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Music Magazine Textual Analysis #3

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Music Magazine Textual Analysis #2

Music Magazine Textual Analysis #1

Media Pack for Uncut Magazine - Research

http://www.slideshare.net/charlie17morris/uncut-media-pack-27921016?from_action=save

This is the media pack for Uncut magazine. This is a document that would be obtained by businesses if they where to place a piece in the magazine. It gives information about pricing and who the magazine reaches. This is of interest to me as it allows for an insight into the workings of a real magazine and how the market themselves and the interest they receive. 

Sixth Form Magazine

Frony Cover Textual Analysis

Media - The basics book - Chapter 2

5 Things I have learnt: 

- Mis-en-scene = Created through the use of costumes, props, sounds and the performance of the actor - a complete package.

- Genre + Is a category of media that can be identified by the conventions used.

- There are different types of signifiers:

    - Settings

    - Objects 

    - Costumes

    - Apperance 

    - Lighting

    - Sound
- Spectatorship = How we receive films is affected by our social and political background. 
-  Signifier = A real physical object. 
- Signified = The deeper meaning behind the object.

Media - The Basics Book - Chapter 1

Things I have learnt from this: 
- Media only became an academic subject that allowed you to gain a qualification in the 1960's.
-  Post Modernism - there is nothing new in the media, everything has been done before 
Media Theories: 
- Textual Deconstruction 
- Ideology
- Identity
- Creativity
- Audience
All of these can be used to help understand a piece of media and allow us to analyse it effectively. 
- Media is the study of how people, media and society have a close relationship and are majorly affected by one another. 
Discourses:
- Powerful Media 
- Economic
- Literacy 
- Demand for TV is in decline due to people being able to stream and watch exactly what programme they want on the internet and display it on a full size TV screen people no longer have as much of a need to have a 'black box' 

Media Related Articles

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/20/youth-subcultures-where-have-they-gone

Youth Sub Culture
- Teenagers now care much more about their online presence and identity than their real life interests.
- Teenagers used to show their music taste by wearing clothes that put them into a group of people who also had the same taste. Now due to charts many teenagers wear similar clothes and listen to similar music.
- There is now a very limited amount of people that show their taste of music by what they wear and how they act, some examples of these are Emos. 
- In the past people had to make an investment to listen to the music - as they had to buy a physical copy, whereas now it can just be streamed so youths are much less dedicated to their choice of music as they don't have money invested in it.
- When people wanted to get their group exposure it would take ages to gain any, for example Punks. Whereas now through the use of social media people can gain exposure within days, an example of this is Seapunk.


http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/nme-and-the-death-of-the-music-press/14695#.WACV2ZMrLoy

Death of the Music Press
- Due to the online music charts teenagers now have no need to buy music magazines.
- The limited amount of music press that is still sold isn't aimed at youths anymore but older adults around the age of 40. 
- People don't want to spend money on music magazines anymore to read reviews because they can get the same content online for free.
- Lots of big music publication editors started writing for NME, which has now collapsed to only around 20,000 copies sold per week.
- From the 70's to 90's music publications sold over a million copies per week - it was a part of normal life to consume some music media on a regular basis.

Flat Plan for 6th Form Magazine front cover

Feedback on Second Textual Analysis

What applications should I use for my Sixth Form Magazine?

Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

The three applications I will use to design my magazine are all from the vast range offered by Adobe. The first of which I will use is photoshop to edit the images that I take. This is due to it allowing me to retouch images to remove any imperfections from the face of my models. In addition to this I will be able to adjust the colours of photos to make them look more vibrant. 

After this I will use Illustrator, the reason for this is it will allow me to create icons and text easily and add a wide range of effects to this. This will be useful for the masthead and other text on the front page. 

The final app I will be using is InDesign, this is desktop publishing software and is where my magazine page will be assembled with my images, text and any other assets. It will allow me to carefully choose the layout due to the use of layers. 

Third Textual Analysis

This is my third Textual Analysis of a Sixth form Magazine, using the CHS Magazine.

Second Textual Analysis

This is my second Textual Analysis of a Sixth form Magazine. This time using 'The First' Magazine.