Magazine Deconstruction

Risk Assessment

Photo-shoot risk assessment

Risk	How I will prevent it
Flash harming models eyes	Make sure it is off when possible and ensure model is prepared for it
Model tripping over and harming their self	Make sure the model is aware of the surroundings and nothing is needlessly lying about on the floor
Damage of equipment	Make sure all equipment is used correctly and is not in danger at anytime constantly checking up on it
Exterior interruption of photo-shoot (e.g. Public walking in while photo-shoot is taking place)	Mark of the area photo-shoot is taking place and put up a sign showing it is in progress
Location for photo-shoot is double booked	Make sure I have multiple options for where I can take my photos

Mise en scene research

To find a form of mise en scene within this genre I looked at some pictures of comedic artists and some album covers. I found that most of the pictures were parodying a style of another genre or artist, an example of this would be a Lonely Island album cover featuring the group dramtically staring in the same direction as they stood in an orderly line. Some of these photos will feature the artist looking in a serious manner but doing something that negates that an example of this is an Axis of Awesome picture featuring the group staring into the camera wearing party hats.

Editors Note

Hey there readers

Welcome to the first edition of Lemonade magazine. Hopefully we will provide you with you with an entertaining experience with all the information you think you can handle. As we focus on comedy music within this magazine we will try to highlight new and upcoming acts in the genre but from time to time you will see artists you recognise well such as The Midnight Beast and The Lonely Island.

We hope that our readers (that means you!) will interact with us and others of you through our social networks sites which you can find in the back of this issue, don't forget to check those out!

Enjoy this first issue we certainly enjoyed making it.

Sam - magazine editor

Pitching my magazine

Dear Bauer Media

I am giving you the opportunity to become part of a new type of magazine that I believe will become considerably successful.

My new magazine 'Lemonade' is a comedy music magazine. This genre of music has never been given the opportunity for a magazine and while it becomes increasingly popular this is a great time to break into this medium with the genre. With articles about new and popular comedy music I hope to attract an audience of young adults, while the magazine is accessible to people of an age older than this.

I have approached you to publish my magazine because there is a big gap in the market for a magazine like this and with a large publisher like you the magazine will be able to reach shops across the nation and reach a great number of people who are likely to read the magazine.

My aims for the magazine are to inform the audience about things that are going on within the world of comedy music while helping artists get a bigger presence in the industry. On top of all of this the main aim for the magazine is to entertain the reader as that is what the people who are listening to comedy music are looking for. The readers will have the chance to interact with us through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter and hopefully extracts of interviews with artists in the genre on Youtube.

I feel very strongly that if you take an interest in publishing this magazine we can become very successful breaking into this new category of music magazine, and look forward to hearing a response.

Kind Regards,
Sam Woodward

Music Magazine Publishers

Who is my audience?

What is an audience?

The dictionary definition of audience is:  the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public: Some works of music have a wide and varied audience.

An audience can be split into two separate categories passive and active. The passive audience will just take what the text they are being given and take in the information. The active audience will take this information and act upon it by getting involved this could be something like taking to a forum site to express an opinion on the text they have taken in.

My magazine audience

The audience of my magazine has proven to be active as I have had response from a survey post. I already know that the audience of the magazine is late teens and above so I will try to make it as accessible for as many people from that age range as I can.

How will this information help me?

From this information I now know that I should include sections in the magazine that give the audience a chance to interact with me or other readers. Also in the survey I asked what colours people thought would represent comedy music best and I received these results: Red, yellow, pink, green, purple, orange and blue. This shows that the audience thinks the magazine should feature bright colours for a comedy music magazine and I will keep this in mind for the house style/mise en scene for the magazine.

Chosen Genre

The music magazine genre I have chosen to do is Comedy. There is not any magazines of this genre currently in production so I am free to create my own mise en scene for the magazine. I have composed a mind map containing some of the features of comedy music.

Comedy music research (parody)

I had trouble uploading the powerpoint with this research so I screen shotted the slides, which I will present on this post.

Genre research powerpoint

Main Task Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.


1) What are you being asked to do? Write or record, what you think this means.

I am being asked to produce a completely new music magazine, this means that it will be the first issue produced. The magazine has to be completely original so I cannot use any text or images found elsewhere and everything has to be produced by myself. The music magazine is going to have to be of a specific genre and the layout of the magazine will connote this genre.

2) What are the criteria for this (what MUST you do)?

To produce my music magazine I must make a front page, contents and a double page spread. Within this I must use a minimum of four of my own images.

3) What are you not allowed to do?

I am not allowed to use anything that is not my own work this means that all the images and text must be produced by myself.

4) What do you think is going to be involved in doing this?

I think this is going to involve researching a genre of music magazine. It will also involve using Photoshop to produce the best quality pictures and create the pages professional. I also think at the end this is going to involve evaluating my work.

School magazine preliminary task

School magazine from samwoodward123

5 pics for media

Poster Deconsturction

Poster to deconstruct