Music Magazine Evaluation

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IPC
IPC Media is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher. Almost two in every three UK women and over 44% of UK men read an IPC magazine. That's over 26 million UK adults. IPC's diverse print and digital portfolio offers something for everyone. Our 80 magazines include What's on TV, Pick Me Up, Woman, Now, Marie Claire, In Style, Woman & Home, Ideal Home, Nuts, Wallpaper*, Country Life, The Field, Rugby World, Practical Boat Owner and Look, our latest high street fashion and celebrity weekly. Our digital properties include NME.com, the third largest commercial music website in the UK and housetohome.co.uk, the UK's first homes portal. IPC's brands are very simply at the heart of the UK's cultural life IPC is owned by Time Inc., the publishing division of Time Warner Inc. Our business is split into five distinct publishing divisions: IPC Connect, IPC Inspire, IPC Ignite, IPC Southbank and IPC TX. Alongside these is Marketforce, the UK's leading magazine distribution business. IPC employs over 2,200 people, and it's their creativity, innovation, talent and commitment that drives our market-leading position in UK consumer publishing.

LINK http://www.ipcmedia.com/about/

IPC is one of the media institutions of magazines, they are the leading UK media publishers.

Bauer
Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Publishing Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Bauer Publishing Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 230 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.
Bauer Media joined the Bauer Publishing Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Bauer Publishing Group employs some 6,400 people and has a 2007 turnover of 1.79 billion Euros.
Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators

LINK http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/about

Bauer is another UK company linked to media publishing as well as broacasting radio, TV, and online broadcasting.

Time warner
Time Warner Inc., a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks, filmed entertainment and publishing, uses its industry-leading operating scale and brands to create, package and deliver high-quality content worldwide through multiple distribution outlets.

We are innovators in technology, products and services. Our digital products and services reinforce the company’s industry-leading brands on all platforms with a focus on growth, engagement and monetization. Among Time Warner's digital initiatives are: Warner Bros.' Studio 2.0, Interactive Entertainment properties as well as best selling videogames which include LEGO Batman, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and Batman Arkham Asylum, DCComics.com, Digital Cinema, TMZ.com, Total Hi-Def disc as well as multiple digital downloading and VOD distribution agreements; HBO on Demand, HBO on Broadband and HBO on iTunes; Time Inc.'s People.com, SI.com and Time.com; Turner Broadcasting's CNN.com, CNN Mobile App on iTunes, TCM.com, CartoonNetwork.com, TheSmokingGun.com, AdultSwim.com, Veryfunnyads.com, NASCAR.com, PGA.com, PGATour.com and PGA Tour App; and joint initiatives like CNNMoney.com, FanNation.com from Time Inc. and Turner.

LINK http://www.timewarner.com/corp/aboutus/our_company.html

Time warner is a media company which too broadcasts and publishes, unlike other institution so far research these are worldwide also they have produced products for well known companies.

Sony
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. (FY2008).[2] Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound.[3]
Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments—electronics, games, entertainment (motion pictures and music), financial services and other. These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation (Sony Electronics in the U.S.), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Ericsson, and Sony Financial. As a semiconductor maker, Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. The company's current slogan is make.believe.[4]

LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#History

Sony is based in Japan however it is a worldwide and is the worlds largest company that owns companies that work in publishing, radio broadcasting and electricals, time warner is ranked second for the largest media conglomerates.

Frontcover edited with barcode

I forgot to add in the barcode so I have included it now.

The final complete double page article

I have edited the article page as there was spelling mistakes and would have to be changed to look to a professional standard. This is now officially completed double page article.

Finished front cover magazine

I feel impressed about the front cover as it looks good and taken a lot of time and effort, I have changed some of layout to how I originally wanted it this is because i realised that there was no eye catching feature included on front cover so then I added in a Pug which you can see is in a red circle, it relates to a freebie which readers would get attracted to and it easily draws attention, the artist name is enlarged and the cover lines show the three genres are represented in the music magazine whilst going with the overall special edition theme of the magazine( which is Bhangra and Vasakhi blending in music and lifestyle). Overall I think it looks good all the cover lines go with what the magazine is aimed for, it show a blend of lifestyle and music, more importantly its aiming both genres girls and boys; i did this by adding the girl on front cover (rather than having a male music star as in the Bhangra scene there are less female stars as shown in my research of music tribes) as well as the freebies are music related and gives the impression I wanted that this music magazine is music focused. As its aimed at all South Asians it was very important to show that other features in the magazine includes Bollywood and Urban Desi not just Bhangra even if it is a special edition, so i still added in the left third the cover lines to do with the associated genres. Furthermore, in the contents page the cover lines are mixed matched so new audience to other genres in the magazine can get a flavor of what that genre has to offer or interest, making more it more interesting and new for readers (for example not putting all one genres cover lines altogether as it look more boring, however on other hand I seen it as easy to find what you are interested in, but this was not the approach i was looking for but more of a discovery into the magazine to interest).

I have now Finished off my second page article

I have now included onto the page logo and number with the strip (the same way i did for the first page of article). The second page of the article is now finished and was one of the hardest pages to create, I faced through a lot of issues such as, not fitting in all the images I planned on adding in, cropping remainder of the images, and adding into the article in word and making it stand out rather than overcrowded as i was left with little room as images had taken over most of the space of the page that was planned to be for left for the word article. I have left a few images not cropped to give the effect of photo shoot and 'exclusive' behind the scene feel, this was necessary for me as in my feedback of what South Asian teenagers would want to see the most was features and photos of music stars so it was very important to achieve this aim. The colour scheme went well as it went with the magazines genre colour 'Bhangra' which is always in orange also the white made more focus on the article and yet more attracting to images, the page numbers are orange as the special edition of the magazine is based around a Bhangra artist. The page small strip i included in contents and both double page article was to show the actual magazine theme colours are orange, pink and purple not to get new readers confused with the colour scheme, also i added in the logo which was too important. It was a bit of a downside to add in the page strips as it was a double page article pull out wallpaper for fans of Kiran.H (not giving the whole wallpaper effect) however, it was necessary to do this as leaving this out would not represent a DMC article and show copyright to it however with careful consideration I made sure that readers could cut the bottom of the page where the DMC logo and page number is shown to give article effect by leaving space. Overall I am impressed that I have achieved the aim even though i was planning to add in the image of the interview and more photo shoot images however I believe I still achieved the special features such as photo shoot imaging and the actual double page article focused on the music star.

My new flat plan of double page article

I changed my mind on the layout of the double page article as it the colours before did not attract the audience to read and the orange text blended into the background, now I have filled in the text box as orange and font colour as white making text stand out more. The picture layout had to be reconsidered as it all would not fit onto page so I decided to rearrange imaging making it not confusing instead more easy to follow. I am going to be adding few images than before I officially decided as shown in my previous posts and will not be using all the photography I posted online. The images in my opinion and i confidently can say do go with the article; the first image which will be on the first page of the article on the top half the page will be of the recent interview by DMC (picture taken by on day of interview) this will give and achieve my aim of giving a professional interview and article page of what happened and moreover a feature of what the artist was wearing and what new trends she is following (this can be also classed as special feature going into readers wanting to know how stars lifestyle especially fans). The bottom half of the page will have the article the article will be in 2 columns the first column there will be information on the artist this is to recap on who this artist is where she is based (general facts) this can be useful for people who have not heard of artist and can still learn knowledge on the star regardless how long they have been famous, then there is an image of her in her previous interview to show how she is changed and progressed and gives readers a reminder if they read a previous article of her from DMC. These are key features I believe to interest readers into article and a good layout, furthermore more interesting. The logo and the page number on the small strip which is colour coded in three different colours is a symbolism of copyright showing this article and creation of the magazine is created by DMC and is important to show to new readers that this magazines colour scheme is not white and orange but pink orange and purple (this is also shown through the logo letter representation of magazine name 'Desi music culture' which represent these colours, for example letter 'D' being orange, letter 'M' as pink and letter 'C' as purple). The second page of the double article is on all the future and present event the artist will be doing or planning (this is again making layout more easy to read and flow causing no confusion with her past events in other words I done a symbolism of article continued on a new page meaning a new chapter). This is where all the recent images of the photo shoot will be scattered around the page. Overall I am happy that I have designed a new flat plan with new thoughts and ideas and have not continued my old flat plan, I felt the aim of the double page article would not have been achieved and as I tried creating it, in the end I was not as confident and did not feel it would meet requirements of the AS course to look as if it was a professional music magazine standard, but now I am happy that I reconsidered the changes as it had taken time and effort to go through the process I was in before.