lunes, 28 de octubre de 2013

Codes and Conventions


Brainstorm

Goal Star Magazine

Front cover:

Key photo: 
Always a superstar as the key image. Either as a close up when the person is not playing football, or in a dramatic match situation

Texts/articles: 
Text about a competition ("Win tickets to…"), text about feature article ("How Ronaldo grew up…"), text about an upcoming match, text about the other main articles in the magazine. 
Text about training techniques ("Learn to shoot like Neymar… etc) 

Offer: 
An offer of some sort, e.g. match tickets, subscription etc.

Graphics:

Lots of illustrations and info graphics about techniques or explaining vital stages in a match.
Lay-out that is both appealing, easy-to-understand and innovative
Dramatic play with typography of different font size.

Journalism:

Well-written, straight forward, quality-driven content.
Not patronizing despite the young target audience.
Lots of references to online/tablet version ("Read more at www…")

Photo style: 

Bold images that stand-out in drama, honesty, intensity and picture quality. 
The most exciting pictures will be made available as posters inserted in the magazine. 

Questionnaire analysis


Questionnaire analysis

Goal Star Magazine




As you can see on the graph 60% of my year group was over 10 years old



80% either subscribe or want to subscribe to a football magazine.




70% plays a football video game.



90% plays football.




The most attractive football items to buy are: football shirts, games, shorts and shoes.



The most attractive tournaments/leagues to watch are: Champions League, Premier League and The World Cup.



40% are dreaming about becoming a professional football player.



60% want to know to become a better football player and only 20% want to know about nutrition.


If you would buy a football magazine, what would you like to read about?
Many people wanted to read about, how it’s going in the different leagues (statistics), transfers and special things about the individual players (how they became professionals).


What would you and your friends discuss from a football magazine?
People from my questionnaire said that they would discuss new transfers, players and matches from the week/future matches and how the magazine comments on the matches. If the magazine had football cards then they would absolutely talk about that.