My Music Magazine Questionaire

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Semiotics

Semiotics Lesson

Semiotics is the study of signs. A sign is something that stands for something, other than itself.

  There are two main studys, one is study by sausuure - sausuure's dyadic semiotics system and the other is pierces's tryadic semiotic system.

The first, is based on a study by Saussure - Sausuure's dyadic semiotic system. He concluded that signs are purely psychological and that they only make sense in a formal abstract system. He also stated that a one word language is an impossibility, and that a sign refers to what it is not. A sign is made up of a signifier, which signifies the signified - basically, something which connotes something else.

The other is Pierce's tryadic semiotic system, which states that there are 3 main different types of sign; indexes, icons and symbols. With indexes, it is connected to the signified in some way, either physically or casually (eg. the smell of smoke signifies a fire, but does not necessarily indicate a fire). An icon means that the signifier resembles the signified, for example a painting of a tree resembles a tree, but is not a tree itself, and a symbol is when the signifier is totally arbitrary and conventional, such as letters and numbers.

Research for Magazines

RESEARCH FOR MUSIC MAGAZINES

Here is my initial research for genres for my music magazine, i have decided to look at rock/ heavy rock, pop, indie  and Rnb, which are the top most looked at genres in music.

 This is an example of a music magazine linked mostly at pop and Rnb, this magazine is Billboard - Billboard  is an international news magazine devoted to music and the music industry, is usually mixed with any kind of genre however it is mostly aimed at pop. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis. As you can see that the main image on this picture is Rnb Pop star Rihanna, and it quickly directs the readers. Personally i love this genre, and it lets me think about pop magazines aswell.

This is an example of a music magazine, directed at the indie or rock genre, The New Musical Express, popularly known by initialism NME, created by Theodore Smythson, is a music journalism publication in the United Kingdom, Knowing what Nme stands for, gave me some ideas in naming my magazine, when you see this magazine it stands out with having a massive headline on the cover and it will make the reader look directly at the magazine and would also persuade them to buy the magazine.

This is an example of a rock/heavy genre based music magazine, Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group., Kerrang! was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. You can tell straight away that this is a rock based genre because the colour is black which would connotate dark, and frightning which rock music would be based on. it also has Rammstein, paramore, nickelback, linkin park, lostprophets, biffy clyro, five finger death punch, fall out boy and rob zombie who are Rock bands and singers associated with rock.

This is one of my favourite examples of a pop/rock genre based music magazine.

Rolling Stone is an American magazine published every two weeks which is devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture, it has the most famous pop star adele, and this magazine would sell quite alot, and i like the way that they've made the magazine cover aimed at her, and i know that it hasnt got many pugs or subtitles or barcodes but it is aimed at a pop star and it also shown as a special issue, it mainly focuses on the audience and what they would want to see in a magazine.

Brief

My name is Amy Andrews
For our AS media coursework we have been given a brief which will mean By the end of the course, we will have produced, a prelim task (School/college newsletter) and a main task which is to produce the front cover, contents page and a double page spread for a music magazine. All of our work has to be original, including text and photographs, which we will have to take ourselves, they can not be copied from google images.