Magazine Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions

of real media products?

When planning my magazine,I planned it to look similar to

Kerrang! magazines, as Kerrang!Is a rock magazine like mine, so a lot of the thing in my magazine

Are similar to what you will find in A Kerrang magazine. For example, My

magazine has free posters, like Kerrang!, also the masthead of my Magazine

stretches right across the Top of my front cover, just like in

Kerrang!

My Magazines Masthead

Kerrang! Masthead

Kerrang! Free Posters

My Free Posters

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

The institution that most likely would distribute my magazine would Bauer Media Group.

The main reason for this is becauseBauer Media Group publishes a few Magazines like mine. For example Kerrang! which specialises in rock music, like my magazine.

Who would be the audience of yourmedia product?My magazine is a rock

magazine, so the target audience is, people who like rock music (specifically metal,post-hardcore, metalcore etc.)

I wouldn’t give it a specific age range as people of all ages can like rock musicAnd there isn’t any bad language or any graphical Images which aren’t suitable for young people.

Type of Music/bands:Metalcore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQBebfEXpcPost–Hardcore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6ofM315g8Metal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRNdveLnJI

How did you attract/address your audience?

Because my audience are people who like rock music, I use dark colours in most of the magazine to attract them as that is what most rock magazines are like.

As I used a quite well known band (Enter Shikari), that will attract people Who have heard of them and will make themWant to buy it and read the article.

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

the full product?

When I made my preliminary cover and contents,I have no clue how to use Photoshop properly, soA lot of the editing was very unprofessional. Also the way it was set out was amateur. AnExample is on the cover where it is hard to tell whatThe main sell-line is. My main magazine was a huge Improvement, it was much more organised, the editing Was much sharper and it looked a lot more professional.

Preliminary Cover

Preliminary Contents

What have you learned about technologies fromthe process of constructing this product?

Before I started making my magazine, I have absolutelyNo idea how to use Photoshop, and had to keep asking My friends, and Gary for help with almost everything, but by The end of making my magazine I can now say I can use Photoshop fairly well. Also before making my magazineI didn’t know how to edit pictures, and could barely use a Camera, but from doing the preliminary before the mainMagazine, I found it pretty easy to use the camera.

How does your media product represent Particular social groups?

The main social group my magazine represents are emos as my magazineHas many bands which are classes as emo bands and that emos listen to.My magazine also represents emos with the use of dark colours, which Are also seen in magazines like Kerrang! And Metalhammer.