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This is my mood board just giving some basic facts and background to shelter the charity company.

This picture shows me blurring her body to make the text clearer but leaving her face.

I tried keeping a picture of my front cover model on my contents page. It made it harder to read the writing so i wanted to blur the image of her. i cannot blur out her face because people still need to recognize her so as shown in the next image i blurred her body and not her face

This is my first attempt at creating my contents page.

My reader profile will be someone young who's in there teenage years who wants to be updated on the news and gossip of the music industry.

When i was looking at font i chose a large bold and simple font which would be clear and easy to read at the top of the magazine front cover. The color can vary but usually a pinkish color would look best to represent a pop magazine. 

This is a comparison of a lucozade poster from 1970 and 2015. We can tell just by looking at the bottles that lucozade has had a massive change in its original idea of a drink. For instance at first lucozade where targeting their drink at people who had been ill or sick and needed to recover. More recently lucozade are only saying that there drink is an energy boost but not to help you recover. This may be because people over the years have found out that drinks like lucozade are not healthy but can harm you. Furthermore the brand has kept most of its main ideas in having a glucose sparkling drink which boosts your energy. Also their brand is still represented by gold or red which suggests a sense of power and the drink being prestige.

This is a print screen of my first attempt of a rough copy of my magazine cover. It is a close up of someones face who represents a pop artist and my masthead of "whats popping in pink at the top.

I asked a few people around me some multiple choice questions to find out what they would like to see in my magazine and to find out more about my target audience. The questions where as follows...

1. What would you want to see on the front cover of a pop music magazine?
A. A close up picture of a recognised or famous pop artist?
B. A non close up but a picture of a well know celeb?
C. Neither
Most of the people i asked where around 16 years old and said A.

2.what kind of colour them would catch your eye?
A. Pink
B. Any bright colour
C. Neither
Most people said B and the rest A.

3. How much would you pay for a pop music magazine?
1.£1
2.£2
3.nothing
Most people said they would be willing to pay up to £2 (B).

4. Would you want to hear about celeb gossip or just about music?
A. Gossip
B. Just music
C . Neither
Every single person answered A

From this survey which i took i now understand that most people want to see a close up of a celeb or pop artist and that bright colours will cath their eye and encourage them to buy it. Additionally i found that most people will pay up to £2 for a pop music magazine and that they all want to hear and know about the gossip in the pop industry.

This is my video showing the questions we spoke about in regards to my magazine and what people want to see. This was my focus group.

My target audience will be 12-25 year olds who are into pop music. The reason i think this age group is correct is because they are more involved in the social media gossip and are aware of whats going on in the music industry. They will want to know what gossip is spreading and whats happening.

These are my consent forms which i made the participants from my focus group sign as i needed to record them to answer my questions on what types of magazines they like.

The following picture shows the drawings of my 6 main shots which i would like to include in my magazine.

This is my flat plan which shows the general ideas and theme of what i want my magazine front cover to be like.
I would like the person on the front to represent a music pop artist and right his or her name toward the left the page in big writing. I would like my brand and magazine name "whats popping" to be in bold capitals along the top with three dots after them and possibly a question mark. I would then like there to be many cover lines which are just like teasers talking about the the contents inside the magazine.

                     This is my pop magazine deconstruction

                        Introducing my brief

During this task i need to create a magazine cover for a music magazine. I am hoping to target people who are into pop music and represent pop music as a whole. I plan to call my magazine "Whats popping?"

I will need to take a picture for my front cover which attracts my target audience, my plan is to get a close up of a musicians face and surround their face with cover lines and strap lines. My initial idea was to get a picture of someone who's angle of gaze is not directly at the audience but this may not be a good idea as it is not as good for attracting buyers and the target audience.

Inside my brief I will need information about big upcoming pop concerts and gossip about some celebrity's who are related to the pop industry. One of the main focuses of my contents will be pop celebrity's partners and their relationships. This includes any break ups, get togethers, and gossip.

To create the perfect magazine i will need to perform certain tasks before. For example i need to deconstruct some media texts and create a rough example and drawing of what id like to create.

I think i will find it easy to take a picture for my front cover as i spend alot of my time outside school with cameras where i create videos and pictures as a hobby. I may find it hard to find the right person to actually represent pop music on my front cover but once i have found them the picture should be easy.

During my first few lessons as a media studies student i have covered a number of different topics in class. For instance Media terms, Colour theory, Semiotics, Representation, and social, cultural and political context. To give an understanding of each topic i will speak about them all in more depth.

Some media terms i have learnt so far are as follows...

Colour theory

Colour theory is a theory which suggests that different colours used and seen in media may make the audience or a person feel a certain way and can change their mental state and attitude. The diagram below shows some of the colours and connotations they may have along with them.

Semiotics

Semiotics are the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. This means the use of signs and symbols in media. Semiotics are used all the time in everyday media life and some of the symbols used are so well known that they are almost a universal language and can be used to create meaning or imply or suggest something to the audience.

Representation

Representation in media is all about how people are made to look and how people may be separated and stereotyped by their race, culture, religion, gender and any other differences i may of missed out. For instance teenagers in the UK may be shown as violent, uneasy, and dangerous but in general most teenagers may not be like that at all.

As well as learning individually about all of these areas of media i have also learnt how to deconstruct and anotate a magazine. I have learnt key words and techniques which the creator may have used to create meaning or target a certain audience 

In recent media studies lessons we have been learning about what the male gaze means and how it may affect the way in which the audience understands media. 

In feminist philosophy "the male gaze" is the act of depicting the world and women in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine and heterosexual point of view, which present women as objects of male pleasure, and as a result woman look at themselves through the eyes of men in the media.

The theory of "the Male Gaze" was created by Laura Mulvey. Laura is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media.

The male gaze can sometime be hard to find in media but it is shown when females are represented only by how they seem to the hero or the male in the movie or media type.
It is often hidden but most females are only shown as they may be seen by a male for example for their sexuality. This can be seen in the picture of a set of a James bond film.

My names Aj and this is my first ever post on blog spot. Im a media studies student at NMBEC and over the next two years i will be studying 9 different types of media. These 9 types of media are ....
Magazine
Radio
Music video
Film
Video game
Newspaper
Online
Advertising
Television

Within these nine forms of media i will study different areas of media theoretical framework. There are specifically 5 areas which are ..

Media language:
what is meant by the text or images used by the writer or creator.

Media industries:
The the way the media may be promoted or distributed but also its platform in the media.

Media representation:
This looks at the variety of  different types of people and how they are represented and seen stereotypically  by the the media. For instance by age religion or gender.

Media contexts:
This area looks at the background to the media and takes into consideration what was going on at the time this media was created.

Media audiences
This looks at how the media has specific target audiences and how the audience themselves can become prosumers and benefit of the media. The audience can use the media given to them and recreate or change it in a way which could be seen as another form of media