Monday 9 May 2011

Tuesday 3 May 2011

I kept with the on going theme of pink and purple as it looks girly and draws the reader in. 
I made the contence page bright a colourful so it would attract people to look at the other pages. 
this is my magazine front cover I designed it like this because I thought it would be different to make a magazine that is exclusive and looks like it is rapped like a parcel, instead of having a traditional front cover with the band and lots of puffs and pugs to attract the attention of the audience. 

Thursday 17 March 2011

Analysis of music magazines

2 music magazine front covers
This is the Britney Spears Rolling Stones front cover
 
This is the Spice Girls Smash Hits front cover

Saturday 5 March 2011

Mood Board

This mood board will influence my magazine a lot because these are the types of artists my magazine is based on.

Thursday 3 March 2011

Cohen

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Acording to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panic and credited with coining the term, a moral panic occurs when a person in a group of people emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers as "moral entrepreneurs", while people who supposedly threaten the social order have been described as "folk devils."
Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo.The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not self-consciously engaged
in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic.


Moral panics have several distinct features. According to Goode and Ben-Yehuda, moral panic consists of the following characteristics:
  • Concern - There must be awareness that the behaviour of the group or category in question is likely to have a negative impact on society.
  • Hostility - Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become "folk devils". A clear division forms between "them" and "us".
  • Consensus - Though concern does not have to be nationwide, there must be widespread acceptance that the group in question poses a very real threat to society. It is important at this stage that the "moral entrepreneurs" are vocal and the "folk devils" appear weak and disorganised.
  • Disproportionality - The action taken is disproportionate to the actual threat posed by the accused group.
  • Volatility - Moral panics are highly volatile and tend to disappear as quickly as they appeared due to a wane in public interest or news reports changing to another topic.