Select and Deselect

I have taken some images to go onto my blog and i may also need to take some more as i feel that the images i have taken are all very similar and i must experiment more with my models and props. With the images that i have got i have made a select and deselect image, this is where it shows which images i will be using, could possibly use and which images i'm not going to use in my magazine.  

Moodboard

As part of my magazine research I put together a moodboard to help generate ideas that I would want to put on my magazine. I put lots of different pictures and key words to trigger thoughts of what my magazine could look like. My moodboard is in sections so that it is easy to see that I have made connections through most of my images that I have found. This is my moodboard that I created in order to get idea on how my jazz magazine could be created in order to look professional and appeal to my niche target audience: 

 Although my magazine is to do with jazz music, the way that the models look is important as you need to make sure that the magazine looks professional so you would want the artist/bands look like they are jazz players. The important thing is that I DON’T make my magazine look like a fashion magazine so I need to make sure everything is jazz related.

I have put pictures of suits/hair/make-up on my magazine as those images are the style that I want to inspire my models to look like so that my magazine will look professional like it’s a jazz music magazine. I think that the boy models that I put on my magazine should be wearing suits so that they look old fashioned, smart and jazzy. I wanted to go for an old fashioned look with both the men and women to give that jazz vibe off the magazine. From the images that I have gathered I would like my models to have big make up and big hair/curly hair this will make the models look old fashioned.

Another thing that I have in put into my moodboard is the instruments that I relate to jazz music. This is so that I can get an idea as to what instruments I might want to use in my magazine. I feel that the main instruments that you could see or hear in jazz music are piano, trumpet, saxophone, double base, trombone and others. Other thing that I would like to try and include in my magazine is an old microphone so that it looks like an older fashioned and jazz like magazine. Another thing that I incorporate with jazz is vinyl’s this is because they are old and vintage.

Something that I need to think about when doing my magazine is whether I am going to use a band or artist or both. I have put those images on my moodboard as well so that it shows the contrast of things that I may include in my magazine. Another thing that I have put on my moodboard is pictures of Michael buble. This is because he partly a jazz singer as well as doing other things such as pop. He is also quite an inspirational singer and the way that he portrays himself is important as I might be able to incorporate that into parts of my magazine so that I can use him as part of my impressions to the magazine as well as making it look more realistic. 

This images are on my moodboard and are
to represent the different types of angles
that i could use in my magazine.

Another angle which i find
would look good on
my magazine.

The angles of the images are important as I want to make my magazine look professional. On my moodboard I have added different images that show different angles to the artist that is being shown in the image, this is so that I can get a bigger idea of how I might want the images on my magazine to look and how I should take my images so that I can make my image look professional. 

 I put words around edge of my moodboard to give myself more inspiration on what I can incorporate inside my magazine. To make the magazine look realistic I need to look at what a jazz magazine might entail inside. I also need to have an idea of what my magazine masthead is going to like. This is why I added a magazine masthead to the image to create ideas of what my jazz magazine masthead is going to be like.

This is the magazine masthead that is on my
 moodboard to try and give me inspiration.

questionnaire analysis

For part of my audience research in the process of making my jazz music magazine I made 3 different  questionnaires so that I could find out information on what my target market likes. I asked 3 lots of 10 questions so  could find out a lot of information on what my target audience is.

For my first questionnaire I asked a ranger of questions that would help me to find my audience and get to know more about them. The first 3 question that I asked (Figure 1,2 & 3) was asked so that I could find out my main target audiences and how far people would be willing to go to get a magazine. I also wanted to know where people mainly shop for a magazine so that I would know where to put more of my magazines. This is why I asked question four (figure 4). I then went on to talk about social networking sights as I feel it is important that when making a magazine you know which social networking sights they go on so you can find out advertising. The first question asked was if my audience used social network sights (Figure 5) the reason that I asked this is so that I know what my target audience likes, I then went on to ask how many times a day do they use a social networking sight (Figure 6) I feel that this is important as you need to know roughly how often the ad needs to be show. The last question that I asked about social networking sights was which one did they use the most (Figure 7). With this question they could only tick one as I wanted to know which social network sight my audience used the most so I could use it for advertising. The next question I went on to ask was to do with were they shop (figure 8) the reason that I wrote this question was because the next question (Figure 9) was a follow up question that asked if the way they dress from those shops is influenced by the music they listen to. It is important that I find this out because I need to know if the clothes that my models wear are important or if they can wear anything because it wont matter to the reader. My last question (Figure 10) asked what type of music they listened to as you can listen to more than one genre and I needed to know whether I needed to try an widen my audience

For the second questionnaire I wanted to find out more about my audience. The first question that I asked is show in Figure 1. the reason I asked this question is so that I could find out what TV my audience likes the most so then I would know where I need to advertise my magazine. I then when on to ask another question (Figure 2) this question was important as it asked how often my audience watched TV. I need to know this so that if I was to advertise my magazine I would know how many times I would need to put my magazine advert a day. I also needed to now what channels they watched (Figure 3 – question 3) so that I would know what channels to put the advertisement on. The 4th question was to do with colours (Figure 4) it is important that  find out what colour people associate with jazz magazines as that’s the genre I am making my magazine as and I would need to know what colour people would think would suit this. I also needed to know whether the colour scheme would influence someone to buy a magazine so I knew whether it was really important or not. This is why I wrote (Figure 5) so that I could find out whether people notice the colour scheme a lot. (Figure 6 & 7) was to do with hairstyles. The first question asked what their hairstyle is and their second question asked was this influenced by the music you listen to. I felt like these questions were important as I wanted to know whether I needed to make my models hairstyles to suit the music genre or not. The last 3 questions (Figure 8,9 & 10) were to do with there hobbies, its important that you find out everything about your audience so you know how important music is to them. The reason for asking about their hobbies and whether it related to their preferred music genre is so that I knew how important music was to my audience.

The last questionnaire I wrote was more to do with magazines and what my audience would like to see in this magazine. The first question that I asked was about price (figure 1) the reason I asked about price is because you want to know how much your audience is willing to pay for a magazine as I don’t want to over price my magazine. The next 2 questions (Figure 2 & 3) was about the USP (unique selling point) on a magazine. The first question was asking if they would want a USP on the magazine and the next question asked was what USP would they like to see. I want to know what people like to see on a USP so I get an idea of what I could use on mine. (Figure 4) was talking about online magazines as I want to know whether an online magazine is beneficial to my audience. The 5th question that I asked was if you would subscribe to a magazine. I want to know this so that I can find out if subscribing is beneficial to my customers. Question 6 (Figure 6) is a question that still related to subscription as I wanted to know whether people would subscribe online or on paper more so that way I would know which is the best method for my magazine. Question 7 (Figure 7) was to do with the front cover and whether a band or artist on the front would make you want to buy a magazine more. I asked this question so that I could find out whether having a band or artist on the front was better so that I could think about my layout of the magazine and what could possibly go in the magazine. The last 3 questions (Figure 8,9 &10) were more personal and were about my audience as I wanted to know a little bit more about them. I asked whether they play/played an instrument or not and whether that instrument was an influence to their music. I feel it important that I know what influences people to listen to the music they listen to as it will help make my magazine.