2. This is the front cover for my music
magazine and its contents page for
“blind witness”
…and the double page spread for my
magazine with a article about the music
festival, Sonisphere.
3. My Music magazine is aimed at a target
audience of males aged 16-21 who enjoy the
genre of rock music. This magazine will feature
local bands from the rock genre, with images
and interviews of bands from the same genre.
4. These are other magazines
that share the same genre as
my magazine and share the
same layout.
5. When designing my magazine, I designed the layout on
other magazines that share the same genre as the
magazine that I was designing. From the example
magazine rock sound and my magazine blind witness, it
is clear to see the genre of the magazine and who the
audience is for my magazine. Both magazines use a
simple house style that indicates rock, with no bright
colours which is associated with pop and no “cheesy”
images of boy bands that also indicate pop magazines.
Both magazines share similarities, the cover images are
similar as they serious images, helping to give a dangerous
feel to the magazine which helps show the rock/metal genre
of the magazine.
6. Social groups…
• After doing some market research for my magazine and asking a select few what
they looked for in a magazine I found out that most people that liked the rock
genre, were 16-21 year olds. I found out that people who are into rock music also
share similar activities such as skateboarding, attending festivals and gigs and are
more out going people who enjoy parties rather than sitting at home doing
homework. After this study, I decided to try and include these activities in my
magazine to give the audience more content that they can relate to and then
hopefully continue to buy and read my magazine.
8. • My magazine attempts to attract the target audience by using the appropriate images are
traditionally associated with rock music, this will exclude all bright colours that will indicate
pop music, the image will try to avoid images of people smiling, happy is not the emotion
that rock music is associated with, normally serious, angry or sad.
• My magazine will need to keep the same house style throughout my magazine, using simple
text without any fancy writing as this will not show the rock genre that my audience will be
looking for in there magazines.
• The language that I used in my magazine was very informal, formal language is more for the
elder generation of music fans who enjoy classical, however as my magazine is aimed at
young adults ages 16-21, the language used was very informal, with the use of some slang
words to keep my readers attention and hopefully continue reading.
• For my audience to be attracted towards the magazine, I would need to contain the correct
content in my magazine for the audience to want to read my magazine. The content I used
are gigs, festivals, new bands, new release, all things that from research I know my audience
is looking for in a magazine.
9. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions or real media products?
10. My magazine uses forms and conventions of real media in many ways, like most mastheads
they lay behind the cover image yet still being able to be recognised and still able to be read.
I chose to do this with my magazine as most other rock magazine like kerrang and rock
sound do the same. Also I used cover lines on my front cover, which is a traditional form of
most magazines.
Another form and convention of a real media product that
I used is the house style of my magazine, with the simple
Colours of black white and red, this is similar to other rock
Magazines as they tend to not use bright colours as they
do not represent the rock genre.
I also used a skyline on my magazine that is a convention of
A real media product that most magazines use, I decided to
Also include one on my magazine and this will hopefully
Persuade the audience to read my magazine.
11. • Ways in which I challenge forms and
conventions or a real media product is
that I did not use a left third on my
magazine, the images that I used on
my magazine are generally on the
bottom half of my magazine along
with the pull quotes and cover lines,
leaving the top half of my magazine
for the large proportion of the cover
image that is visible.
12. What I have learnt?
When I started this magazine work, I was able to use a computer quite well however
my Photoshop and designing skills were very poor. Throughout the project I have
developed my Photoshop skills and have become very confident with using the
programme, also I have learnt the basic forms and conventions of a real media product
and how to use, challenge and develop them within my magazine.
Since using the computer to create my magazine I have been introduced to new
websites that I can use to design my magazine and develop my ideas, such as da font,
slideshare and prezzi.
