Wednesday 15 December 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Research & Planning: Comparisons with other music magazines
'Lyric', my own designed magazine, is quite similar to the magazine I am comparing it with. This was not intentional but I will probably make some alterations so that there are much more differences. 'Rock Sound' is a rock/emo/alternative genre based magazine that has an audience of teenagers+ and particularly the white race. Although my magazine is a rock/alternative genre, music is changing so much in this generation that 'emo' may slip into it the category, depending on publicity and fame. I have also aimed for my audience to be 14 year old+ and will most probably attract the white race as the majority of white people listen to these types of music. Although, I want it to be of a wide range and any race can read it but everything is stereotyped nowadays.
I have planned to have my front cover's main colour scheme as black, white and blue whereas once again, Kerrang is very similar. Fortunately, Rock Sound change the colour scheme of their front covers most weeks but they have used black and white a fair few times. I have looked at many of their magazines and they change weekly; one week it'll be a theme of black, white & yellow, the next it will be white, green, black & yellow whereas another week it will be blue, red & white etc! I, on the other hand, would personally keep Lyric with the same background every week even though Rock Sound have used a very clever and eye catching technique by changing the cover several times. The advantages would be of keeping the readers interested, guessing what the colour schemes would be next and Rock Sound can relate the colours to the features of the main bands. The disadvantage is that because it changes so often, the audience would not be able to identify the magazine very easily.
I also want a big, bold heading of my magazine's name whereas Rock Sound have theirs this way too. The difference would be that I would prefer mine to be grammatically corrected with a capital L and the rest of the letters lower case whilst Rock Sound has chosen to have it's name in all capitals. This is a good way to have it as it's eye-catching and very bold but quite boring at the same time. Also, their main images overlaps their heading and I want to have 'Lyric' at the front and nothing to overlap it or for it to overlap the main image either - this is also an example of an editing style. Other editings made are of images tilted to the side, jaunty and different angles that you would not expect which I hope to use in the future with my own magazine.
Rock Sound contains several advertisements, reviews, features and images just like I hope my magazine will contain. More images that are contained are big and 'in your face' so that the audience is able to see some of the best pictures of those bands and the language used attracts the audience to read on and buy more magazines. I hope to use both these techniques in my magazine so that it comes out in the best quality. The features and reviews, in Rock Sound magazine, also take up a few pages which is what I am hoping to do with my own magazine as well as sections for the advertisements. It gives the audience a pull perspective about the bands and due to having a large amount of space, gives an excuse for the magazine to get as much information about them as possible.
I have planned to have my front cover's main colour scheme as black, white and blue whereas once again, Kerrang is very similar. Fortunately, Rock Sound change the colour scheme of their front covers most weeks but they have used black and white a fair few times. I have looked at many of their magazines and they change weekly; one week it'll be a theme of black, white & yellow, the next it will be white, green, black & yellow whereas another week it will be blue, red & white etc! I, on the other hand, would personally keep Lyric with the same background every week even though Rock Sound have used a very clever and eye catching technique by changing the cover several times. The advantages would be of keeping the readers interested, guessing what the colour schemes would be next and Rock Sound can relate the colours to the features of the main bands. The disadvantage is that because it changes so often, the audience would not be able to identify the magazine very easily.
I also want a big, bold heading of my magazine's name whereas Rock Sound have theirs this way too. The difference would be that I would prefer mine to be grammatically corrected with a capital L and the rest of the letters lower case whilst Rock Sound has chosen to have it's name in all capitals. This is a good way to have it as it's eye-catching and very bold but quite boring at the same time. Also, their main images overlaps their heading and I want to have 'Lyric' at the front and nothing to overlap it or for it to overlap the main image either - this is also an example of an editing style. Other editings made are of images tilted to the side, jaunty and different angles that you would not expect which I hope to use in the future with my own magazine.
Rock Sound contains several advertisements, reviews, features and images just like I hope my magazine will contain. More images that are contained are big and 'in your face' so that the audience is able to see some of the best pictures of those bands and the language used attracts the audience to read on and buy more magazines. I hope to use both these techniques in my magazine so that it comes out in the best quality. The features and reviews, in Rock Sound magazine, also take up a few pages which is what I am hoping to do with my own magazine as well as sections for the advertisements. It gives the audience a pull perspective about the bands and due to having a large amount of space, gives an excuse for the magazine to get as much information about them as possible.
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