Q6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q5) How did you attract/address your audience?

The thing that will apply to my audience specifically is the content inside the magazine. Things like the main cover image will be what attracts the audience eye first with it being of their favorite artist or band. This will then make them pick up the magazine seeing the plug and other competitions and prizes addressing the audience allowing them to win thing that appeal to them. The content of the magazine is likely to attract and address to the audience with cover stories the bands featured and mentioned in the contents page. I engaged with my audience most through the use of my contents page. This is what will apply to my audience specifically when buying the magazine to look at that content inside. The magazine front cover also applies specifically to the audience with the bands mentioned.

Q4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

My chosen target audience was aimed at people ages 16 to 25. The reason for this is because the type of music produced by the rock genre focuses their songs and albums to this market of people. This is because this particular genre use a lot of curse words and relation to sex and drugs this is because it is about rebelling form normal life and being your own individual. From researching this genre it shows the gender of the audience is mixed and is suitable for both. However there is a tiny increase in sales from males then females. To help me with picking the right conventions and features for this audience I created my own reader profile. Before I started constructing my product I did research looking at already released magazines of this genre to see how much they would cost and found out what audience they aim their magazine at.

Q3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 I started to look at different codes and conventions of magazines and the main things which feature on       them. I then decided I was going to base my magazine on rock music so I specifically started looking at       codes and conventions of rock magazines such as Rock Sound and Kerrang making a liarr analysis for a main cover, contence page and a double page spread of a Kerrang magazine. Looking at how they linked all three together and at certain colour schemes, fonts, and layout and deciding which ones I was going to use to create a realistic product that will appeal to my audience and sub-audience. The colour scheme on my magazine is black, white, red and some yellow; this is because these are the colours that are widely used in rock magazines and connote different things to an audience whilst also stating a specific genre.

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I looked at the fonts used for the masthead of rock magazines such as Kerrang; it has a cracked font to represent how loud the genre of music is, and a sigh of rebellion.  Rock Sound is also cracked slightly but has a much simpler font than kerrang. So I have chosen to have my font with breakages in it so it is similar and represent the same thing, but I then combined it with the simple title from rock sound to make it original

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Looking at Kerrang for my style and layout influence I created my final products. I then did a liarr analysis to make sure I had included all the main codes and conventions of a magazine and the less obvious ones that link with certain genres of magazine, rock.  In doing so I was able to see if all of my products are believable and realistic. I have shown clear links between the three products by using the same colour scheme, and font throughout. The font used helps create that rebellious rock star image which is then reinforced by the heavy use of black and red.  I have also place an image of the same model on all three of my products to show a clear link between them and place a little bit of the article on each of them. I have also added piercings and tattoos to my model as most rock stars have them as well as a crazy hair colour, red. This helps connote the rock genre as well as like my products with a certain audience and social group.

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Product Influences

Double page spread

Contence page

Article

Evaluation

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/adress your audience?
• What have you lernt about technologies from the oprocess of constructing product?
• looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Deadlines

14/02/14 - front page, contence page, double page spread and all research/ design process
11/04/14 - Evaluation and any updates to products
15/05/14 - final grade sent to examiner

Detailed draft-contence page