Thursday, 2 March 2017

Introduction

The brief states that we have  been asked to produce a new music magazine for North London, as there is a vibrant music scene developing locally and people need  to know about it.
We are required to make samples pages from the first edition of the magazine, to showcase the talent and venues in the area.

We have to create a front cover and a double paged spread.  Before doing so, we have to plan, produce and edit the sample pages for the local music magazine.

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Task 1: Create a proposal for a media product (P1, P2, M1)

Learning outcome 1: Be able to create a proposal with sample materials for an original media product to a client brief.
Task 1: My proposal

After reading the brief that was created I have come up with a great idea for a new music magazine that is based in north London. I have been doing research and have come up with an idea that could be different and interesting for the local people living there. I have written a proposal that explains and tells you about all the funds, appearances and any other details that are included in my magazine and that are important. The magazine that I have created is called ‘Jazz Times (North London)'.  Jazz music is a popular music genre in North London and there are always gigs and shows around North London of new jazz singers and musicians.

 
Objective-

Jazz times’ magazines main objective is to be the newest and latest guide to listening to new jazz music in North London. Reading this magazine will get people up and out of the house and into new music and going to different environments such as jazz concerts and gigs. We want to aim to get young and mainly middle aged adults up and out of their homes and finding themselves at new music events that they wouldn’t usually go to. Our main aim is to bring young adults out of their comfort zone and finding new love for different music. This will also help younger but mainly middle aged adults meet new people and make new friends with the same love and passion for music.


 Concept –

This magazine is meant to be the latest guide that will update people living in North London on the new jazz music and local jazz artists in North London. All articles will be about new and unplugged artists and their music. The magazine will be published once a week in most stores in North London on a Wednesday every week. The magazine will be £2.50 per copy to buy in the stores. This is a decent price as it isn’t too expensive so people will be able to afford it and it isn’t too cheap either. 'Jazz Times' focuses mainly on new jazz artists that are being discovered in North London and are performing in the local places such as the round house in Camden and local bars and pubs. Every week the magazine will include a double page spread of an interview with one of the latest local jazz artists in North London. 



Why call it ‘Jazz Times’ (North London edition)?
I have named my magazine ‘Jazz Times’ because it is a catchy and a memorable name. It also makes sense as the magazine is only about jazz music. Whilst researching jazz music in North London I found that there are so many artists that perform locally and so many that want to perform and be discovered that the name of our magazine just seemed to fit perfectly.

Software
To create my magazine front cover and my double page spread i will need lots of different software programming such as photoshop, laptops, cameras, tripods and so on. Photoshop is the main programme that we used to ensure that our front cover and double page spread looked as realistic and detailed as possible. 

Equipment 
We also used a lot of different equipment such as  cameras, tripods, portable lights for cameras, and any props that were used during our photoshoots. Firstly we have to get permission from the media department to allow us to use their cameras, tripods and lights to take the best photos as possible. I also had to get permission from the music department at JCoSS, to allow us to borrow some microphones, a trumpet, and microphone stand and even the stage that we used for our photoshoot. Once we got this permission it allowed us to crete a photoshoot and take the most believable and realistic photos as possible for our magazine.

Job roles and responsibilities 
There are so many different job roles and responsibilities within the process of creating media products. There are photographers, editors, journalist, publisher, models, art editor and so on. All of the job roles have a huge impact towards creating a magazine. Each different job role has a different responsibility.  For example, the journalists main responsibilities is to write the double page spread interview or article and to make it to the best that it could be.

Assets -
One of our main assets was the space that we did our photoshoot in. Our photoshoot took place in the multi purpose hall in JCoSS. We were lucky enough to have a free space that we had permission to use and luckily did not have to hire out a space or pay any money for a space to take pictures in. 

Appearance
My magazines colour scheme is red, black, and white. I have chosen these colours because my main target audience is young and middle aged adults. These colours are suitable for both men and women and all types of ages. Also, the colour red is a bright and eye catching colour. On the front cover of the magazine I am going to have a new jazz artist or band that are becoming bigger in North London.
The colours do aim towards a unisex theme because of the neutral colours black and white. The colour red can connotate many things such as love, danger, anger, passion and so on. These things and emotions can be felt whilst listening and singing jazz music.
This image is the title and masthead of my magazine. I created this because it matches perfectly with my colour scheme as has the title of magazine underneath in a jazzy font. I chose this type of logo because I want my magazine to be able to be identified as soon as the logo is seen. It is simple yet so exciting and is an easy logo to identify. The musical instruments and the microphone symbolizes the idea of a jazz magazine as a whole. The magazines idea is about finding new jazz artists and getting middle aged adults out of their comfort zones and into new events and meeting new people.


'Jazz Times’ will have 3 main sections to the magazine. These 3 sections are:
Section 1: Newest jazz artists and bands
Section 2: Local events
Section 3: New discovered jazz artists and their stories on how they got there.

Each section of the magazine, the pages will be a different colour so that the people reading the magazines can identify what section they are reading and will make it easier to find the start of each section. Section 1 the pages will be white, Section 2 the pages will be red and section 3 the pages will be black. I am only using these 3 colours as it is simple and they are my 3 colours of my colour scheme. Our magazine will be printed on a glossy paper that looks presentable, smart and new. The look of the magazine is genuinely going to be quite modern and smart as it is going to be sold in most new agents and shops in North London and will be on show, being seen by people all the time.


Funding of the magazine –
The magazine is going to be funded by the any advertisement that the company, which relate to the magazine. For example, certain recording studios will advertise for us and any other events that promote jazz music. Other advertisement we have inside our magazine is for concerts and events that are happening in North London. Also, local restaurants/jazz and music lounges and bar and even any clothing shops such as Fenwicks and stores middle age adults would be seen in. These sponsors and advertisement will help us pay for the magazine and any extras that are needed to make the magazine as popular as possible. Our target audience is likely to enjoy reading about the companies that they are likely to go and shop. 

Distribution methods -
Music stores such as 'The Arts cafe' which is based in Enfield will sell copies of our magazines and we will promote their stores inside our magazine. We do this because people that walk into the music store are likely to be interested in music and therefore will want to read about new music that is going on in where they live.  As our target  audience is a middle age range we will have copies placed around in work environments such as offices, shops, staff rooms and waiting rooms. We will leave copies in these areas so that middle ages people catch a glimpse of our magazine and therefor it will become more popular within our target age group. Also a good way to distribute our magazine is too hand our free copies at large venues/events e.g. concerts. This is a good way to advertise our magazine because as well as our target audience there will be a wide range of people which is more likely to spread around that there is a new magazine. Also the fact they would be free copies will make it more likely for people to stop and take one rather than have to stop and take money out which they may not actually want to spend. However this could be bad for our magazine at first as it won't be taking any profit in, but in the long run it may have given us many more readers and made our magazine ten times more popular and more money. We also have our weekly subscriptions. This is when people subscribe to us weekly and a copy of our magazine will get sent to their homes every week or emailed a copy of our magazine.
 






Audience –

Primary target audience – Our primary target audience is middle age people aged 30-40.
This is specifically our target audience because they are in the middle of their lives and a lot of the time people of this age need to meet new people out of their comfort zones and go to new places rather than sitting at home.
This age group can also be too picky on what music they are listening to and just want to make new experiences and have as much fun as possible, which is what our aim is.
Within this age group, there is such a wide range of personalities and interests that meeting new people could be easy!
We hope that with this age group that if they enjoy reading us they would suggest to their friends and family.

Secondary target audience – Our secondary target audience is younger adults aged 20-30.
This is because our magazine is mainly directed at more middle aged adults. This age group is harder as they are middle aged and a lot of people in this age group enjoy listening to a wide range of music genres. This age group is harder to please as they are a lot pickier and may not be interested in as many things in a music magazine.

Our idea and goal is generally for anyone who enjoys jazz music to be able to pick up the magazine and be able to enjoy reading it whether they are male or female. We want to get people of this age out of their comfort zones and to start attending new events and concerts.


Research –


Situation –
'Jazz times’ felt as if there aren’t many music magazines, which cover just a certain genre. There are also not many magazines in North London that is based on new jazz artists in the area, and there are not enough magazines on certain genres such as jazz. Any article in the magazine will be about new artists that have been discovered, or about a jazz artist that has become more popular in North London. 'Jazz Times' will also give advice and tips on what jazz music is good and what the best events are around town. Many people are interested in music but just don’t know what to listen to. Our magazine is the perfect guide on what to listen to! We are very different to any other music magazine because we are not doing the magazine to write about famous jazz artists, we are doing it to help people discover if they enjoy listening to jazz music and to tell people who the latest jazz artists and bands in North London are. We also have advertisement in our magazine usually on skin products and good restaurants in north London. We put ads like this in because it is what middle aged people may like to read about and, attend and buy from. we can also give good advice on tips for middle aged people on what to buy and even what to wear to keep up with the latest fashions and trends.


Strengths –
One of our strengths is that we give advice on what jazz events we think that people should attend. We also give good advice on who we think they should listen to as we aim to write about the newly discovered artists. Few magazines give advice and tips on who to listen to and where to go, they just state information about famous artists themselves. We also have a blog online, which enables are readers to blog and tell us what they have enjoyed reading about and what they have not enjoyed. It gives our readers a chance to talk to each other online and ask us any questions that they want to ask. Our magazine is sold at £2.50 per copy, which is a strength because it is a reasonable price for most people to buy. In the advertisement inside our magazine we often include free skin/perfume samples just as a little extra for those reading our magazine.


Weaknesses –
As a new magazine, we do not have much popularity yet and we aren’t very well known. Hopefully as time goes on we will eventually gain more readers and lovers of the magazine. A lot of people especially our target audience do prefer to read magazines online, however we do not have an online addition set up yet, but are planning to create one as our magazine become more popular. Our magazines hope and aims will hopefully work and come true so that we become a successful magazine.



Opportunities –
We are hoping that when our magazine becomes more popular we will have many people subscribing to us, which will enable them to get a weekly copy of our magazine sent to their homes. There are opportunities such as meeting new people, going to new events. Our magazine will offer these opportunities because these things is what our magazine wants to encourage people to do.


Competition –
There are a lot of other music magazines that generally cover all genres of music whereas we just cover one genre. This is a big competition because magazines such as Q and vibe are very well known and popular. These magazines talk about global stars and events whereas we write about new faces and new events in north London. This shouldn’t be too much of an issue for our magazine because we target for a wide age group who live in north London and love music.


Q magazine is the UKs biggest music magazine. They feature all the biggest stars and write about the top 40 UK and all the biggest events around the world. They are a UK based magazine however focus on all kinds of famous people ‘Q’ magazine is the main competition because they are the biggest and most popular music magazine around and they focus on all genres and celebrity icons.





Vibe is another popular music magazine however they are not much threat to pop weekly. Our target audience is a wide age group meaning 'vibe' may be competition for some of our readers but for others they may not even know what 'vibe' magazine is.















Image result for EN magazine





EN magazine is one of the local magazines that could be a potential competitor. This is because they already have a large group of readers and have got  wide range of articles that they write about. They also target towards middle aged people and that is who we are trying to target towards to reads 'Jazz Times'.








Marketing plan –
  1. Marketing statement
  2. Marketing objective
  3. Marketing strategy 


1. Marketing Statement –
'Jazz Times’ aim is to be committed to their target audience. This means that they want to be committed to the all middle-aged people that are going to be reading the magazine. 'Jazz Times’ want to help and give advice to people on what good jazz music is around to listen to in North London. Our main intention is to be easily accessible, easy and enjoyable to read and so that people find new places to go and new people to meet. We want our weekly magazine to become more popular and for our readership to keep growing and getting bigger. Our goal is for our target audience to find new music and for any artists that want to get somewhere, for them to come out of their comfort zones and get themselves into the public eye showing off their talent.


2. Marketing objective –
Our marketing objective is for thousands of middle aged people buying our magazine weekly. There are many other magazines and music magazines and guides out there, however there aren’t many on new jazz music alone in North London. We want to be able to discover and we want to meet our target audience’s needs and want them to meet new friends and go to new places.


Main objective: To have a page that is dedicated to new people living in North London that want to share their talents.
To accomplish this objective, we will need to gain more readers and have many weekly subscribers. We will also start creating merchandise such as t-shirts, wristbands, mug’s, and posters promoting our magazine and new artists that we have found. Also at any concerts and events that we advertise we will sell our t-shirts and wristbands there.



Marketing strategy –
Our marketing strategy is that we think of about our readers and think about what they would enjoy reading and would like to see inside our magazine. We also intend to create a face book campaign, which will promote our magazine and hopefully making it more popular. Facebook is the most popular social media app and thousands of people use it including our target audience, the wide variety of middle aged people. Stacks of our magazine will be placed in places like restaurants, spas, sport clubs and places that middle-aged males and females are likely to be spotted. They will also be sold in news agents, petrol stations and all typical places that magazines are sold.


Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Task 1 - Sample materials to support proposal



These are rough plans of what i want my magazine to look like. I tried to make them as similar as possible to my magazine and double page spread.

The bottom two are templates of my magazine and double page spread to base where i am going to place everything. 

Monday, 27 February 2017

Task 2 - Plan and develop pre-production materials (P3, M2)

Learning outcome 2: Be able to plan and develop pre-production materials for an original media product to a client brief. 



Moodboard



Task 2 - Location Recce

Location permission form-

Prepared by: Hannah Star

Location details: JCoSS (jewish community secondary school) in the MPH (multi-purpose hall)

(Location address): Castle wood Road, New Barnet EN4 9GE

Shoot Purpose: Main image for magazine front cover and Double page spread main images and smaller images

On (date): Thursday 9th March 2017 
Image result for jcoss main hall


















Site address - Castle wood Road, New Barnet EN4 9GE

Contact number - 02083442220

Access - We had access to anywhere in the school as we are students and attend Jcoss. We used the MPH which is the main multi purpose hall with a big space and a stage.

Permissions - 

Availability - 2 hours on 9th March 2017

Lighting - Main lights

Space- MPH (multi purpose hall)

Suitability - We made sure that the hall was suitable for a performance and that it was available for the times that we needed to do a performance and photoshoot.

Possible shots - Band performing on stage, close ups and medium shots.

Safety issues - 
Falling off of the stage
Dropping microphone or musical instruments
Tripping up over possible wires



PRINT NAME: HANNAH STAR

DATE TODAY: 1st March 2017 


Sunday, 26 February 2017

Task 2 - Risk assessment

RISK ASSESSMENT
NAME OF ADDRESS OF ASSESOR: Hannah Jade Star
LOCATION ADDRESS: Saskia Courtney's summer house 39 Windmill lade WD23 1NB

Date of assessment: Tuesday 28th February 2017

RISK DESCRIPTIONS-

Water spillages: Someone spilling water and not cleaning it up, which can cause someone to slip and hurt them-selves.
Severity: (4/5)
Prevention of risk: Make sure the area has got ‘wet floor’ signs so that models and people on set are aware of any danger hazards. Make sure there are people there who can clean up the water that has been spilt.

Accidental trips and slips- Tripping over any loose cables, props and makeup that may be on the floor on set. This can cause people to trip and hurt themselves.
Severity: (4/5)
Prevention of risk: Move the items or cables off from the floor and into a safe place where it wont harm any ones safety and if it is not possible to move the items, make everyone on set aware that they are there.

Heights – Any heights that people or models may be able to climb, make sure that these things are stable and safe to walk on.
Severity: (3/5)
Prevention of risk: Making sure that everyone on set knows all the risks that are possible and everything to limit the risks have been put in place.


Electrical issues – Any light, smoke or open wire can be a big risk and can cause electric shocks.
Severity: (2/5) this is unlikely to happen but all electrics have to be fully checked before using on set.
Prevention to risk: Making sure that all electrics have been check before using the set. Also pre check the whole set before using it, making sure that all electricity is safe.


Recording equipment: During a photo shoot there are many models on set, which means all people on set have to be aware of all recording equipment that is around them.
Severity: (2/5)
Prevention of risk: Just making sure that all models are aware of what is around them. x


task 2 - Production Schedule


Saturday, 25 February 2017

Task 2 - Font ideas


I have chosen the middle font as my final font. I have chosen this exact one because the style of the writing is quite flowy and jazzy however it is also smart and bold. It is an eye catching style and colour. The 'North London' underneath jazz times is black because it shows that it is the 'Jazz times' magazine but the North London edition. The style of the font is actually called 'JAZZ SOUND'

Colour Scheme -
My colour scheme is red, black and white. I have chosen these colours because I feel like firstly the colour red fits in with the genre red perfectly. It is a bright and bold colour which is very noticeable and eye catching. The black and white are simple colours and just go well with red. I want my magazine to look smart and presentable and I think that these colours are the best colours to do so.

Task 2 - Call Sheet


Friday, 24 February 2017

Task 2 - Legal and Ethical issues (P3, M2)

Public Liability -
When out filming in public, public liability insurance is needed because there may be an event that a mistake is made which causes an injury to a member of the public or damages their property. I am going to ensure that i have public liability insurance so that there will be no issue when we are filming or taking photos in public.

Copyright and trademarks -
Copyright is protecting things that are created by a person and that person has invested time, money and skill into this product. Most published work will have a written permission of the copyright holder. This law is to protect an individual persons work/articles. I am going to make sure my magazine front cover and everything inside has  copyright so that nobody can copy the work of my magazine. 

Ethical issues -
Are moral principles that can define how a person or group acts. These include trust, liability, truth, privacy and serving the publics best interests.


The sales of good act 1979


The Sale of good act 1979 requires all goods to be described as satisfactory quality and fit for purpose and use. This means they can be used for everyday purpose and any purpose that was agreed with the seller.

ASA – Advertising regulatory system
The UK advertising regulatory system is a mixture of:
  • Self-regulation for non-broadcast advertising
  • Co-regulation for broadcast advertising

All rules are enforced by the ASA.
ASA guidelines stands for the Advertising standards authority. They are the UK’s independent regulator for advertising across all media. There work includes acting on complaints and checking the media to take action against misleading, harmful or offensive advertisement, sales promotions and direct marketing. Each year they consider 30,000 complaints and 20,000 adverts.

For any advertisement that is inside my magazine is going to be approved by the ASA too ensure that the guidelines and standards are met. 



Trades description act 1968 –
This act makes it an offense for a trader to make wrong statements about goods or services. It is an offence to:
  • Apply a false trade description to any goods
  • Supply or offer to supply any goods to which a false trade description has been applied
  • Make certain kinds of false statement about the provision of any services, facilities or accommodation


Standards –
UK standards are regulated by the BSI (British Standards Institution). Any products that meet this standard can then be marked with the KiteMark.
There are separate standards for the European union.




Thursday, 23 February 2017

Task 3 - Create Production Materials

Learning outcome 3: Be able to create production materials for an original media product to a client brief (P4), (M3)



Magazine Front cover template:




Double page spread template



Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Task 3 - photoshoot






I took photos of my band. I have narrowed it down to these 7 pictures out of the 40 i took. I am planning on taking another photo of Lauren so that i have even coverage of all the band members. I also am going to edit and crop all of these photos so that they are brighter and sharper.  For my front cover i am planning on using one of the pictures from the photoshoot against the brick wall. I may add some colour to the bricks or the wall and am going to edit the pictures to make their skin more tanned.