The Music Industry

    The aims of this Factsheet are to:
- Investigate how the music industry is structured
- Define the differenes between major and independent music organisations
- Examine the distribution and marketing practices used by music institutions to promote recording artists
- Introduce and apply theoretical concepts to the music industry

The music industry is a global business that generates profit by selling musical recordings in both physical and digital formats to media audiences.
The music industry is a complex and competitive business and record companies and labels are continually devising new ways of attracting audiences to consume their products.

The term music industry refers to all the businesses that are responsible for the creation and the marketing of music. 

The diagram below highlights the various roles undertaken by record labels in the marketing and production of music.

                                                                          Record Labels

Scouting for             Financing                         Packaging &                        Marketing

New Artists            Recordings                       Distribution                          Promotion & Puplicity

Definition

Record Company: Is the company or organisation responsible for all the record labels inside the organisation. Record companies create new labels to reflect the varied genres of artists they represent. The creation of different record labels allows them to target their prokected markets accurately while still controlling the overall running of the business. 

Record Label: Is a company that runs within a bigger organisation. For example, Polydor Records is a large record label created and financed by Universal Music. Although a functioning business in their own right all the profits made by Polydor will ultimately go back into Universal Music.

Evaluation of the preliminary exercise

My conceived original idea was actual a school magazine about a revolt in the school. But I find that was a little bit to crazy, so I have take the story about the completion who will be are the next headmaster. To the first it will be easy to write what happened and number 2, I got no idea what will be happened when I take my first idea. By the competition I got more ideas and I have know what I can writing.

On the school front magazines it is very important that the school emblem stand of the front cover.
just as important are the price label, headline barcode etc. I have take as well as all importents stuffs from real magazines of my school magazines.
I have now more experience about media production. For example I now how I make front magazines and how many times that cost to sales a front magazines cover with content page. For the first time i must think on what i take for a idea. After them i tryed to impliment my idea. I begin with the design until the emblem and price tags. All done i printet the magazine front cover and Content page out.

Questions:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a school magazine?



How effective is the front page of your magazine in focusing on the ethos of the school?
My school front cover is not very noticeable. It's looked how a normal school magazine. No conspicuous colours or something other things.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I have different target audience. The one half wants have more tach and trach while the other half wants more  political thopics in the magazine.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I have actuel use just power point and copy the stuff after them i was done, in the normal microsoft office word to printed out my magazines front cover.

Front Cover Page, Content Page and Feedback from my target audience

This is my front magazines with contents page about a story where will somebody get the new headmaster and any other information. On the front magazines we see all what is of a normal front magazine. Dates, Button from the school, prize, barcode, headline etc.

I got a focus audience from my school magazines and I’ve asking  what there thought about my first draft:

Connor said that the front cover looks good, but of the contents page they can't see sarah of the little picture with chris.

Chris like the front cover with the shebbear emblem and prize label. But he said that i have write wrong the one sentence: "What did he will promise?"

Sarah said the she thinked it's weird that the background from the front cover is whit and from the Contents page black. 

(I know, the picture is make from me very bad)

Flat Plan

By my new Project i gotta must be make a scratch page, who will help me to create a good Shebbear Magazin. And here is it: 

(I know, my draw skills are very bad)

Analyse 2 School magazines of Print Media Terms

Parent and School. This is the name of the school and we see that as headline of the Magazine cover in Red and have embellished the word Parent. At the foreground we see a teenager who learned and use a telescope. In the background we see a ambiguous 2 woman's who talk. The one woman symbolize the teacher and the other woman should be are the mother. Below the cover we see some information about the school. The words are in different sizes. Of the cover we see below left the label from the school. down right we could can see the release day from this magazine. In the summaries have the magazine cover nothing special. A Picture, a Headline, some Information, embellished words and the label from the school. Very usual for a school magazine.







The King's School. This school magazine has of his front cover a guy who stay askance and look direct in the camera. Behind him is a school building from the King's school. Above the cover stay the Headline from the magazine. Above right we see the label from the school. Of this magazine cover stay the information of the right side. Above the picture the sky it either foggy or makes with Photoshop. But never is the sky so bright.
Above the cover of the left side we see the cover price and below left is the barcode. Of the right side stay some information about the prom 2010. The sentence to the prom are big, short and looks good of the front cover. I think just the sentence below the cover looks very bad because the colour don't convenient of the front cover. So also the button who stay News! and 80p!. In the summaries looks the front cover very cool and have a lot of information. Just the colours I didn't like.

Analyse 2 School Magazines

Parent and School: With the help from the magazin cover we can 

similarly see what for a school it is. To the first we can see the headline where stay: Parent and School. This school advertise that parents more to get in on school as just going of parents teacher conference. I don't really knowed how that function because i can just say what stay of the cover, but i think that the parents here more collaborate how parents from other school. We see also of the cover that the school is very strict in the thinks girls and boy. By this school there have just Boys-only Classes, how we can see below the cover. The school promise that the childrens learn very fast and have many science lessons. Also promise the school that the children have after here graduation a wonderful future. My conclusion: This school is for childrens there will not be happy when this boys or girls go of this school. Why? To severe. No child of this world will have his parent by his school.

The King's School: This school look how a typically boarding school in england. The King's School is a school where you learn, make much sport and learn also to behave yourself. The Magazin have tipps and tricks to help you by exam stress and have finally success. After them write the school magazine that the school has announce the new picture from the last prom. After them explain the school magazins if the disciple must wear or not. Below the magazin we see a little information about the canteen. Maybe offer the canteen doughnuts for everbody. The school magazin you get for just 80p! Above of the right side we see also the emblem from the school. How in the Shebbear college you can deside between you would just going here of this school or also going here of this school and live of the King's School.
My conclusion: The King's School is how a textbook example. Not really specialy. How we knowed from 100 other boarding schools in England.

Semiology

                                          

The aims of this Factsheet are to

- introduce the concept of semiology and show how it can be used to assist with analysis and evaluation of media texts

- define key semiological terminology and provide examples of their use within a media studies context

- identify how semiology can help the analysis of media texts in relation to a range of media concepts

Denotation and Connotation

1. Dennotation is the literal meaning/description of a word/object
  -The ´no naked flame´ sign consists of a red circle with a diagonal bar through it and an image of a lit match

2. Connotations are the associated that are made when interpreting a sign
 - Red is a colour associated with danger
 -The ´no naked flame´ sign is similar in shape to ´no smoking´ signs


An Example Brokeback Mountain Film Poster

This picture denotes the following:

- The background of a blue sky with a large white cloud

- A mountain range and a forest on the horizon across the centre of the image

-The reflections of the mountains and the forest in a lake or river

-Two young men in denim jackets and hats looking downwards and facing away from each other