Evaluation 3

What media institution might distribute your magazine and why?

- when thinking about how to distribute my magazine, I have to take into consideration the fact that their is three different ways of publicising them. Independent Publishing, Self Publishing & Major Publishing.  

I researched who publishes NME magazine, and as due to the fact I believe that if I was to publish my magazine I would send it off and like it to be published & distributed by Time Inc. UK formerly known as IPC media. Time Inc. sells over 350million copies of magazines worldwide every year, the company have a huge portfolio and I believe that if my magazine was to become a real issue every month id like Time Inc. to publish it, any company with the same networks and knowledge, also produces NME and many other well known magazines such as LIFE magazine and WorldSoccer which I read too, But for my magazine to gain recognition and the respect as to what I would want it to I would want it published and distrusted by TimeInc.

When deciding which publishers would be the best, Bauer media group came into mind because they produce good magazines such as Q & Kerrang! but both of which aren't the same genre as my magazine therefore I would not like it to be published amongst a Major Pop music mag and a rock/heavy rock mag. I did seriously consider it though, due to the fact the Bauer media group would have huge connections and a big following and maybe they have room for a successful Indie music magazine amongst the other two major music magazines.

Magazine photos

When deciding what photo's and what to wear in them, my idea was pretty simple.. 'try and look like an indie rock band' & wear things that were abhorrent yet strangely worked... like one of my friends in my photos wore a tartan coloured t shirt (blue and red) with a fur coat... thinking about it, it shouldn't work, yet in context for my magazine it did. this photo (below) in the magazine was not in colour, i decided to use a greyscale filter in order to fit three separate photos together for my double page spread. all these photos are the ones I've used. 

this photo was used as my main cover photo, the left one is the unedited version, the one on the right one was used as my main cover photo and the middle photo is my rough final magazine cover. the composition of this photo is one that many of bands and major magazines use, with the main singer.. in this case, me at the front looking blankly into the camera with the rest of the band in the back ground positioned so that they are still noticeable. Many magazines use this technique when taking photos as shown below.

these photo's are original photos i took and are within the magazine itself. 

Rough Magazine Ideas

Rough Magazine Ideas.

 

 

For my magazine name I had to stick to one genre, indie rock/alternative. obviously it gives me room to branch out due to an expanding genre of alternative music, anything from the heavier side of indie rock to the feel good summery side of the genre. and everything in-between. as I said in the last post, NAM is the name of my music mag. All of the main images were sourced of Google/Bing. but the text I had to put in myself. both magazines are just rough covers and are missing vital things, such as date's and barcodes. however these magazines are just rough quick little throw together to give me an image of the ideal magazine id like to create at the end, once I have sourced my own photos I can start working on my mag. to create these magazine front covers I used Microsoft Publisher, because it quick, easy and gives a professional look to my magazine without having to know the ins and outs of every dimension and having to create different layers, and this is the simplest way for me to create a sharp magazine and for me to create my ideal front cover.  with my magazine I have aimed it towards a sort of NME look with bold contrasting colours working together to create an eye catching style to the cover.

                                       

 



Indie Magazine Name ideas.

Magazine Name Ideas.

Coming up with a name for my magazine had to be the hardest decision, I had a rough idea that my magazine was to be based on the rolling stone of magazines NME (New Musical Express), so I decided to go for an abbreviated name also. NAM (New Alternative Music) was the name I settled for, with a simplistic logo. Usually there is no background square, I just needed a colour to show that around the outside of the text is an outline of white to give a contrast to the black. To give myself an idea of how id like my magazine to look I did two rough cover's of artists that Id expect to categorise within my genre.

ideology in Rock

Rock

 

 

Most people assume rock as a dark and rebellious genre of music, and they'd be right to do so. but the majority of rock and heavier music is purely for the music, people don't listen to bands for what they look like, they listen to the music. But recently rock band have had to change their image, because nowadays it is what they look like too, which is a shame because they spend more time on an image than their music. Rock is considered dark and grungy, every now and then a new band comes along and steals the limelight for a brief minute and they have a perfect balance of swagger, style and good music. a band like Royal Blood, new to 2014. Enough swagger in interviews and style to catch an eye, and great dynamic music, also they bring something new being a two piece rock band.

if you talking a long time back into the rock bands it wasn't necessarily about style but just image and what image the produced for the listeners and also the music was good, so bands such as Metallica and Black Sabbath. although style does play a part I think you can tell the type of music they make by just hearing a band name or looking at what they're wearing or how they say things, you can almost decipher what music genre they make.

the music magazines covering the rock genre are often dark colours and have text that is often distorted.

 

 

 



 

School Magazine Front Cover.

School Magazine Front Cover.

mood board

for my magazine I had to create a mood board on things that would concern my magazine, because I want my magazine to be based purely on music, no stereotypes, just the music so making a mood board full of bands that I love the music of.