Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

How does your magazine convey the representation of social groups?

How my magazine follows the represtation of social groups

My magazine appeals to the social group of punk-rockers through the stareotypical red, black and white colour scheme throughout, as red and black directly link to rock music and horror movies with red being a signifier for blood and black for darkness and night.
My front cover is constructed of many different images, the images depict the stareotypical ideology of a rock band with vibrant hair colours and confident facial expressions. My magazine converts the idea of rock from a male genre to more of a female outlook through the idea that my magazine is based on female rock icons of our era.
The use of the slanted sell line box gives the impression of carelesness which also conotes to my target audience of punk-pop-rock lovers through the idea that they love to be individualists.
My contents page follows the same idea with the female theme running through, it also has my colour scheme. One of the images on my contents page depicts a male guitarist in mid-air, this powerfully highlights the idea of the social group the magazine is directed towards through the abbrassive stance and the flicking long hair (as stareoptypically punk rocker males have long hair). The text is bold which conotes the typical rocker attitude of being bold and individualm whilste the background is minimalistic to give my images the right amount of exposure.
The title page of my double-page spread conveys the key theme I will be speaking of in my double-page spread. I have used a full bleed image to grab the audiences attention and make it obvious to who this is about, being female with black long hair which connotes to my target audience through the idea of punk-rockers typically having long hair of either very dark or very light coloured hair. The black borders stand out strongly highlighting the strong individualist nature of my target audience.

In what ways does your product use, develope or challenge forms of real media product?

What have you learned about technologies from the process of construction of your product?

During the process of creating my product I explored a number of different
computer programmes and techniques of getting the needed results. The base
programme I was required to use was Adobe Photoshop. This is a programme
that allows me to create effective and professional looking magazines due
to the intricate details that you can look into. Adobe Photoshop is widely
used in the magazine industry to create professional magazines and edit
images effectively, this is why Adobe Photoshop was an ideal choice of
programme to use to begin creating my magazine.
I explored different ways of displaying my images, I played with variations
of back-drop from having a brick backrground to having a white back-drop. I
also played with colour by editing the background colour by changing it to
black and white to highlight the main picture, i reinforced this by editing
the brightness and contrast of the model of my image. This worked effectively
as the importance of my model to the double-page spread becomes clear.
I also effectively created a mood through my images by having the contrast
lowered to reinforce a dull mood, or had the brightness hightened to
highlight a up-beat feeling to my magazine.
I used variation in colour as photoshop offers these through swatches to keep
the colour scheme constant, yet this allowed me to make minor changes to shade
of the colour to match the mood of the page I was catering the colour too.
Photoshop lets you have complete creative freedom as you start with a blank
canvas and from there build into having a range of pages making up a magazine,
I fixed on the use of a constant black boarder as a base to my magazine to keep
my magazine consistant and well orginised. In some stages of making my magazine
I had difficulties performing tasks e.g. cutting out an image, painting in colour
etc. due to the use of many technical tools Photoshop has to offer yet overcame
these difficulties with help from teachers and youtube tutorials.
I also used a website to hold all my work as a database called 'Blogger', this
was an effective piece of technology which helped me keep track of what work I
had completed and effectively orginised my coursework. When i began using this
programme I had difficulties with posting with labels etc. yet with experience
I have learnt how to do numerous things on Blogger and it has been a great help
to me.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who Would Be the Audience for Your Media Product

What kind of institution might distribute your magazine

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How did you attract/address your audience?

The theme of my magazine is going to be punk pop/rock. My aim is going to be to engage the age range of 16-22 with a social class of B to D as the usual aspects of a reader of bands are individualists/aspirers therefore have the tendency to be artists/un-signed musicians. I chose this magazine as I noticed i would have the most knowledge in these magazines as I am a subscriber to "KERRANG", and as the audience fits the age range to which i belong I can use my personal opinions and the opinions of my class mates to create a magazine both engaging and pleasing to the eye. I would use some bright colours and try to keep the magazine as fitting as i could to the stereotypical punk pop/rock magazine as could. This would involve using a simplistic writing style and a minimalistic use of images. My images will be very band based as this is a main feature of this genre of magazine, some of my shots will include a have a background and others will have a simple white backdrop, by this I will try to keep the magazine interesting and original as readers of this age will have a sorter attention span than those of an older age. My colour scheme will hold the stereotypical punk colours of black and red and white commonly used by such bands as "Guns & Roses", "All Time Low", "Paramore" and "Asking Alexandria". As white is a signifier of peace and purity it contrasts to the black as a connotation for death and evil, I am very much into heavy reds and i believe this is a prominent colour with such colours as white and black.

My front cover will consist of a bold masthead of which will stand behind my models of which being a group long shot of the feature band in my magazine. This will draw in the audience as aspirers will want to know the journey of this band to where they are now. My models clothes will follow the colour scheme of the magazine. I will try to get a female in the front cover band to have the magazine appeal more to a female audience. My magazine will have simple sell lines running down the sides of the image and will have several smaller plug images below advertising other bands inside the magazine. There will be an advertised competition on the front cover to appeal to a target audience interested in trying to win free tickets to a gig etc. There will be a main sell line running over the band image which relates to the band, this would say something to the effect of...

"WE WANT YOU! AND THE WORLD"-(kerrang!)

The price and issue number will be displayed on the magazine giving clear reference to the cost of te magazine and if the buyer is a collector may want to keep this magazine as a collector’s item, which would make the issue number an important aspect of the magazine. The date will also be clearly displayed on the magazine as well as a catchy appealing tag line which will become familiar to the magazine over time.

My contents page will consists of many pages displayed in clear columns, I will use my colour scheme as reference between page number and page title in my magazine. I will use scattered images of bands on my contents page and by this I will keep my magazine entertaining for my target audience. My contents page will display links to the website of my magazine and suggest for the die-hard reader of the magazine to join my magazine on social networking sights to link to the zeitgeist of the time. My magazine contents will include a small mast head to keep the magazine relatable to the front cover and will follow the same colour scheme and font of text. I also will clearly display a page number at the bottom of my contents page to keep reference to the page number clear, I will use the same way of showing the page number throughout the magazine.