Final Post

Evaluation Question Seven Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full prod?

These are the two different front covers for my media work. The first being the preliminary task and the second being the full production. It's quite obvious that my skills in photoshop have increased massively! My photography skills have also increased a lot since the preliminary task too. The composition of the shots on my music magazine are a lot more professional than the ones i had taken for my college magazine. I also got the opportunity to learn how to use photoshop properly whilst making these magazines and it was interesting to learn how to make a professional magazine and it was also fun but challenging to do.

Evaluation Question Six What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question Six What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? on Prezi

Evaluation Question 5 How did you attract/address your audience?

This is my front cover and contents page i made. I tried to appeal to my audience by using different techniques that kerrang, rocksound and nme use. I used the skyline, puffs and smaller images which all three of my magazines use, i also used a font (which i got from www.dafont.com) that was similar to the kerrang font. I used this font for my sell lines. I also downloaded another film which i used for the list of bands on the right hand side of my contents page, this font is similar used on the cover of rocksound. 

My colour scheme was blue, purple, black and a reddy pink. I didn't want to use the typical red, black and white colour scheme. I used a variation of fonts just like a professional magazine would. 

I tried to attract my audience through costumes by dressing my models in different clothes which would attract different stereotypes. For my front cover i had Kayla wear a black vest, light blue ripped jeans and a black and grey starry scarf. 

I got Kayla to post with one arm behind her head after seeing an issue of kerrang where Hayley Williams was modelled in a similar position. I chose this pose because i thought it would help attract my audience who buys Kerrang to come and buy my product as it looks like the sort of thing they would like.


I also used the Kerrang Style font for my sell line. I had previously seen this issue of Kerrang with Oli Sykes on the cover, and in white lettering it had 'BRING ME THE HORIZON' then in yellow letters it had 'OLI SYKES'. I tried to replicate this by using the words 'I'M BACK' then putting  'KAYLA WARD' in larger lettering. All of the writing was written in black but the smaller text outlined in purple and the larger text outlined in red/pink. I did it like this rather than completely copy the kerrang cover and the text is still different.
Contents
For my contents page i very much styled it like a rocksound contents, a simple list of pages and what was on each of them. I used three images on my contents page. I used one of my model Lauren, who also was on a smaller image on my front cover, a close up of my model Kayla who was on the cover too, and finally a shot of the singer from The King Blues, that i took myself over a year ago at a concert, i used this images as a live poster, which is the kind of thing that music magazines do. I also divided my contents page into six different sections; news, live reviews, features, gig guides, albums and extras! I did this to appeal to my audience, as when i read magazines and i am looking for something in particular for example an album review, i would be able to look in the contents and find whereabouts to go.

This is my double page spread for my product, i tried to lay it out more like an NME dps. I tried to keep it pretty simplistic, yet effective. I took two different pictures of my model aaron and altered the lighting and cropped the pictures so they look roughly at the same height. I added a smaller caption in the bottom right hand corner saying ' .. double trouble?' I did this to give of the effect that there was two people, and that there would be twice as much trouble. 

I used this  double page spread , from NME of Lily Allen. I tried to use a similar effect with my sell line on the left page,  a quote taken out the text. For the other page i didn't use the images in the same as this, but tried to keep it pretty simple like this is. 

Feedback Videos. 
Here are some feedback videos i received about my products. 

From these feedback videos i received from my peers i have learnt what they thought about my magazine and what it looks like from another persons perspective. They all stated whether they could tell what genre it was and most of them got the gist that it was a rock magazine. They also said what caught their eyes when first looking at my product, and why it stands out. They also gave me strengths and weaknesses which gives me the opportunity to improve my product knowing what they audience wants. They stated whether or not they would buy and why they would or wouldn't. I feel this feedback i received from my peers is very important and the constructive criticism and praises i received for my products helped me learn about my own product from the audiences viewpoint. 

Evaluation Question 4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Who would be the audience for your media product?


To demonstrate who the audience for my media product was i made a glogster. I added pictures of different bands, clothes, tv shows and magazines that my audience likes. I also briefly stated what my age group it was aimed at and what stereotypes i was aiming it at. This was an easy and pretty visual way to represent who my audience was. 

Evaluation Question 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

When creating my product i wanted to create hybrid genre of magazine - indie/rock to come a cross between NME, rocksound and kerrang. I chose to make it like this as i thought it would be a slightly different and it would appeal to three seperate audiences. You would get three lots of revenue as you would get the readers from, Kerrang, Rocksound and NME buying the magazine due to its hybrid genre. I would aim to be able to sell my product in a newsagents or a big supermarket, but that would take time to get to that stature. I would try and build up a profile by distributing it independently online or through small news agents then to get it independently into a large store on sale.. 
I think the kind of company who would distribute my magazine would be companies such as ICP Media or bauer media who publish Kerrang and NME however this would be costly so i would try and set it up as an independent to make the money to distribute through larger companies such as ICP or bauer. 
Although my magazine is very similar to rocksound, NME or kerrang it does have some differences. Whereas NME generally focuses around the indie genre, and rocksound focus around the rock metal/genre mine combines the two with added extras such as punk and electro and dance music. I chose to make it this way as i would like to see a magazine like this be made as i would probably buy it.   


Bauer media also distributes Kerrang magazine, i found this out during my research and planning and it is now coming in handy. Kerrang is distributed throughout the UK aswell as worldwide.
ICP media distributes NME and it is one of the longest running music magazines and is distributed weekly all over the world.


I would hope that one of these two institutions may distribute my product but if not i would use web 2.0 to establish a fanbase for my product to then go to a distributor and ask them to consider distributing my product. 

Why would these instituions distribute my product?
i believe that they would distribute my magazine as they would recieve a cut of the profits and there would be three lots of profits going to me as there would be the readers from three different magazines buying mine hopefully, so i think this would appeal to the distributors to invest in my magazine and if there was already an established fanbase it may encourage them to invest as they would be guaranteed some kind of profit.