Comparison of double page spread essay

The we love pop magazine is targeted at 11-16 year old girls who have a very big interest in the mainstream music, like chart music. They would also be very interested in gossip and latest news of the main stream industry in music, celebrities and tv program. However the Q magazine is aimed at ages between 16-25 years old male and females, who have a big interest in rock music, old rock and new rock. And usually focused on bands but occasionally solo artists. It is also aimed at people who are interested gigs and festivals. The double page for WeLovePop is about Tulisa, a ex band member on a mainstream RnB/pop band called 'Ndubz'. And now part of he big well known UK show called X factor, who is a judge. She is currently releasing her new album  and the magazine is mainly advertising her new album and X factor. Letting all the audience know the behind scenes gossip of X factor. The Q magazine's double page spread however is about Biffy Clyro, a rock band. This double page spread is mainly showing the audience the rock and roll life they live, as they drink daily and play concerts. Using more complex words rude words such as 'pornography' this shows that it is not suppose to be for people under 16 to read, because not only is it not suitable but they would simply not understand the context.This represents the rebellious life they live. It is not so much music related, and more just humorous friendly 'banter'.

The structure for welovepop is very bright and bold. The colours bright blue and a hot pink and yellow is used as extra colours to make certain parts of the text stand out more than other, for example the questions are in a bold hot pink, so you think about whether you want to read the answer to the question. The have a set style as they go from a page of mainly text then just a big picture then to another page of mainly text then the last page again being a big main picture. This is used to break the magazine up a bit. As it is aimed at younger teenagers they don't want to be reading purely just text and for it to look boring, other wise they would be put off and not want to read it. The text surrounds the pictures, and the pictures have added captions. Which are usually highlighted with a bright colour. Quotes are plotted around the magazine also to break it up a bit to get the reader a 'sneak peak' of what is going to be involved in the article. In the Q magazine it is very basic on the first page. As one page is purely based on just text and this is where the interview takes place. There are no quotes added and all text is used. It looked like a lot of writing on the page. But is not off putting because it is aimed at such a older audience.The top writing of the magazine (heading and subheading) is all centered  it is almost like the opening of the magazine and is easy to see. Biffy Clyro is the biggest text on the whole magazine this clearly shows who the article is about, and this goes with the simple look to the magazine, the heading and subheading are both in black. The actual interview is set out in two columns and each questions is asked and a then a space between each question and answer. On the other page it is mainly just a large picture taking up the whole A4 page and has awards Biffy Clyro have been given in a star, and then a quote which doesn't really relate to the picture.

The pictures used in the double page spread for We love pop is quite varied. As the first page is simply a picture which everyone is probably most familiar with as it is Tulisa and Nicole Scherzinger as they are judges on a worldwide mainstream TV program. It is simply just a Mid shot picture of them with a bright blue border to go with the colour theme of the magazine. It is centered in the middle of the page with all the text around it. This is because the context around it is mainly about the X Factor and as it is very popular it draws the attention of the young audience to see what gossip about the show it will reveal about the inspirational women. On the following page it is a Mid shot close up of Tulisa laughing creating a very positive impression of Tulisa and to represent the positive article, she is laughing, it is very plain with a plain white back ground. It is also very feminine, as she is wearing baby pink lipstick and a hot pink dress/top. This fits in with the girly theme as they would be a lot more interested in it rather than if she looked all gothy. Her well known tattoo on her right arm which says 'The Female Boss' is shown very clearly to show the female power of the article. This makes her very inspirational for the young girl teens as she is seen as independent and free. Which the magazine wants  to show from this picture for young girls to be proud and independent. On the following page a collage which takes up about 2/3 of the page and it is Tulisa with her celeb friends, they all have humours captions to explain the picture, this makes it funny and quirky for the teens to read, which makes them want to read more. The fact that they put other celebrities with Tulisa gives more to look at for the audience and makes it a lot more interesting as you can see who Tulisa is getting close with. All of the picture apart from one have a white border round it, but the one with Tulisa and a very famous band member from JLS (who took part in the X factor a couple of years ago) Aston having a hug, and the caption says ' Tulisa's Aston's latest squeeze, which isn't giving too much away but dropping a little hint that something could be happening. They did this because the audience reading this magazine would be very interested in the band JLS. The yellow border to this picture attracts the audience to the picture they want the audience to see the most.On the last page is a long shot of Tulisa, it is a lot different to the other pages and makes it like a finale of the article for the audience. The camera is slightly looking up to her to bring a conclusion to how she is a positive artist in the media right now and is very inspirational in what she does. Also the last picture is a small picture of her and a band member from One Directions, (again took part in the competition on x factor) this relates to the x factor theme of the magazine. And also again the band are a big hit with the exact same audience as the magazine is trying to attract. 
On the Q magazine there is a lot less pictures, actually only having one picture. On the first page it is simply just text to appeal to the more mature reader compared to We Love Pop. On the other page however the is a full A4 picture of the band Biffy Clyro. But even then, it is a picture of them drinking alcohol. It slightly contrasts as they are older and the audience set out to attract a a lot more older and mature reader, however the band are spitting the drink out with their feet on the chairs etc. This contrasts with the adult like audience, as they are older but want to have fun. This fits in with the teen/ young adult audience, as they want to have fun and go partying but are a lot more mature. They also have a humorous side to the picture as one of the band members are wearing pink socks and bunny slippers, whilst holding a can of beer. This contrasts aswell to set a adult life like theme but in a humorous and fun way. It fits in with the context as it isnt very sensible as the questions that are asked are all very random. 

In We Love Pop magazine, the language used is very gossipy. As the interviewer is trying to to get gossip out of the person the main article is about. For example they asked Tulisa what she thought of Caroline Flack and Harry Styles relationship, finding out a little extra, but however they do it in a positive way making sure that it is not making the other person look bad. So it is what the young audience need, extra gossip the audience is craving but to negatively to teach them the positive way of life. Also it mainly about Tulisa, X factor, friends, and career. It doesn't have any sort of too personal questions like 'what's your favourite food?' This magazine is all very gossip orientated. The language is quite basic, and not a 'lot of complex words are used. They also highlighted in yellow the important parts of the answers, this attracts the reader to read that question and answer, seeing that is is something interesting and want to read the one before and after. The questions do follow on from one another, so you need to read the question before to understand the one after, and the question you read makes you want to read the next question. This attracts the naive teenagers but in a positive and right way.    
However in the music magazine Q there are a lot more complex and sophisticated words used throughout the text. This makes it a lot more easier for the older audience to read because it's in there comfort zone not boring and too easy but not too challenging, which then makes them more willing to read the article. As We Love Pop was more about whats going on now, so the audience keeps up with the gossip, Q is more about present information. Asking things about what life was like before they were famous. They have a more humorous touch, they try to make the audience laugh a lot more, as well show the band they are interviewing are having fun.  The context is a lot more mature as the magazine begins with 'Its Q's round? What are you having?'...'Just a vodka, please'. It involves a lot of things like alcohol, sex (pornography), and drugs, which is a lot like the typical rock stars lifestyle. This magazine is based on a stereotypical life but in a humorous way, almost making fun out of them selves.

On We Love Pop magazine, everything is very girly as there are a lot of hearts in places. Ending the whole article with a little pink heart on the end. And on every page there is 'Tulisa' on the corner of the page along with the logo on top of it saying We (heart) Pop. Where as Q magazine doesn't really have anything like that it is mainly just promoting that they are a an award winning magazine. And the end of this article is ended with the logo Q at the ends. The Q is placed in number of places on the page of the article to show the proud winner on best magazine. And the following page is a star with 'WINNER BEST LIVE ACT' in bold this shows that the magazine is high up and doing well because they can get a winning band. 

Over all the difference in these magazine are a very good example of the extremes of different types of genres. A rock/indie genre contrasted with a young pop magazine. The difference has been represented in the way that they would like to present their magazine to their set audience. Q using a more simplistic, bold, plain look, with humorous  mature context which fits the older/more sophisticated audience and We Love Pop using a very bold, bright, busy look with more of a fun, catchy, gossipy context, fitting the younger audience who are in to a more of a fun/ gossipy .

Final draft for my school magazine content page.

This is my final draft for my content page for my school magazine 'Brupper'.

This is my final draft of my magazine, I think added the extra lines made a huge difference, as it made it look alot neater/organised and easier to read. I like the black background to my headings, because it makes it easier for the audience to find what there looking for or they can see what they are most interested and select what article they are most interested in. 

Overall there are various things I particually like about my magazine. These being; the handwritten text which allow the idea that Mr Wilcock has in fact written the little note to the student which seems a lot more specific to that individual rather than it just being printed text which could have been written by anyone. I really like the column of pictures, as I really do like the idea of having a lot of pictures on the content page as it makes it a lot more readable. Specifically the  column of pictures however because I think the various colours really do draw your eye in and allows you to want to read on. I think the lines really separates the different articles as before it looked very jumbled and you didn't really know what number went with what article. This allows it to look a lot more organised for the reader. I really like the colour scheme, the idea of sticking to the school colours being gold, brown, and black really represents the school and people will automatically know what magazine it is, and who we as a school are proud of. The way the colour scheme is used, the headers are used with a black and white and then the titles are brown to allow them to stand out and following that the subtitles being black to separate them. Lastly I used rhetorical questions for a reason, as it leaves the reader to think and leaves some suspense to want them to read onto the article. I think this was a good idea to bring them into the magazine and want to actually read it but also to think, as it is a school magazine they are subconsciously still thinking hard.  

Second draft for my school magazine content page.

This is my second draft for my school magazine 'Brupper'.

I haven't made a drastic change with my magazine, I added a gold bolder around the pictures to draw the readers attention in. And I did try some of the same gold in the text, however it look way to busy. Therefore I liked it like this. I didn't really know what else to add. However I have recently just researched magazine content pages and have see that I can add a bit of a bold background toward the heading, and putting in lines to show the separation of the text, therefore in my final draft I am going to try this.

First draft for my school magazine content page.

This is my first draft for my school magazine 'Brupper' content page.

I do like my first draft of my content page. I would like to make some adjustment to it though, maybe using a border round pictures to make it stand out. And changed the colours around abit, for example I may add a yellow/gold to some of the texts and use it as a border because it will make certain things stand out a lot more, and it will also fit in to the school colours. 

This is my final draft of my school magazine cover... 

This is my final draft, I did what I said I would do and I simply rearranged the main picture because I thought the picture of Natasha Baker's picture looked a lot better on the right because of the angle of the picture was taken. I also cut the background the out from the picture of the Natasha. Also I think it creates more of a focus for the audience to see that she has one a gold medal and that she is represented us as a country. I think it really improved my magazine because now it doesn't look like everything is in blocks. 

This is my second draft for my school magazine cover...

Here I have used Photoshop to blur and smudge in the picture of the house point table and the picture of Natasha Barker. I thought this would make my magazine look a lot more like a magazine because rather that the picture being purely just block pictures and really blunt looking, I have made it all blend into one. However I don't really like the background to the picture of Natasha Barker and would like to get rid of it. I also made the bottom of the picture gradient as I wanted the table to blend in at the bottom and for it all to just merge and I really like that effect.

first draft of my School Magazine cover

This is my first draft of my School Magazine cover...

This is my idea that i would like to take and improve for my school magazine. I used the photo of the school main hall, and I edited it on Photoshop and then stretched it out to my main background picture. I used this specific picture purely because an interview in the article would be similar to her coming into school and explaining her story, and this is where it would be held. I wanted to tie it all in at once. I used black, white and red as my main colours because I wanted it to look more of a classy magazine, however I didn't want it to be boring and just black and white because it wouldn't draw the audiences attention. So I started white fancy looking writing to show the classiness of the magazine, and then used white so it stood out, and didn't show any negativity, using connotation as white representing the pureness of the school and how it is good and heavenly, just showing that the school is a good school. I then used red for the important parts that I wanted the audience to look at, I used it to show what i thought the audience would want to see. I.e. showing who was in the paper, who is famous within Hillingdon, as she attended Bishop Ramsey. I also added the recent house point scores because I know that would be a key thing to draw students eyes to the magazine. However at the moment the it all look like it is in blocks and doesn't look very much like a magazine cover, because the pictures are blending in or cropped or anything, they look like they have just been placed there and it makes it look messy. That then contradicts what I wanted my magazine to look like which was classy. I would like to blend the pictures in and maybe replace them to make them look a bit more organised.  

Main magazine publishers

Bauer Media
They publish:

• Gossip magazines:Closer, Heat, More!
• 'Lads' Magazine: FHM, ZOO.
• Sports magazines: Match, Improve your coarse fishing, Golf illustrated.
• Fashion magazine: Grazia.
• Nature magazine:Garden news, Garden answers,
• Car magazine: Classic car weekly, Car mechanics, Classic Cars.
• Music magazine:Kerrang, MOJO.
• Mothers magazines: Pregnancy and birth, mother and baby magazine.

What is the ethos of Bauer Media?
The ethos of this magazine company is quite a mixture of magazines, as they have a catagorie for each genre. They pretty much cover every type of genre for all types of ages. 

How successful are they?
Bauer Media are a very successful magazine company, it is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries. Also it is Europes larget privately owned publishing group. In 1994, the company bought a small magazine called For Him Magazine which is now the core of the best-selling international multi-platform brand FHM. Continuing its history of magazine launches, Closer was launched in 2002 and Britain’s first weekly glossy, GRAZIA, was launched in 2005.

National Magazine Company
They publish:

• Fashion magazines: COMPANY, ELLE, ELLE decoration, Cosmopoliton, Bazaar, Prima,
• Gossip/women magazines: Best, Cosmopoliton, Reveal, Bazaar, Prima, real people, Red, esquire,
• TV magazines: Inside soap, all about the soaps.
• House magazines: Good housekeeping, House beautiful.
• Teen magazines: SugarScope.

What is the ethos of National Magazine Company?
The ethos of this magazine company mainly aimed at women, as majority of the magazine are sterotypically the interests of women, for example, gossip/ fashion, as well as house keeping magazines.

How successful is the magazine comapny?
National magazine company is aswell very successful as it is the UK's largest digital publisher. It is also UK's leading media companies with 24 magazine brands.

Future Publishing
They publish:

• Technology magazine: Macformat, Windows: the offical magazine, Tap!
• Games magazine: Gamesmaster, xbox world, ngamer.
• Music magazine: Total Guitar, Classic RoCK, future music.
• Sport magazine: Cycling Plus, Mountain Biking UK, Triatholon Plus.
• Craft magazine: The knitter, Your family tree, Mollie makes.
• Auto magazine: Classic ford, mini magazine, trucking, truckstop news.