FINAL MEDIA PRODUCT

FINAL PRELIMINARY TASK

1. In what ways does your media product use, develope and challenge the forms and conventions of real media products.

In todays lesson i looked at answering the question 'in what ways does your media product, use, develope and challenge the forms and conventions of a real media product?.'
To do this i evaluated whether i had used the codes and conventions of a music magazine.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Obviously the main representation accurse in my front cover.  My main image for my front cover is a male, which suggest my magazines social group may be male orientated. He has longish dark hair which looks scruffy and is also holding a guitar this suggest that people within the social group are usually involved with playing music as well as listening to music. He is posing in a very confident, wild manner this also suggests that people within the social group are confident and behave in a wild manner thus attracting the social group. Moreover All of the bands or people named on my front on my front cover are male, showing that most of my target audience are male.

My double page spread contains an article on a 'male' rock band. all members are male this tells us that the social group is built up of mainly males. Moreover the language used in my double page spread is informal and uses swearing, this portrays the social group as rebellious therefore attracting the target audience.  The photograph used in my double page spread is very striking, the band look ‘fun’ and therefore suggests that the social group is very fun and out going.

 My magazine features things like ‘Duff and the bottle’ which suggest that the social group is rebellious and extreme this would attract the social group appealing to there interest. Moreover the photography used is adventurous and stresses individuality. E.g. the photograph of Paul for the contents page shows him ‘swearing’ in a pose suggesting that this genre breaks the rules and has attitude, attracting the social group. In addition the photographs show a lot about the social group as they are not mainstream and represent a rebellious, individual look. E.g. they have big striking hair that stands out thus attracting the social group, which would appreciate the look.

3.What kind of media institution might Distribute your media product and why?

I created a powerpoint to answer question 3 to show a range of media skills in which i can use.

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4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Sarah Jones

Age 18, female.

She goes to weatherhead high school, studying Health and social care and English and works in Tesco every sunday

Her favourite bands are Skin dread, Linkin park, Faith no more, Marilyn Manson and Evanescence.

Shes been to see kill swt#itch engange and skin dread in concert and goes to Lowlands festival every year in Holland. She likes going out with friends (usually the pub), listening to music and going to local gigs to see her friends bands.

Sarah buys Kerrang every week as she loves the bands they feature.

she dresses very casually, usually in skinny jeans, a t-shirt and leather jacket.

Sean Mcmin-Davies

Age 18, male.

sean goes to weatherhead high school and is studying Music, English language and sociology.

His favourite bands are The red hot chili pepers, AC.DC, Led Zeplin and Foo fighters.

Hes played bass for 8 years and has been in a rock band called 'Hippys on the hill' since 2006, who are now managed by ITL management. They play Gigs in local venues like The O2 accademy, Zanzi bar and The picket as well as venues in places such as London.

He attends Download and Reading festivals every year.

He loves listening to music and spending time with friends in his spare time.

He buys Q magazine which he buys monthly.

His usual dress is skinny jeans and a band top.

4. My target audience.

when creating the profiles on my target audience i found that their favourite bands were Led zeplin, Foo fighters, Skindred and Faith no more. Here are some examples of these bands...

5. how does your media product attract/address your target audience?

To attract my audience i looked through a range of music magazines of the same genre and also made a questionnaire into what things my target audience would like in their magazine. eg. i asked what their favourite colour was, the most popular colour was green and i have therefore used a green colour scheme for my front cover. i also used short coverlines, bold lettering and bright colours to attract my audience. moreover i dressed my models in clothing to suit the genre e.g. my contents page features models dressed in dark, alternative clothing of the rock style this will therefore attract an audience of the same style. the main image on my front cover includes the model holding a guitar this will attract my target audience who are interested in that type of music or instruments. my photographs also convey a sence of attitude and rebelion which will attract my audience and gain their attention. in addition i used informal language and addressed my audience directly, which would attreact them to this magazine as it is one the same level as they are, rather than using elaborate language which they might not understand.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back on your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the prcess form it to the final product.

As you can see looking at my preliminary task and my actual media product my skills on Photoshop have improved extremely. i have also learnt more about codes and conventions of a music magazine and therefore my actual media task looks more professional and looks more like a magazine. Moreover my Photography skills have been developed as i am now aware of m.e.s and can therefore take a more interesting photograph with the relevant m.e.s. In addition i have become a lot more creative by looking at other music magazines. i have also became familiar with Quark where i can create professional looking contents and articles. i have also learnt camera angles e.g. mid shot, long shot and close up and used them when taking my pictures. i have learned to use less text in my sub lines to draw the reader in. Moreover i have developed knowledge about the size of writing, through researching the codes and conventions, meaning that my main task has relevant font times and font titles and all the cover lines are the same font and size unlike on my preliminary task, this makes it look more professional.
I preferred creating the music magazine rather than the school magazine as i got to write and take pictures about something i am interested about, as well as having more knowledge of creating a magazine which therefore made it more enjoyable.

FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPEAD

This is my final double page spread.

This is my final contents page for my music magazine.

Editing my contents page.

when creating my contents page i first began by adding the word 'CONTENTS' to the top of the page, establising to the audience that this is the contents page. i used black and bold writing to make the heading stand out.

 

I then added my text in two seperate colums alowing space for my pictures. i used the linking tool to drag my text along to the next colum. i also used a line between both colums to act as a divider between both.

 

I then started to add my pictures in using a picture box and then scaling my picture to the box. This took along time as i had to keep rearranging my pictures so that they would all fit in as a collage. i chose my main image as it stands out with a very strong pose and shows attitude and is a complimantary style to the genre of my magazine



After rearranging all my pictures to fit right i then added my magazine title to the top of the page in the same font as i used on the front cover. i also added the name of my magazine and date at the bottom of the page below the guidelines in size 7 font, following the codes and conventions of a magazine contents page.

 



Once i was happy with the arrangement of my pictures i then added page numbers to the pictures, following the codes and conventions of a contents page and allowing the audience to see what picture relates to what article.

 

FINAL FRONT COVER.

This is my final music magazine front cover.

Editing 2

I began to edit my front cover, changing the main image and the mast head as the mast head did not fit the genre of my magazine.

i  changed my main image and added more bands to the 'PLUS'. I also got rid of the 'free poster' as this does not follow the codes and conventions of this genre of music magazine.

I then created a new mast head using a simple, bold font which is more affective and stands out more than the old one. i used regular impact and added the bevel and emboss effect. i also changed my positioning statement 'REAL AND LOUD' making it smaller and positioning it to the left, below the mast head, following the codes and conventions further. i also changed the fot in order to make it stand out more and fit the genre.



I then edited the main coverline making it white to stand out from the other coverlines as they are yellow. I also added more coverlines and made my sublines shorter

I then experimented with the possitioning of the coverlines, to see which looked best. i also made the gap between the sublines and coverlines smaller. I then added '...' between every band name on my plus strip as you couldnt read the names properly. i then added the date and price in the left corner underneath the mast head.

Editing

Production of front cover.

When creating my front cover, i used Adobe Photoshop to crop and edit my images and to create my front cover.

I created my masthead by using Bevel and emboss to create the white shadow around the lettering and to add depth to the lettering. i also used drop shadow effect to define the white shadows around the letters, as well as using an inner glow and stroke to create the black between the white text and shadow.

I then used the magnetic lasso tool and the eraser tool to cut my image out. i then added the image to my front cover and used exposure to change the light contrast making the colours look more darker and more defined which goes with the rock genre of magazine.

I then created the green strip at the bottom using shapes and used bevel and emboss to give it depth. Then added the buzz word and writing.



I then created another shape and used bevel and emboss on this to give depth. I then added photographs which i have taken to be posters.

I then created my main headline, again using bevel and emboss and made it stand out by having it larger than my other text. I also made the subline a white colour with a tint of green to compliment my colour scheme.

I then created my other coverlines using the same tools, but making them smaller to make the main coverline stand out more.

I added the rest of my coverlines, a barcode, my ...... and the date.

FINAL FRONT COVER. first draft

Draft of front cover.

In todays lesson we were told to design our front covers and contents page on paper.