Pitch

Pitch

ROD is a new magazine aimed at the market of 14-30 year olds. The readers of this magazine will most likely be males who enjoy dancing and having a good night out.

It will cover all most aspects of Eurodance music from the popular bands to the must listen music that has just been released. It will be a mixture of Band Interviews to talking about gigs, good websites for music, maybe mention radio and perhaps mention the location of places that bands generally tend to visit often and where the best Eurodance bands will be playing. It will use a large colour scheme of light colours with one or two darks colours, Lots of text but not too much and an excellent range of photography, both edited and unedited.

The example double page spread will be an interview with the ‘Lords of Paradise’, discussing their newest  album ‘Moonlight at Sundown’ and their new tour around Europe. Their will also be an article advertising the band Requiesca’s new hit single, Forgotten Past and some Tour Information About ‘Lords Of Paradises’ Tour around Europe with gig information.

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Survey Progress

I created my survey and so far... nothing.
No-one has even looked at my survey so i have had an idea.
I have found one or two forum websites which are based only on eurodance fans and have posted my survey up their and as these are good fans of the music, they should answer honestly and give good information.

Audience Profile

‘Redemption Of Dance’  magazine’s audience is passionate for the music,  Open minded and generally Intellectuals who have a talent for art, striving to create a masterpiece through practice and discovery. Our magazine is made up of 72% of groups ABC1 and the audience is split about 85% male and 15% female.

Magazine Name Selected

I have thought about what to call my magazine and I belive I have a brillinat name. People these days have got shotnened worlds for everything like LOL meaning 'laugh out loud' and OMG meanine 'oh my god' so i have thought of a name that relates to the music style, sounds cool and has an obvious shortened name.

the name I have chosen for my magazine is 'Redemption Of Dance' which shortens down to R.O.D

Kmag (Double Page Spread)

Photography:  The photography used are almost all except two , based on the same style which is of the upper portions of the body showing their T-shirts and the people showing off. They all seems the same ( A lot of repetition)which I personally don’t like but the pictures that don’t match these are one advertising an event and the other taken in a studio of a full body shot (Only because he is knelt down) showing of his clothes and a bag. All the photo taken pictures are that of people showing off which means that they are trying to show the reader either a style of fashion just so that they are away or they are showing it to make people buy the clothing/ brand.

Colour’s scheme: Bland. That is how I would describe the colour scheme used within this D.P.S. The colour scheme consists of two main colours, Black and White. The pictures are all different colours with no consistency and the only colours that matter are the shirts that they are wearing which consists of blue, and, red and this just shows that those are the colours available for the shirts. The only other colours are yellow, orange and white which with the other colours mentioned, make up the patterns of the shirts and the only reason they are using these colours is so that the article isn’t completely bland and to flog their products onto the reader/ consumer. The only good colours is that of the little advert for an event which is a black that fades into a green through effects and the blue border at the topic which is over-shadowed by the dullness of the rest of the article. these are the only good parts of the article that I like.

Writing Style:  The writing style is almost all the same within this article. All the text for description is the same size and font while all the titles are all in capitals and are a larger sized font (Still the same font). The only things that stand out is that the Font for the topics  such as ‘Soul Controlled’ and ‘Care in the community’ are a larger font still with their own white border (Blends too much into the background) are bold apart from the ‘Podworks: KongKast’ where only the word kongkast is in bold while podworks is not. This could mean that the word Podworks pops up multiple times, maybe even in past articles/magazines.

Overall look: boring. This is how it looks. The pictures don’t even seem to try and stand out, The background is plain white and It feels like you are reading an Unorthodox product just like a book but isn’t a book. There isn’t much to say but the outlook on this article is quite bleak. Only the photoshopped event advertisement and the border at the top are brilliant and yo be the only things that would look good in a magazine.

Text/Picture ratio: the text to picture ratio is about 65:35 with only the pictures standing out and not even by much.

Publisher:  Phoenix Publishing, formerly Vision Publishing

DJ Weekly (Double Page Spread)

Photography: There are only two pictures used within this article with a video. The pictures show that of known people, most likely DJ’s whom the article is talking about. The 1^st picture has been done in a studio as the background is all white and the costumes used to express themselves and most likely are not intended to have any context to them. The second picture is that of a facial shot and this has been edited so it is in grey-scale. This makes the picture look older than it appears and grey-scaled pictures seem to be used a lot when it refers to either an old artist or it seems to refer to an interview with a solo artist.

Colours scheme: the colour scheme used are that mostly of light colours. Light green can be used to represent nature and the different coloured blues could represent the sky or ocean.  The writing is coloured in black, white and blue with different parts in different colours. What is interesting in this article is not the fonts used but

Writing Style:  The Fonts all seem to be the same apart from underneath the march chart which is just to represent the chart, music names/bands are in capitals and some of the Worlds such as ‘Coleco’ and ‘Download now’ are surrounded by a border to make them stand out. It is set out like any other article but what is interesting in this article is not the fonts used or their sizes but the title of the article underneath the picture on the left page. What is interesting about this is that unlike any other article that I have read, Instead of giving the title a fill, It overlaps the picture and used the colours from the picture to represent itself and in this case, being black at the beginning and the end but fading into yellow in the middle. The title is also attached to the bottom of the picture and this makes the title subtle like a cat stalking its prey.

Overall look:  Overall, the colours seem to give this article a ‘laid-back’ feel  to it as  it doesn’t seem to used too many words or use too many pictures or effects which in total, makes the magazine give of a calming sense of relaxation which is usually the juxtaposition to modern day magazine articles who plan too much and take everything and make them stand out too much.

Text/Picture ratio: The picture to text ratio in this article seems to be about 45:55 with the pictures making up 55%. What seems to be important is not the amount of pictures that take it up but the size of the pictures used as they seem to use  less pictures but increase the size which may relate as to why the article seems ‘relaxed’.