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                                                           Interactivity

Interactivity is very important for my magazine as it will increase the likeability factor, in the research i have done. The magazines with more forms of interactivity on average have more readers and 'subscribers' i will use twitter and facebook as a mode of interactivity for my fans. this will allow fans to tweet, message and tag my magazines account in pictures and also videos.

Contents page from my school magazine that i uploaded for my first post in september 2013

Logo

I have changed the primary colour from a draker green to a slightly lighter grey. I have done this because in my reader profile my aim was to make the background of the logo stand out and be noticed as oppose to my magazine cover where i would prefer my logo to be a much less noticed colour. Magazines such as kerrang and Empire also modify their titles depending on their weekly edition of the magazine. i have applied this tactic to my title by using the colour pick tool to take the colour from my front cover models clothing to use on my logo.

What am i doing?

Currently i am in the process of creating my front cover for my magazine, i have added in my logo, background image and a few other images in. Along with some more writing all i need to do i sharpen up my general layout e.g re organise my page to increase the likeablity and readability factor. Of course i am listening to my trusty headphones aswell to gain some inspiration.

Problem?

quite a few of my pictures i have taken in the past week were deemed un usable once i returned to the computer, see many of the pictures has the sun pointing in the wrong direction. as you can see the faces are not recognised by the camera due to the sunlight and the picture is well.... lets just call it not useable.

Uses and gratifications

I have looked at magazines such as Q and NME in the past week, Blulmer and Katz suggested people use the media to satisfy their needs. This is called the four needs theory. It has four main parts... 1.Escape and diversion from everyday life. 2.Surveilance and information 3.Personal relationships 4.Personal identity All 4 of these uses and gratifications are shown inside Q and NME, these 4 main parts can be portrayed in many different ways such as interviews and reviews, i will be looking at many different ways of portraying these 4 main parts to use in my magazine.

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 16 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV and usually shortened to H. Bauer. Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week. History Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by four generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house, The Bauer Publishing Group has grown into a worldwide publishing and media company. The Bauer Publishing Group comprises 300 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as well as TV and radio stations. Bauer started in the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987 and as H. Bauer Publishing became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap Radio in 2008 to become the UK's biggest publishing group. The group acquired Australia's largest magazine publisher, ACP Magazines from private equity firm, CVC in 2012, increasing the company’s value to more than €2 billion The company trades as H Bauer Publishing - MD David Goodchild, and Bauer Consumer Media - CE Paul Keenan. H Bauer Publishing Brands H Bauer brands include women's weekly and TV listings magazines; namely Bella, Take a Break, that's life! TVChoice and Total TVGuide as well as a number of puzzle magazines.

Bella In 1987 Bella was H Bauer's first venture into publishing in the UK. Bella sought to make an impact in the UK magazine market by mixing previously unseen real-life editorial with the classic elements more traditionally associated with women's magazines such as fashion and beauty, cookery and practical home features. Take a Break and that's life! In 1990, H Bauer gained attention with the launch of Take a Break magazine. Take a Break sits in the true life market of the women's weekly sector and quickly became market leader with an ABC audited circulation of over one million sales. Up until 2005 there were only three women's magazines dedicated to delivering true life editorial, one of which was H Bauer's sister title, that's life! (launched in 1995). Since then the sector has become increasingly competitive with a series of high profile launches that saw the number of titles in the market expand to seven magazines all fighting for market share. Take a Break has retained its lead position in the market, and a number of brand extensions have seen H Bauer's business expand to include puzzle magazines that carry the Take a Break name. TV listings titles 1991 saw H Bauer's first foray into TV listings publishing with the launch of TVQuick magazine. (Prior to the deregulation of TV listings in March 1991, BBC listings had been restricted by law to Radio Times and ITV/Channel 4 listings to TVTimes.) TVQuick ceased publication in July 2010.

 In 1999 H. Bauer launched TVChoice at a much lower price point than other titles on the market. TVChoice overtook its main competitor in the February 2008 audited ABCs and has been the number one weekly newsstand magazine in the UK ever since. In September 2003, H Bauer launched Total TVGuide to cover the increasing number of programmes available on Freeview and satellite or cable services. Bauer Media Brands Q Q started out as a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Originally it was to be called Cue (named after the act of cueing a record to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth felt the music press of the time ignored a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology — from artists such as Paul Simon, Level 42, and Dire Straits. Modeled after Rolling Stone, Q was first published in 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing, with an emphasis on style. The Q music brand has expanded to Radio and Television, with Q Radio and Q TV being music entertainment that specialises in indie, rock and alternative. Q also holds annual music awards in the UK, known as Q Awards. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's biggest and best publicized music awards, helped in no small part by the often boisterous behaviour of the celebrities who attend the event.

In spring 2010, Bauer caused controversy with its attempt to unilaterally impose a new contract on all photographers and writers, which takes away their copyright and off-loads liability for libel or copyright infringement from the publisher onto the contributor. 200 photographers and writers from Q and Bauer's other music magazines, Kerrang! and MOJO were reported as refusing to work under the new terms. Kerrang! Kerrang! is a brand that specialises in Rock Music.[citation needed] It originally began as a magazine and in 2004 Kerrang Radio was launced. A Kerrang TV channel also exists and as of 2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from their playlist. Box Television Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4. Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels, which include: 4Music The Box Heat Kerrang! Kiss Magic Smash Hits Offices Bauer Verlagsgruppe has offices located all over the world, they are located in the following countries: Germany USA Spain France Austria Poland Portugal Romania Hungary Czech Republic Mexico China Russia Slovakia United Kingdom Nigeria Australia

IPC media

IPC media Ltd IPC Media Ltd (formerly International Publishing Corporation), a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Origins The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, George Newnes Publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace. Fleetway In 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of a newspaper group which included the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial (now the Sunday Mirror), together with provincial chain West of England Newspapers, made an offer for Amalgamated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he was appointed its chairman. Within a few months he changed its name to Fleetway Publications, Ltd. after the name of its headquarters, Fleetway House in London's Farringdon Street. Shortly thereafter, Odhams Press absorbed both George Newnes and the Hulton Press. King saw an opportunity in this to rationalise the overcrowded women's magazine market, in which Fleetway and Newnes were the major competitors, and made a bid for Odhams on behalf of Fleetway that was too attractive to ignore. Fleetway took over Odhams in March 1961. International Publishing Corporation In consequence, King controlled publishing interests which included two national daily and two national Sunday newspapers (the newspaper interests being informally tagged The Mirror Group), along with almost one hundred consumer magazines, more than two hundred trade and technical periodicals, and various book publishing interests. This included the combined business interests of Fleetway, Odhams, and Newnes. All of the companies involved had been acquired without any significant change in management, save for the appointment of Mirror Group directors as chairmen.

 In 1963 all the companies were combined by the creation of a parent (or "holding") company called the International Publishing Corporation (known informally as IPC). All of the existing companies would continue to exist, but as IPC subsidiaries. Reorganization IPC then set up a management development department in 1965, to rationalise its holdings, so that its various subsidiaries would no longer be in competition with each other for the same markets. This led to a reorganisation of the Group, in 1968, into six divisions: IPC Newspapers — including The People and The Sun (soon sold), as well as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial IPC Magazines — consumer magazines and comics IPC Trade and Technical — specialist magazines (later known as IPC Business Press Ltd.) IPC Books — all book publishing (headed by Paul Hamlyn, whose own company had been acquired by IPC). IPC Printing — all non-newspaper printing operations (headed by Arnold Quick, whose own company had also been acquired by IPC). IPC New Products — launching pad for products which used new technology (headed by Alistair McIntosh). All the divisions were headed by chairmen who originated in Mirror Group, except for Hamlyn, Quick and McIntosh. Also in 1968, a boardroom coup replaced Cecil King with his deputy chairman, Hugh Cudlipp, a former newspaper editor.

Reed International takeover Cudlipp had no interest in management, and was uneasy both with his new role and with IPC's diversification into computerised publication and other new technology. In 1969 he therefore proposed to former Mirror Group director Don Ryder, who was then chairman of the Reed Group, in which IPC had a 30% shareholding, to mount a reverse take-over of IPC by Reed. IPC-Mirror Group was thus itself taken over in 1970, by the paper-making company Albert E Reed, which then renamed itself Reed International. In 1974, part of the publishing interests of Reed International were separated into IPC Magazines Ltd (comprising the magazine and comics holdings) and Mirror Group Newspapers (comprising the newspaper holdings). The latter was sold to Pergamon Holdings Ltd, a private company owned by Robert Maxwell, in 1984. In the early 1990s IPC launched Loaded, which began a wave of "lad's mags". In 1992, following a merger with Dutch science publisher Elsevier NV, Reed International underwent a further name change, becoming Reed Elsevier. Sale of Fleetway In 1987, part of the comics holdings of IPC Magazines Ltd (comprising those comics and characters created after 1 January 1970, plus 26 specified characters from Buster, which was then still being published) were placed in a separate company, Fleetway Publications, which was sold to Pergamon Holdings. In 1991, Egmont UK purchased Fleetway from Pergamon, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions.

The latter was absorbed into the main Egmont brand by 2000, having sold off the continuing titles (such as 2000 AD), and continued with only reprint and licensed titles (e.g. Sonic The Comic). IPC had retained the other comics characters and titles, i.e. those created before 1970 (except the 26 characters from Buster), including Sexton Blake, The Steel Claw, and Battler Britton One character, Dan Dare, was sold separately and is currently owned by the Dan Dare Corporation. Time Inc. takeover In 1998 IPC Magazines Ltd was subject to a management buyout financed by Cinven, a venture capital group, and the company was renamed IPC Media. Cinven then sold the company to Time Inc., the magazine publishing subsidiary of Time Warner, in 2001. In January 2009 the company's chief executive became Evelyn Webster, replacing Sylvia Auton who had run it since 2001.

Reader profile!

This reader profile is an insight to what my readers like, just looking at my blog will give you a few ideas of what my readers dress like, and what they do in their spare time.

My results analysis

I presented my results in pie charts and bar charts as it would be easy to see clear comparisons. As you can see from my first set of reults the audience would like to see the magazine be named '#'. To maximise my like ability factor i will create my magazine as to what the fans have voted for. This will create a link between the magazine and fans. Using the reults from my questionnaire i will create my magazine based on a target audience of 19-21 year olds.Also i know from my research that people in this age barrier have jobs but do not have their own house or bills etc to worry about and therefore have more financial flexibility. From these basics i can now start to create my magazine in the weeks to come.

My questionnaire results

My magazine questionaire

Double page spreads

double page articles - slideshows

Contents pages

COntents pages - slideshow

slideshare on covers

Magazine evaluations from Creed12

Magazine prezi

My music magazine

What im going to do
 i am going to create an indie music magazine based on my own knowledge and love of indie music, i will be producing a cover page, a contents page and also a 2 page spread, i will be creating these on photoshop. my target audience will be 17-24 year old males with my secondary audience being females aged 17-24. I have chosen this audience because this age group is relatively common to buying music magazines and also this age group are stereotypical of having part time jobs, this meaning they can afford magazines etc as oppose to the younger years.

Jayme Hudspith

My first A level media project This is the front cover of a school magazine i have produced in a few short hours. The magazine contains many various images and effects. I have created 2 pages, one page as a front cover and the other as a contents page. to create

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My first A level media project

This is the front cover of a school magazine i have produced in a few short hours. The magazine contains many various images and effects. I have created 2 pages, one page as a front cover and the other as a contents page. to create my page i have used blending options and plain shapes as a backround for some of my smaller images.