Final Draft

Final magazine outcome. Website is linked above central hub and is best viewed on Mac with 50 percent zoom. 

Website

https://maddyveitch6.wixsite.com/wave

pages for examination- home and latest

website

 

My pages for review are latest and home, please view on a Mac!

About us section, tap on the record to see an easter egg

when the record is tapped, you can match the record with the team member and see the correct pattern when you hover on the record.

Meet the team photos, hover over photo to see the role of each team member 

Merch and collaboration with popular clothing brand

competition with popular app, hover on photo to see details and click on album cover for easter egg

past competition, click on album cover to view easter egg

reviews, click on album cover for easter egg

ad for new issue

videos section, left is playable interview with cover artist, right is exclusive acoustic performance.

Latest:

covers of latest articles, list of inclusions, hovering on the covers shows poster inside each. Album cover will show easter egg if clicked

Playlists, clicking on any of the most popular will take you to spotify and hovering over waves faves will show you information and allow you to click a link to take you there. 

Concert reviews, the latest ones are readable with others giving you the offer to subscribe.

 Chappell Roan review, video is playable

The Last Dinner Party review, video is playable

articles, album is clickable to show pop up

advert for music app, smiley face is clickable for pop up

pop up

pop ups- all vinyl shapes clickable to lead you to spotify albums. 

Statement of Intent

 

Brief Chosen: Brief 3: Magazines and online

How do you intend to use the four areas of the media theoretical framework to communicate meaning and meet the requirements of your chosen brief?

Product 1

I intend to create a music magazine focusing on up-and-coming artists and music of all genres, especially pop and indie rock as my focus group showed a common interest in these genres. 

 For the covers of my magazine, I will have a high image to text ratio with a focus on eye catching images with a focus on the cover artist, a convention I found when researching the music magazine genre. This will appeal to the 16–25-year-old target audience as my focus group said that an eye-catching cover with a focus on the artist would make them more interested in a magazine. The name of my magazine will be 'Wave' to reference the new wave of music and pop culture articles the magazine will share. 

 As the brief states to create an independent magazine, I will reflect values often held in this genre through including a diverse range of representations of different social groups in my magazine. My cover stars will be a muslim rock artist and a lesbian pop artist, with the latter's cover having an intertextual reference to popular pop artist Chappell Roan through the styling and cover line 'Its a femininomenon'. This will appeal to a wide audience as Chappell Roan has over 42 million monthly listeners and is a popular artist within the age group according to my focus group. 

Product 2

I will create a website with clear synergy with the covers and contents pages of my magazine. I will create this through continuing with the same colour palette, fonts and 'Wave' masthead throughout. I will also include features that go beyond what is included in the contents pages to give the audience an incentive to access the website. I will include opportunities for fan interaction such as competitions to win tickets and submission opportunities, this will create a feeling of connection between the audience and producers and allow them to feel like they have a say in what they read, a common feature in independent magazines. I will also create synthetic personalisation through opportunities to learn more about the teams interests and playlists made by cover stars they can access.

How do you intend to link your media products to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the digitally convergent nature of your media production?

To create digital convergence, I will create a recognisable brand identity including a logo for the masthead that is shown throughout both the magazine and website. I will also ensure that a colour palette of black, white, and pink are included in both products.  

Within my contents pages, I will include a call to action encouraging readers to check the magazines website for extra content, as well as a qr code that will take them to it. I will also include names of articles which I will discuss on the website and information on competitions available on the website. 

first draft

 

https://maddyveitch6.wixsite.com/wave

Features added to website

 

 sliding photos and editors letter

 call to action 

 

first cover designs 

New photos for front cover

 

After receiving feedback for my photos taken over summer, I found a new person to take photos of with a more clear look of an artist and made sure to represent a different social group

feedback for photos

 Feedback for photos taken: 

photos with the green background are not as effective and the social group representation of lgbtq+ individuals is not clear enough, photos with rainbow background are effective though.