Friday 30 March 2012
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (FINAL)
From my school magazine project to my music magazine project I have learnt and progressed my skills in technology understanding and usage. I had previous experience in Photoshop working with the lasso and magic wand tool but I gained a greater usage of layering and effect tools to make my magazine as professional as possible. The website http://www.dafont.com/ was also another way in which I used technology to improve my magazine. Dafont have a series of imaginative and theme specified fonts which programmes like IPhoto and Photoshop lacked. These could be print screened into Photoshop, cropped, re-coloured and placed on any part of the magazine I desired. I also learnt how to use programmes more efficiently such as Animoto and IMovie when creating my Pitch and voice over documentary's. I learnt how to make my information and presentation look allot more professional and personal to the genre and target audience I was trying to reach.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product? (FINAL)
My magazine audience would be primarily Young Alternative groups but could attract such groups such as Indie Scenesters or Skaters. Most of this target group shop at stores such as HMV to find various mainstream musicians/bands but may shop at more independent online shops and search engines to find new music they enjoy such as Band Camp or YouTube recommended playlists. This group is always looking for more unknown and alternative bands so my magazine style suits the larger quantity of the group but it also offers news on mainstream artists within the rock/indie genre so this will relate to the Indie Scenesters and the Skaters. A large amount of my target audience will all wear similar clothing usually from mainstream shops such as Top Man & Top Shop so this similar clothing will be on the artists of my magazine therefore the audience increasingly relating to the contents. My audience will read magazines such as NME, Q, Kerrang and possibly Rock sound so essential bands such as Green Day, Muse and The Kooks have to be mentioned or featured to gain the audiences attention because this will be bands a large range of the group will listen to, but I also have to ensure that the new alternative bands coming through the music industry such as Francesqa, The Joy Formidable and The Ettes relate or have similar styles e.g. instruments, genre, clothes, hobbies, to these larger more well known bands so they can relate to these “unknown”, “underground” bands. My audience also watch large amounts of television, this consisting of programs such as Mock The Week, QI, Russell Howard and Jackass. This is because the genre is very laid back and the target audience are influenced by music that consists of fun, energetic scenes, which pushes this target market group away from Emo and Scene Kids.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? (FINAL)
My artist Sammy James is reasonably similar to the Paramore front woman Hayley Williams. They both have similar fashion traites through clothing ranges like Topshop, River Island and through the same style e.g. skinny jeans, tops and jackets. They both enjoy simialr music, rock, indie and also being interested in mainstream pop icons. Thye have similar instrument hobbies as Sammy plays bass guitar and Hayley guitar whilst both playing tabourine parts within their bands songs. The Sammy artist is alot more confined within herself , quiet when around others she doesn't know intill on stage whilst the Hayley character is known for being always confident and having a large personality for example, loud, outragoues, strong opionated and this relates to both music genre's they create, Paramore being a stronger rock band whilst Ghosts being a more indie sound based band.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines) (FINAL)
Through researching the most highly rated magazines within their genres I found the most used conventions, and how professional magazines used them to promote and look aesthetically pleasing to the target audience. Through this I found the most popular front page layouts known as the “F” and “Z” format. I particularly liked the “F” format because it allowed cover lines to run down the left hand side with the main cover line standing out across the page, so I decided to base my front cover around this.
When researching I particularly looked at Kerrang and NME magazine and took inspiration from the way both magazines set up their double page spreads. On one side they had the main article with “News” tabs and such and on the left page have an image relating to the article and I knew I wanted to set my article similar to this maybe having a quote or fact text box with the main image. I also took inspiration from Q magazine when deciding how to set out my contents page. I decided that I wanted to use large coloured rectangular text box’s to split the contents into different sub-headings and I also wanted to have images that would preview stories inside.
I decided to look at magazines that were similar to the genre I had decided indie and rock so I researched allot into Kerrang, NME, and Q magazines. When choosing my colour pallet I took allot of inspiration from NME and Q magazine because they were nearer the genre I was looking at. They frequently used the red, white and black colour scheme with the special change once in a while so I knew this would be appropriate scheme for my magazine. Using this colour scheme is very useful and I also decided to develop the use of the colours with changing certain letter colours in a word to make different words and different letters stand out.
Researching magazine’s that had a similar genre was very important when creating my magazine and also had a massive influence on my decision making because you can analyse and relate to why they have used certain conventions to gain an audience and to promote their magazine to the target market.
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