My Questionnaire results

I recieved 10 different sets of results from my Music Magazine Questionnaire. My results are the following( Click on the images to see them full size):

Contents Page Analysis

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Double Page Spread Analysis

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Introduction Paragraph for magazine article

The following paragraph I have written as an idea to introduce my magazine article.

With a deafening debute album just released, tour dates lined up and constant buzz from the media - metal folks, such as yourself, around the UK are certainly in for a treat when it comes down to this bunch o' screaming, hairy hooligans! There are simply just too many aspects about these guys I could ramble on about to you but I'll get to that later. With sold-out headline shows on their UK tour, you simply would be daft to miss the chance to get to see them. "Why should I see them?" you ask? Well read on and find out for yourself!

Magazine Cover Analysis

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Colour College Magazine Cover

Here is my finished College Magazine cover.

College magazine analysis

 The Deyes High Newsletter is very basic and generally plain. I find this is due to the lack of colour and the fairly symmetrical layout of the cover. The image at the top of the cover is a pencil drawn image which shows the cover is very dated for today's modern society - this, however, will be a bit more appealing to students parents - giving the school a more professional and well educated image. The use of "Comic Sans" font on the "Newsletter 2 December 2010" is a very unprofessional-looking part of the cover, the font is rather tacky and doesn't fit well with the rest of the cover.

The St Ambrose Barlow newsletter cover uses colour which is instantly noticeable compared to the Deyes cover. There are also many other features of a magazine cover which are incorporated in this cover such as; Pugs, Puffs, Headline etc. This cover looks more like an article page though as it has the main story and the contents on the front. Use of a "Redtop" masthead has also been used on this which is very eye-catching and professional looking (Redtops are used in other magazines/newspapers such as; The Sun, The Mirror, Hello!, OK!, etc.) Once again, there is use of the "Comic sans" font which makes the whole cover look unprofessional. As opposed to the pencil drawn image on the Deyes cover, this uses 4-colour images cropped to fit in with the anchorage well which is a lot more professional.

Music moodboard

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Cohen's Moral Panic

Moral Panic - "a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges as a threat to societal values and interests".

The features of this Moral Panic are:

• Concern - the behaviour of a particular group of people is portrayed as a threat
• Disproportionality - over exaggeration of evidence
• Volatility - the situation erupts dramatically
• Hostility - "Folk devils" are created to cause a diversion (e.g "Youths" or "Hoodies")
• Consensus - widespread acceptance of the created threat

Stanley Cohen wrote a book about moral panic in the media and society ("Folk Devils and Moral Panics") and gained public intrest in his theory of this. Pete Doherty is a prime example of the Moral Panic due to his drug and alcohol driven lifestyle. The media would try to make society think that he was 'poisoning' young people and causing them to act like him in order to lead a similar lifestyle.