Institutions Research

Publishers:

Bauer

Bauer is one of Europe most successful publishing companies. It mainly publishes Magazines, many of which are women's gossip magazines, women weeklies. Bauer made a very significant change in the women's magazine market when they released Bella into the UK in 1987.The magazine with interesting real life stories made many readers want to buy the magazine, the publishers even more attention in 1990 with the release of Take a break. It quickly became the markets leading magazine and despite many competitors in later years it remained the UK's leading magazine.

IPC Media

IPC Media are a publicised that have published a vast amount of Magazines, ranging from Sport and Leisure to Women's Weeklies. They create media for a range of devices: Mobiles, Apps, Tablets, Online, Newspapers. They are committed to establishing a working relationship with their consumers , advertisers, business partners and are determined to employ employees that deliver great service and creativity. 

IPC Media is a publishers with a long running history that is very hard to fully track. The first official publication was a newspaper called, "The Field" in 1853. Having released many Newspapers and Magazines since then the company has evolved with the times. With the change of the millennium the company changed their name from IPC Magazines to the IPC Media that we know today.

The company is slit into several divisions the main ones being; IPC Connect, IPC Inspire and IPC Southbank. 

Future PLC

Future PLC is a media group, founded in 1985 that is known internationally. When it was first founded it only published one magazine. However now it creates over 200 publications, apps, websites and events for specific interests. They believe that they should share the same passions as they're consumers so that they can build they're leading positions in the UK and other countries they work in.  Future is one of the biggest music publishers in the UK and the biggest guitar amd music making publisher. 

Target Audience Research

Research Target Audience

Genre Research

Pop Music Genre Research:

-Pop music is any popular music of the present day, and usually in the charts.

-Usually involves a popular artist.

-Evolved from rock and roll.

-Aimed at a youth market.

-Usual instruments used for the music: Keyboard, Drums, Guitar, Bass.

-Usually the music is aimed at a board range audience rather than a particular group and/or community.

-Artist concentrate on recording, production and video rather then live performances.

-Usually a fast, up tempo and beat encourages people to dance. Which is why many music videos have a dance routine.

-Pop has many notable artists. Two of the most famous pop artists were Michael Jackson: King of Pop, and Madonna: Queen of Pop.

Target Audience and Genre Brief

Target Audience and Genre Brief 

I plan to design a Music Magazine for a large age range of people, though mainly teenagers through to people in their twenties, interested in Pop. I have chosen to cover this genre because its one of the most popular music genres there is and therefore many people will be interested in purchasing a Music Magazine of this genre, also I believe that people of this age range are more likely to waste their money on things like this because they don't have to provide for the whole family usually.

Evaluation - Preliminary Task

Evaluation of Preliminary Magazine

Front Cover of the Magazine.

Contents Page of Magazine

For the Preliminary task we we're given the task of creating a front cover and contents page for a school magazine. To learn more about a school magazine we studied a series of Magazines, almost all of these have been posted on blogger. However, for since this task was to create a school Magazine we had to study the school magazine: Excel. I found that the magazine was fairly basic. Though the Mast head was had a effect on it which meant it stole most of the attention from the other cover lines and images, it was generally very basic and minimalistic. The reason for the very basic layout and little information on the front was probably because of the Magazines target audience, all pupils from the ages of 11-18 wouldn't be interested in the cover, unless of course they were on it. They'd be more interested in the contents of the Magazine. Plus it may be because the school couldn't afford to print lots of different things on the cover because of financial issues.

Taking on this idea of simpleness I believe I could have improved my cover page dramatically if I'd stuck to that. However I felt constricted by the things that the Magazines that we'd studied had on. I felt I had to place a extra cover line on to the cover. 

When I thought of the name I decided to use one of the most positive words that is one of the schools values. This would make the title something they could relate to and under stood. Then I created a fancy effect on it and used a red stroke on the out side of the text. The colours I used on the effect and stroke soon became my house colours; Red, White and Blue.

My font was also fairly simple and easy to understand. This was because my audience wouldn't read a Magazine that they couldn't under stand, plus the simple sans serif text went well with the basic and simple design of the overall cover and contents page. My images were of things that many of the students would be interested in. For example students that love musicals or are in Fame will be interested in the story. This meant that it would attracted more people attention since more people could relate to it if it was the main cover line photograph. 

My contents page was just as simple as the cover, yet it looks unprofessional for some reason. I believe this may be because of the dramatic contrasting house colours I've used. Despite have stuck to the house colours the font of the introduction is too large and looks like the editor couldn't write enough, so next to the already unappealing colours this just adds to the general unprofessional design of it. 

If I'd of had more time, I would have changed my colours to suit better and wrote more in the editors welcome so that it would look more professional. When I do my music Magazine I will learn from my mistakes in this Preliminary task and create a very interesting and almost professional Magazine cover.



Re-written Article

Article rewrite into informal language.

GCSE HELL!!!

As I'm sure many of you will agree, taking your GCSEs is no walk in the park! You have to study for some ridiculously, long and stressful hours to get even a decent grade. So, why on earth would anyone think that its a bad thing that these hard working diligent students and earning even better results then previous years?

Well Ofqual ( A regulator, clearly ignorant to the pressures and stress that GCSEs bring) claimed that:

"GCSE English is Too easy"

So, because of this stupid and ridiculous comment all the exam boards panicked and found the need to exam grade boundaries...

Two weeks before the final results were released.

So, all of the sixteen year old's who have taken their GCSEs unaware of these absurd changes have not reached their targets, especially those hoping for a good C grade which their teachers had promised they'd meet in the exams with flying colours. Now, many of these wanting to carry on into further education cannot meet the qualification acceptance levels they require to continue their education!

Here's what other sixteen year old have to say:

"Like, Oh My God! I can't even, like, college course...Its just so, like F***ing unfair!"

Said Anonymous from Hull.

"Its ridiculous, why haven't the government done anything about this!"

Complained Mia from London.

"Now I have to resit my GCSE English course in sixth form rather than one of my chosen subjects!" 

Martha from Lincoln

I personally think we should sit down all those regulators and exam boards in an exam hall and see how well they do since its too easy. They should pass with flying colours, right?
Its safe to say that we're all, well and truly, pissed off!

Proposal

I intend to create a Pop music magazine's Cover, Double Page Spread Article and Contents Page. The target audience I intend to hit will be Pop music fans within the age range 15-25. Its going to be a monthly magazine, at a resonable price of £2.99. I intent to create a article about K-pop as it connects with the recent Popular music single gangnam style. The house style and colours will be gender-neutral, so that it will be more likely to attracted a wider ranged audience of males and females. The cover image will be of either a band or artist who has been inspired by K-Pop.