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

From the designing of my magazine I have learned various things about technologies that can help you to make a magazine. A website I have used largely to help me, is www.dafont.com which has various different fonts, which are often more bold and outstanding than the ones that you are limited to use on photoshop. These can be print screened onto photo shopped and cropped, and put onto their own layer so you can experiment them on your magazine cover. I learnt a lot about using photoshop, I had previously used it at gcse to make a collage which involved cutting out using the magic wand and lasso tools to cut out pictures and add on top of a background layer so this gave me a headstart as this is what a lot of making the magazine depends on. A new thing I learnt on photoshop in the magazine making process was how to use a grid view, so I could make sure everything was lined up straightly and everything was pristine. I also used the features in different ways, for example I learnt how to use the box making tool, the text tool, and the fill tool, to make a caption box, and also banners, something I hadn’t previously made. Also in the planning and research stage I learnt how to use animoto, which I discovered was a brilliant and professional looking way to cast out ideas, and more effective than a powerpoint and talking throught your ideas.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?FINAL

My magazine is aimed towards mainly the Young Alts. They are youngsters who are looking for something different and something that not everybody else listens too. Despite this they are open minded and do not dismiss the music tastes of others. Too attract these sort of audiences on the front cover, I have gone for a magazine which offers something different to other magazines, and focuses almost entirely on underground bands. Therefore it is really offering something different and gives them the chance to discover their new favourite band, and feel individual about it, this is the unique selling point of my magazine. As well as this, I included rock bands that are more well known, but appeal to the Young Alts, as they are not too poppy or chart music. I included these in the double page spread interview with bands such as, Green Day, Nirvana, Blink 182, and Weezer being mentioned. This appeals to the main audience of Young Alts as this is the type of music they are likely to listen to, and when they see that the artists they like are included in the magazine, as well as the uniqueness of the small bands that the magazine is centred around.

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

The people who are the audience of my magazine would do a lot of shopping at HMV, because they are mainly music fanatics and HMV is the biggest place known for music, they are also likely to shop at smaller, more independent music shops, as HMV is very mainstream, whereas my magazine promotes a lot of smaller bands who are less well known, and may not be sold at HMV, and more likely to be sold at independent shops, such as Rockaboom. My magazine is a rock/metal magazine much like Kerrang magazine, so the readers are likely to listen to well known rock bands such as Foo Fighters, Green Day, Slipknot and Nirvana, however the magazine is aimed a lot towards small bands, so the readers will listen probably to a lot of independent, unknown, underground new bands, such as Hawk Eyes and Dangerous! The readers music is not likely to be limited to only new bands, but more than likely they will listen to a lot of new music, is that is probably the magazines main appeal. On television the readers of my magazine are likely to watch music television stations such as Kerrang! Tv and Scuzz Tv, as it is aimed towards people who are big music fans, rather than casual listeners, meaning they will listen to music whenever they get the chance, including on tv. When they want a break from music, the television they watch probably would consist of comedy programmes such as ‘Mock The Week’ and it is unlikely that they would watch any reality tv shows such as the x factor or any gossipy television, as rock music is part of there life, it is a more rebellious genre than pop music as it pushes more boundaries, so the readers are probably looking for some outrageous, boundary pushing comedy to laugh at rather than chatty, gossipy tv programmes.

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

Bauer media group distributes Kerrang! Magazine, which is the main influence of my magazine Turborock. The audience of the magazine Kerrang is 15-35 year olds, male. This is similar to my target audience. They also distribute Q magazine, which is fairly similar just with a slightly different genre of music. Therefore these are likely to look at my magazine as clearly they specialise in selling this type of male orientated, music magazine. Both of these magazines despite being mainly aimed towards a male audience, also have a fairly high female readership. This is perfect for my magazine, as I don’t want it to be limited to just males, but, especially when it comes to less well known, smaller music, males are who I believe to be the slightly bigger audience, but music is a multi-gendered thing.

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

My magazine photo is of the singer of a band who I once saw, and took pictures when I saw them. I thought that he was a fitting model for my magazine because the way the genre of the magazine links in with the look of my model. Often the rock music world is associated with youths who dress slightly different to normal people who dont listen to heavy or rock music. One way that my model represents the group of people the magazine is aimed for is with his clear on show Tattoo's. If you looked at a picture of this man normally, you would probably be able to tell that he listens to rock music just from his tattoo's or by the clothe's he wears. This could also draw people in because of his fashion, even if they don't know the band, because they think he looks cool. He also wears a vest, which is often associated with rock n' rollers, and skinny jeans, and this shows that he dresses very young despite being about 25 years old, showing that he is a good man to represent the magazine as he fits in with the genre and with the people who may be likely to read it.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines) DRAFT

As my magazine is a rock music magazine, I felt that I should use some of the design ideas of other rock magazines, and mainly the most successful and well known magazine, kerrang. This magazine uses black, red, white and yellow as its main colour pallete, in my magazine I used the same colour pallette, apart from the colour yellow as I didnt think there was enough on my cover to spread between 4 colours to a good effect. Another way which I was inspired by Kerrang! magazine was with the usage of sub titles and then a small description of article down the left hand side on the page, above the title. This gives the reader a good idea of what is in the magazine without revealing too much. The main cover line of this magazine is also similarly represented too mine, a qoute is givin underneath a slanted title. This quote gives the reader an idea of the attitude of the artist or the content of the interview/article. There is also a banner at the bottom of this magazine, as their is similarly in mine, this gives readers who aren't already attracted by the content of the magazine further information and more advertisement. Fans of the bands listed in this banner may now opt to buy the magazine.

Final Design For My Magazine