draft of an inside double page spread that i created in InDesign.
Firstly, we changed the layout of the page by adding 2 new pages - to enable a double page - and then we altered the columns and borders to fit the specification.
For this particular page; i changed it to have 3 columns with margins of 8mm at the top, 14mm at the bottom, 8mm in the inside and 14mm at the outside - this meant that i could create a double page spread that was fitting to the general specification of magazine pages.
After this; we added a photo box over the whole of the left hand side - and using the 'Place' tool, adding in a relevant image. This image was far to big for the frame, so i used the Fitting tool to Fit the image Proportionally to the frame.
I chose to relate the image to the heading - i feel that the space in the image between the two "band members" represents the missing band member.
After adding a text box, i wrote a simple heading and then played around with the fonts - trying to find an eyecatching and bold headline.
I was very keen to use the szlichta07 font, but in the end i decided to use the Zapfino font and edit the word 'four' into the colour red.

Rolling Stone Magazine Covers

Music Magazines Research

The other main Music Magazines that are published and Popular at the moment are:

Q Magazine -                       

Q magazine claims to be set above all other music magazines due to it’s monthly publications, high quality imagery and printing.

They say that they are targeting a generation of older music buyers – those who were still buying CDs as opposed to the new technologies.

They were originally called Cue magazines – as in cueing a record…

Their total circulation is 80,418. Published by Bauer Media Group.

Kerrang! -

Kerrang! Magazine is a magazine that has been themed and devoted to Rock and sometimes Heavy Metal music; which means that kerrang! has a very niche market of readers – (only fans of rock/metal music).

It was first published as a supplement and was so popular that they formed it into a weekly publication.

Published by Bauer Media Group and their total circulation is 43,033.

Top of the Pops -

Top of the Pops is a monthly publication produced by the BBC as a supplement to the ever popular (now finished) music show Top of the Pops.

Top of the Pops was released in February 1995, and became the most famous for giving The Spice Girls their nicknames. Top of the Pops is obviously a young girls magazine.

Mojo –

Mojo magazine is a British music magazine published initially by EMAP and has now been bought out by Bauer (in 2008).

Mojo is a monthly publication with a circulation of 94,617.

Clash-

Clash magazine is an English publication that publishes 12 copies a year (montly) and has a circulation of 40,000.

Clash is edited by Simon Harper and is a publication that specialises in modern/alternative music genres.

Clash.com is a very popular online destination for music fans – set up in 2008 using a grant from the Scottish Government.

Music Magazine - Research into Rolling Stone

Rolling stone magazine is one of the most iconic American published music magazines around. Rolling stone magazine is a fortnightly published magazine that is focused upon Music, Liberal Politics and Pop Culture.

It was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner who is still the editor and publisher to date.

Their total circulation is 1.4million.

Published by Wenner Media.

Rolling stone magazine is also known for it’s political coverage – especially when they produced this controversial cover featuring (a naked) John Lennon and Yoko Ono – I have recently found out that this cover was said to be taken either the day before or on the exact day of his assassination. 

During the 1990s Rolling Stone changed it’s synergy to enable it to appeal to a younger and fresher audience – often focusing on famous actors, musical artists or celebrities.

Due to Rolling Stone now having such a well established brand image and an iconic Cover synergy – they are now on the of most popular and wealthy music magazines.

The covers featuring images of such recently famous and adored celebrities, artists and actors/actresses; have now become so popular that they are continuously made into posters (the majority of them framed) which can be hung in homes all across the world.

This is a very clever and simple way to advertise the magazine and it’s ‘brand’.

To show example of these ‘iconic’ covers such as the one above featuring John Lennon and Yoko; there were also over 30 covers that featured The Beatles, a cover featuring Janet Jackson, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

Rolling Stone now have a well established website:

RollingStone.com is (like with NME.com) slowly becoming a very popular site - though unlike NME it is not overtaking it's circulation of magazines. This could be due to the fact that Rolling Stone magazines are now seen to be very collectable - especially a cover that features a very famous and icon celebrity and/or music star.

Rolling Stone website has much to offer - articles, competitions, interactive features, links to websites - itunes, youtube, artists official website and fan bases, picture galleries of artists and an archive of previous Rolling Stone magazine covers.

Music Magazine - Research into NME

Music Magazine Research:NME

The music magazine industry is in a very nice market – with the target audience being very small and the amount of music based publications limited in comparison to publications such as Fashion or Lifestyle.

One of the most iconic music magazines NME (new musical express) which was founded in 1952, and it almost the ‘leader’ in this industry and owns the title of being the most popular music magazine in the British music magazine industry.

NME started off as a music newspaper and then, during the 1980s, gradually started changing into a more glossier publication. It was the first british paper to include the singles chart, which was published in 1952.

Today, NME is known for it’s Punk Rock theme due to the writing of Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill.

In 1996 www.nme.com was launched, which now can claim to having 5 million users per month.

 

NME is published weekly at an average price of £2.20. NME magazine’s circulation figures have been continuously falling since 2003, perhaps due to the recession or competition from other music publications. Their total circulation to date is 33,875.

NME Magazine is now known as an almost brand – with the magazine being perhaps one of the least popular outlets. NME now host a hugely popular show and event called the NME AWARDS where they present awards to the best music throughout the year – with the winners being voted by the magazine readers.

NME.COM is slowly becoming more and more popular than the actual magazine publication itself; i feel this is due to the fact that the internet can offer you way more outlets and links to video; itunes; artists official pages and fan bases for example.
The internet is also a very easy to find and access database that for most is free - whereas a magazine you have to get to the shops and pay the price.


They also have ventured into tours in set arenas with new up-and-coming bands/artists to showcase their music to fans and the public. Published by IPC Media.

Final College Magazine Cover

This is my final College Magazine Cover that i created using all of my own imagery, Coverlines and Contents.
As shown in previous posts, it was a very lengthy process to take the images, edit them and then fit them to frame.
I am very pleased with the final result - although i would in future change the style of my coverlines.
I chose to make these with blue and green backgrounds purely to fit into the Southdowns College synergy.