The Third Version Of My Magazine

IPC Media

IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publisher. IPC publishes magazines such as Mouse breaker, NME, Nuts, Uncut, and TV Times etc.

As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher we engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. IPC have an award winning portfolio of websites, which reaches over 25 million users globally every month. Also IPC Media works in partnership with its consumers, advertisers, business partners and employees.

The magazine I’m choosing to analyse is the NME music magazine. NME is the longest published and one of the most respected weekly music magazines in the UK. Every week it gives its readers the most exciting, most exclusive coverage of the very best in new music, including award-winning features, the latest releases, live reviews, and the definitive guide to the best new bands. As well as a regular look back through the magazine's incredible 60 year heritage.

The target audience is roughly around 14 to 24 year old males, this can be shown by the bright colour code, and the highly sexualisation of women and the advertising is aimed primarily at the male audience; such as aftershave, body wash, watches etc.

The secondary audience would be parents, younger or older siblings, partners, or just passer byes in shops and super markets who read the headlines.

What I’ve Learnt From Making
My Magazine Cover

 

During the process of creating my magazine cover I have learnt many different things.

I have developed the ability to use Photoshop, which is something I couldn’t do before I started this piece of work. This will be helpful for the future, for when I have to create other pieces of coursework for media, and it will also help for other subjects.

I have also developed a better understanding of how magazines are pieced together. I can now analyse and break down the cover of a magazine; this has helped me on creating my own cover.

I have learnt what the legal requirements of a magazine are; the fact a magazine must have a barcode, what issue it is, and the price.



This Is My Second Draft For My Front Cover



This Is My First Draft For My Front Cover



Options For Main Image For "All Or Nothing Music"



Flat Plan For "The Daily Bede's" Contents Page

Flat Plan For "The Daily Bede's" Cover Page

Possible Logos

My Slogan

The slogan says “War Has Been Waged On Your Ear Drums!!!”. This is to suggest the music (heavy metal), is so loud that it is going to come out of the pages of the magazine and attack your ear drums.

It also could mean that if your parents don't like the genre, it will attack their ears. As the target audience is adolescents. It could also link to the aggressiveness of heavy metal. and some teenagers are agressive and some of those teens could be potential customers.

 



My Logo



I chose this logo because out of the ones I created I preferred this one the most because the style isn't to complex but not too simple.

I’ve used “chiller” for the font  and put a circle around the “A” so it is the anarchy symbol. I’ve done this because, the magazine will have a genre of heavy metal, and in the eighties metal fans had the life styles of anarchist; like  fans of “Slayer”, “Metallica”, “Black Sabbath” etc.

And anarchy/rebellion is going to be the main style of the magazine as it is primarily aimed at teenagers who are rebelling by listening to “un-godly”.