With my magazine I plan to follow similar codes and conventions that can relate to existing magazines such as Kerrang and Rocksound that I have researched, this means I will include things such as Bold text, Busy front and bright eye catching colours, however I will challenge some forms and conventions by setting out my content page in a way I feel is organised fully yet attracts eye catching attention like Kerrang does I also used a different type of shot for my front cover as I use a mid-shot with an outer glow to highlight its importance, the image I also used is a chocolate box although I did not make it a full on smile as I thought this would not be suitable for my rock magazine.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I plan for my magazine to represent young males between 14-25 who are fans of rock, I also want to show that Rock fans are not all full metal heads and listen to other rock sub genres such as indie rock. My magazine will represent Rock as being as popular as things such as RNB and Rap.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Because of the research I have done for Kerrang I have looked into the institution that publishes them which is Bauer Media Group, because my magazine has similar conventions to that of Kerrang but gives something else to offer I figure that this institution would be interested in distributing my magazine, Bauer Media's Advertising Production Department aims to provide advertisers with a consistently exceptional level of service, so there whole institution is basically revolved around advertisement in magazines, I would think that my magazine could offer unique space in terms of Rock advertisements.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
As my genre for this magazine is Indie Rock I will make the target audience for my rock magazine white middle class rebellious teens between the ages of 14-25 who are looking for some kind of output, the gender would be male by the use of colours as non are feminine at all. The type of music I will be representing is indie-rock as heavy metal is more screaming and destroying everything as given in most stereotypes, indie Rock will be identified more by the bands I will have on my magazine such as linkin park, foo fighters and three days grace, it can also be identified by the type of outfit that my model is wearing, with the shirt and tie, with the leather jacket to make it known that it is still rock. Another reason why I targeted teens are mainly targeted is because they are at the age where they are more disruptive and ignore higher authority such as parents, the crazy rock lifestyle that my magazine contains would be the kind that they would like to live which is seen through these magazines.
How did you attract/address your audience?
I will attract my audience by using bright red colours like red that stand for the anger and passion in Rock and make the text stand out to grab the eyes of potential customers for it, I will make the genre recognisable from a distance so if would be in a shop people can tell straight away the genre that it is.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Considering I had no previous knowledge of InDesign and how I have learnt all these skills needed, I feel as if I have greatly improved sense my first magazine which barely had any codes and conventions in it and way to much whitespace, the content page also had a dramatic change as I learned more codes and conventions and different InDesign skills. Along with that I have also improved with managing the time I have so I can plan and make my product effectively instead of rushing everything at last a last minute.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From this I have learnt how to get rid of any background that my image contains on Photoshop and effectively put it in InDesign among a magazine background. I have learnt in InDesign you can lock different layers so they are not effected when editing your magazine, InDesign has helped me a lot because without it I would not of been able to create my magazine.
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