BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide is in the broadcasting industry as it sells British programming for broadcast in other countries. It is located in London, England and the chairman is Tony Hall.

History

BBC Worldwide was first founded in the year of 1995, In the 20th century BBC was very popular and had many departments of its own, some departments such as BBC profit were growing and expanding quickly but also had to deal with financial difficulties in the late 1960's.
In the year of 1979 BBC Worldwide was called BBC Enterprises LTD and by 1986 all of the commercial activities were part of BBC Enterprises LTD.
After a review of the BBC commercials in 2004 many changes were made, one which included that anything linked to BBC programs will only be shown in the UK.  BBC Worldwide's sales and profits were increasing in the 1990's and the early 2000's. Because of the review in 2004, their profits had decreased by a huge amount. Although after that specific year, the sales and profits kept rising with only a few downfalls.The decision of the production division was made in 2006.

Publications

-BBC Focus magazine
-BBC GoodFood magazine



This music magazine is another one of BBC's productions.
It includes information about the writer "George Grove", classical music and a very old play called "Peer Gynt".
Seeing as the magazine involves such things that young people may not be interested in, the target audience is more likely to be adults or older people.
The magazine cover is also quite dull but has a big picture of Riccardo Chailly who is a famous Italian music conductor. This may intrigue older readers of Music magazine.






BBC Worldwide also has the magazine BBC Wildlife as one of their other productions.
This magazine is filled with lots of interesting information and facts about things such as British bird populations, UK winter wildlife experiences, why koalas are in crisis, about wolfs and much more.
The target audience for this magazine is for those who are interested in animals and "wildlife", it does not have a specific gender or age.

Universal Studios

Universal Studios is one of Hollywood's biggest and the worlds fourth oldest major film studio.

This company is huge as it is served worldwide.

History

Universal Studios was first founded on April 12th 1912 in New York by Carl Laemmle. He started off buying a couple of the first nickelodeon's by giving up his own goods.Universal Studios soon had movie production, distribution and exhibition venues which means that it became a virtual integration company.

Later in 1926, Universal Studios decided to open a production unit in Germany which is also where Carl Laemmle himself was from. Soon after they migrated to Hungary and Austria.

After making his son Carl, Jr the head of Universal Studies, Leammle noticed big changes being made. Most of these changes, such as the showing of horror movies and converting the studio to sound production worked but some such as turning Universal forays into high quality production turned into a disaster as it was quite risky.

In 1945 J.Arthur Rank, who was a British entrepreneur, took a lot of interest in Universal studios. He decided to get Universal Studios, International Studios and Kenneth young to make United World pictures. This was not very successful so soon after they made Universal-International and as William Goetz was a founder of international, he was made head of production at Universal-International Pictures inc. He stopped low-budgeted movies and serials. Even though Universal was improving, there were many movies that go negative feedback from the box office and once Goetz left Universal just went back to making low-budget movies, they focused on Arabian nights, monster, and science fiction films.

The Music Cooperation of America (MCA) had taken over in the late 1950's. Universal sold their studio which was 360-acres to MCA and renamed Universal to Universal Pictures and with MCA in charge, Universal became an A film movie studio with directors and leading actors which were all under contract.

Universal Studio is the only Studio that have released three billion dollar films in one year such as Furious 7, Minions and Jurassic World.

Publications

-BMP
-Fossil
-Panda Restaraunt


Billboard is a big music magazine company which is originally from New York and is said to be one of the oldest trade magazines in the world as it was first published on November 1st 1894.
This music magazine is one of Universals publication that they manage. The target audience for this specific magazine would be teenage girls but in general, magazines would have teenagers as their target audience.
The fact that the cover is not too colorful or loaded with information shows that it is not aimed at young kids or adults. The magazine has quite a large picture of the singer Lord which shows that most teens would be interested in the magazine.


Another publication that Universal manages is "Ben and Jerry's Homemade Holdings". Ben and Jerry's is a very popular company and managing the company makes both Universal and Ben and Jerry's more known. One of the benefits is that the target audience is not specific (having babies as an exception) and both are worldwide companies.
Universal Studio also has its own Ben and Jerry's shop opened which brings in more customers.
Although Ben and Jerry's is very expensive people still want to buy it as it is one of the best known companions for its ice creams, frozen yogurt and sorbets.

Final School Magazine

Mock up Design

Font and colour testing

Questionnaire data evaluation

For our analysis we had 15 different people to fill out the questionnaire. We then went with what the majority said which was the following;

- The magazine cover and contents page will have a colour scheme, this will make the magazine look more put-together.
- One of the fonts that will be most commonly used is Adamsky SF. This is because after testing a number of fonts this one was the most easiest to read and also looked like it could be used as formal and informal text.
- The magazine cover will be more picture based where as the contents page will be more informative. The cover will look more eye catching and interesting with pictures rather than a whole lot of text people might not even bother to read. If the cover is interesting then they will surely want to find out more about the sixth form.
- The pictures will be of highdown sixth form including students taking part in school activities. This would help make the school look like a very happy environment for everyone.
- It will include the latest news and future school activities/trips.
-The front cover of the magazine will include the highdown school logo. This will help represent highdown sixth form much better.
- The contents page will be short and basic. Some contents pages from my last analysis were too long and confusing, this is one of the reasons we agreed that  it will be short but not too plain and boring either.

Questionnaire

School magazine contents page analysis

-The black color which reads "Contexts" stands out against the purple background
-Serif font is used creating a more formal style which works well for a context page as it is for a school magazine
-The text explaining the articles is to small to read and includes too much information
-Page numbers are a good size and easy to read
-The layout of the contents page has been split up into 2 columns, one side includes a text and a smaller image then the other includes the main image then text at the bottom
-Writing on the image clearly shows what or who the article is about
-3 colors which work very well together are used
-The purple used on the contents page correlates well with the purple top that the girl is wearing in the image





-Color of "contents" matches school colors and stands out a lot from the background
-Very basic and not filled with text or pictures
-Once big picture of students right at the bottom of the page makes it look more interesting
-Should have added more color or text to make the contents page eye catching
-The text is a good size and very easy ti read
-A lot of blank space on the contents page, it can be good as it gets straight to the point but can also be bad because it is really easy to lose interest in





-Large picture with a smiling pupil, this represents a happy and good school environment.
-Picture of the pupil takes up a lot of the magazine
-Background color contrasts well with the picture but not a lot with the text
-Context page is very organised, page numbers are clear and the readers will be able to find what they are looking for very easily
- The size of the text could be a bit more bigger so that it is easier to read, also some of the main text could have been put in bold to stand out
-Typography is different and the important things are underlined.
-This contents page does not include a logo of the school

School magazine cover analysis

- The image of the boy is large and covers the whole magazine which shows good composition. The boy is very important as he is not covered.
-Imagery shows that the boy is working hard and looking very smart . This could catch the attention of many parents or carers.
-The color blue allows the W at the top left of the cover to stand out and makes it more effective by using different and unique typography
-Large cover lines with bright and bold colors can catch more attention from younger readers.
-Brief but relate able text all in capital letters
-Text is brighter than the image itself allowing the magazine to look more colorful and makes it easier to read.
-Colors of the text (blue, purple, and white) match with the boys tie so could resemble their school colors




-One big picture that covers most of the page but also includes a few smaller pictures.
-Colors of the text is used carefully making sure it stands out and is easier to read.
-Text is very basic and cover is not very informative..
-Aimed at those who are searching for a job.
-Although the name of the college is in capital letters and has its own place right at the top of the page it does not stand out enough.
-Background color contrasts very well with the color of the text.





-School logo is added on the top left.
-Main colors that stand out on the magazine cover include blue,white,red and yellow.
-No information about the school other than it being an art college and a high school.
--Color of the text contrasts well with the color of the background.
-Three pictures the same size right in the middle of the magazine lined up together, pictures only take up the center of the magazine.
-All three pictures are of the young students that go to the school.
-No unique typography is used and the cover is very basic.

initial idea

- The initial idea for our magazine will be for a secondary school

- The format will be quite formal and informative but at the same time very interesting

-  Cover will be eye catching, it will include a main background picture of the school

-  Color scheme of the magazine cover will be the same as the school colors, e,g red, black  and    white etc

- It will also include some small pictures connected to the basis on whats on the cover

- A wide range of information for secondary school and sixth form

- The main background picture will have to co ordinate with the font especially the color as we want  to put the text on the top of the photo which will fit together nicely