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Over the years this e beauty has known to become popular over her romantic love and break up songs. She’s encountered many situations which help bring these catchy tunes to being however just recently she released her new album, Red. This is the fourth studio album by American singer – songwriter Lauren Kelly. Now you ask why it was named after a colour, why not a flower or the many many boys she’s been with...well the album title was actually inspired from the “semi – toxic relationships” that Kelly had experienced during the process of composing this album. She describes all the heart-breaking emotions she felt as being “red emotions” due their intense nature. The album features collaborations with, a member or Snow Patrol and Britain’s favourite boy Ed Sheeran.

Red debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 giving her third consecutive chart topper in the US. In the first week, Red received 1.12 million sales making it the third biggest album debut in history for a female artist and became the fastest selling album in over a decade, taking over stars like Avril Lavigne and even Madonna. The album was also a huge global success as it hit as the first chart topper in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and charted in every other top ten market…including China. Overall worldwide it sold 6 million copies as of August 2014 after being released by the Big Machine Records in October 2012.

 

In August 2013, previewed the lead single of the album, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”. She revealed her side of the story and meaning behind the song and quoted, “All the different emotions that are written about on this album are pretty much about the kind of tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi – toxic relationships that I’ve ever experienced in the last two years. All those emotions – spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that – in my mind, all those emotions are red.  You know, there’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any of those feelings”.

Production Diary 8

This week we have been looking at the tutorial videos on how to present our contents and feature page in our magazine. So far I have reached the point where I have finished stylising my contents page and placing al the text for the different categories in the relavent spaces and am now moving on to creating the feature page background and the article to place on it, so in my case there would be something on Lauren Kelly behind the scenes of her concerts or how she writes her music and how long it takes her; if she writes it on her on or with a partner.

Contents Page

CONTENTS

 

Reviews

Behind the scenes action!

See what hot beauty Nikki Z gets up to before hitting the stage

Best Female Artists...

Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and many more

Disney Stars...

Where are they at now?

 

This Weeks Artists

5 Seconds of summer

Avril Lavigne

Beyoncé

B.O.B

Calvin Harris

Celine Dion

Cheryl Cole

Chris Brown

Demi Lovato

Drake

Ed Sheeran

Emily Osment

Eminem

Example

Frank Ocean

Kelly Clarkson

Lana Del Ray

Mariah Carey

Bridget Mendler

Miley Cyrus

One Republic

Paramore

Rihanna

Taylor Swift

The Script

Whitney Houston

 

Q&A

Your questions are answered by our young rebel, Avril Lavigne

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Production Diary 7

This week in class I have been looking at tutorials of which help me to finalize my magazine. So far I have got up to styling my Contents page, this includes placing pictures in, deciding what we would like to put in as text on our articles e.g. in our feature, reviews, whats new etc. sections. I started off with my contents page because I figured that it may be the easiest to guide me the through the rest of the magazine as I would know where to place the articles on other pages and especially on the front cover, it makes it easier to decide which articles and stand out features should be put on to draw in the audience.

Magazine Institutions

The four main magazine institutions are: BBC - Emap – IPC Media - Bauer

IPC Media

IPC Media Music Magazines are dedicated to music and music cultures featuring many different famous musicians, but also new musicians that specialize in certain types of music. It is one of the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publishers, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. It was formed in 1963 as International Publishing Company and currently produces over 60 iconic media brands, with print alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults –their websites collectively reach over 14 million users every month. IPC is owned by Time Inc, the publishing company of Time Warner Inc. The company has many sub-brands within their portfolio such as: IPC Media Connect, Market Force, Southbank, Ignite, and TX.
The majority of music magazines only focus on one genre, however they also focus on many genres that have similarities with the main one. They may also include feature articles and up and coming profiles on artists. For example, if you had a magazine on Taylor Swift, she would be represented through Pop and Country so she would span across two different genres. Also each of the different genres of music attracts certain types of audiences. Also each of the different genres of music attracts certain types of audiences. 

BBC

BBC magazine is the magazine publishing arm of the BBC worldwide. BBC provides a varied and wide range of magazines that target many different audiences. They focus their magazines on music, gardening, children’s popular TV programmes, cooking, cars and astrology.
The music magazines that the BBC has published include:
Its Hot - Top of The Pops - Classical Music Magazine
The BBC publishes many different genres of magazines as well as major websites through their digital channels as well. There are only a few magazines that are of the same genre. Top of the Pops attracts age ranges from 11 up to 15 years due to the content, music articles such as ‘Glee’ and ‘X Factor’. TOTP- affectionately known was launched in February 1995 and is released in magazine style monthly, but now has a new website which is updated every day with new ‘Today’s News’ section and new features.

Emap

Emap specializes predominately in the ‘b2b’ (business to business) publishing space. It has specific publications for each genre and in general these are quite different and contain specific content relating to an industry such as nursing, retail and media. This attracts a very wide audience which is attracted through magazines and on-line versions including rss feeds on breaking news within the industry publications.
Emap was established and founded in 1947 and has its Headquarters near Camden in London. The name Emap originates from East Midland Allied Press.

Bauer

 Through Bauer Publishing Group own Bauer Media its publishing company;it is Europe’s largest privately owned publishing group. The Bauer Publishing Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 230 magazines in 15 countries. They also feature heavily online, TV and a wide range of radio stations.
Bauer Media is a multi-media platform UK based media group. The group consists of many sub-brands and companies mainly around two groups – Magazines and Radio – this is widely recognised and being innovative and industry leaders, which is reflected in many awards and accolades they have won within the industry. On average over 12.4 million people listen to a Bauer media radio station. It owns the number one and four top commercial radio stations in London. Kiss is one of their prestigious radio stations which attracts and is targeted at the young dance audience.

Article Analysis

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Production Diary 2

This week we carried on from our planning and research of our preliminary task and started to take pictures for it. We were sent out of class in small groups to be creative and imaginative of the genre of pictures we would have liked to put in our magazine. After taking these pictures, they got scanned and processed and we started to create our final task partly using our plan and partly using fresh ideas.

Production Diary 6

This week I have been looking at uses and gratifications. This has helped me to figure out what I need in my magazine and helped me understand that my magazine must entertain, inform and excite readers to the mazimum possible level. I have also created my survey on music magazines, this should help me to understand what type of audiences like and prefer to have in music magazines, in order for me to apply to my own magazine. One thing I will consider in mind as I produce the final magzine is to keep on reffering back to my survey, previous students work, analysis of work etc. to insure I get the best result in my magazine for the audience to enjoy.

Production Diary 5

This week I have been looking at contents pages and analysing them. This helped me to see what creates a professional appearance and what factors are needed to navigate your way through. I have noticed that there are big numbers on top of pictures. This is to tell you what page the picture is linking to. I have also noticed that there are a wide range of shots, from close ups to long shots. It has started to give me an idea of what the structure and layout of my magazine should look like.

Music Magazine Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9PQLB9V

Production Diary 4

This week, I have been asked to pick out two magazine articles and analyse them. The purpose of this task was to help us to understand and give us ideas of what we should apply to our magazine. From this, I will look at the layout, the posts, the subheading of the posts and see what kind of things I would like to put into my magazine to help it look the part. I also found that these magazine articles will make things so much easier for me to apply to my final magazine as I would have a hint of an idea of what to put in it and how I would like it to look.

Production Diary 3

This week we were told to choose 3 magazine covers (e.g. previous students work) and analyse them. I have decided to choose 3 different magazine covers which I thought would give me a better and much broader understanding of what a magazine cover should look like and answer questions like why is it like that or why has the designer placed that there....From these magazine cover examples, I will gain suitable knowledge for my final magazine and how I would like to present it.