Double Page Mock Up

'Turntable' Rate Card

Total whole pages of advertising – 66

Cost of full page ad - £11,430

Total advertising revenue 66 x £11,430 = £75,438

Circulation – 145,000

Cover price - £2.50

Total revenue from circulation 145,000 x £2.50 = £36,250

Total revenue - £1,116,88

Magazine Cover

Mock up of front cover

Imaginary Entity

Imaginary Entity

1.    How old are you?

17

2.    What kind of music do you listen to?

Mainly rock music

3.    Who is your favourite band/artist?

Biffy Clyro

4.    Do you go see live music? If so who and where?

Yes, I do. Tunbridge Wells Forum, Crowborough, Brighton, Brixton, Wembley Arena, O2 Arena

5.    What kind of clothing do you buy?

Topshop, River Island, Primark

6.    What do you drink?

Most things

7.    What type of bar/club/pub do you go to?

Spoons, Longbar,

Do you have a job? If so where?

Topshop/Topman

In order to create my imaginary entity I decided to think about the kind of people that like and read the same genre as my magazine. I came to the conclusion that most people who would read and listen to this genre are around my age, therefore I created questions according to that.

Magazine Cover

Rate Card

Media magazine research

Vogue rate card –

Cost of full page ad = £31,400

Cover Price = £4.10

Circulation = £211,277

Total readership = 1,103,000

Women = 927,000

Men = 176,000

Average age = 36

The rate card shows that magazines make their money from advertisement. The price of the magazine is quite a lot of money because of the amount of advertising in the actual magazine. The rate card also shows that over all women read Vogue magazine as it is the most up to date fashion magazine and most of the content is aimed at women.

Contents Page

Magazine Annotation

School Magazine Annotation

Timeline

Date	Task
9th November 2009	Preliminary task complete.
10th November 2009	Plan title, style and genre of your magazine.
11th November 2009	Study of signs and semiotics.
16th November 2009	Ready to scan in mock of front cover, double page spread and contents page.
23rd November 2009	Study of encoding and decoding model.
10th December 2009	Original photos taken and uploaded.
11th December 2009	Mock up of front cover completed.
15th December 2009	Mock up of double page spread completed.
4th January 2010	Front cover & Double page spread completed.
10th January 2010	Contents page completed.
18th January 2010	Questions 1-3 of evaluation completed.
21st January 2010	Questions 4-7 of evaluation completed.