2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Page is split up
I have stuck to many into grid of
different conventions 3x3 squares
when designing my
magazine. I have
attempted to use the
rule of thirds in my
media magazine. The
straplines are kept on
either side of the page
with main image in the
middle. The cover model
has his eyes roughly one
third down the page.
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have also used the
convention of having a 50/50
split for my double page
spread. 50/50 split isn’t the
main convention used in
magazine though, but it is
the one I chose to use. I have
used text entirely on one
page and the 2nd page with
images.
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have however challenged
this convention by using a
further 50/50 split on the
second page for two images.
I have also put the text on
the right page instead of the
left which is the how it is
usually set when using a
50/50 split.
5. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
My magazine was designed
to be aimed at teenagers
and young adults. The styles
I have used in my magazine
reflect this e.g. the font isn’t
straight and clean, it is more
rough a style popular with
teenagers. The font colours
are very dark which can be
associated with teenagers.
I have however added in
some brighter colours so
that it would appeal to other
readers as well.
6. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
The genre used in my
magazine is rock. This
is aimed particularly
at the rocker and emo
cultures. I used the
flame effects on my
front cover to further
emphasise this. Fire is
usually shown to be
linked with anarchists
which in turn are
usually linked to
rockers.
7. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
My magazine mainly
represents males. The
type of music ‘rock’ is
usually aimed at males
therefore I tried to aim
my magazine at males
in particular. I have used
very dark fonts so that
it is still associated with
rock but also brighter
colours for other parts
of the magazine e.g. the
font.
8. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
My magazine is not aimed at any particular
race, ethnicity, social class or disability. It
mainly covers age and gender.
9. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
During my research and planning I looked at
multiple publishers that could possibly publish
my magazine. A few of the publishers I looked
at were IPC, Bauer Media and Emap. I looked
at whether or not they already published rock
magazines and how successful they are.
10. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
IPC – IPC has a lot of magazines already, and a
large number of those are very successful. But
it already has a long established iconic rock
title, NME.
Because they are unlikely to publish a
magazine with same genre IPC is unsuitable to
publish my magazine.
11. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
Bauer Media – Bauer mainly publish
crossword and puzzle books but they do have
a few magazines.
Bauer also has a rock magazine Kerrang! A
highly successful magazine, so they would be
less likely to publish mine.
12. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
Emap – Mainly publishes business magazines
and so is unsuitable to be the publisher of my
magazine.
Future PLC – They already have a long list of
magazines related to rock and specific aspects
of rock and so they would be unsuitable to be
my publisher.
13. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
Haymarket Media Group – Haymarket publish
a small range of magazines mainly car
magazines. As they do not have any music
magazines this publisher would be the best
one for my magazine.
14. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
The best publisher for my magazine would be
Haymarket. It is a successful publisher of
magazines and does not have any other music
magazines, which means it would be more
likely to publish my magazine.
15. Who would the audience be for your
media product?
The audience for my magazine would mainly
be teenagers specifically males aged 14 +.
The rock genre is mainly for males with social
class of A, B, C1 and C2. This is because of
what some of the music
represents, particularly in my
magazine, anarchy and chaos.
There is no particular ethnicity that my
magazine is aimed at.
16. How did you attract/address your
audience?
I have used many different aspects to attract
the audience for my magazine. I have used
many dark fonts to appeal to the emo/rocker
cultures.
17. How did you attract/address your
audience?
I have also added the effect of flames to the
front cover as it could seen that it symbolises
anarchy a theme of rock.
18. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I used the camera to
take photos for my
magazine
I USB wire to transfer all of my
images onto the computer then
used different programs to create
my magazine
19. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
Using the
polygonal lasso
tool I could select
parts of my image
to perform cut-
outs
I drew around my
image with the lasso
tool so that I could
manipulate it
20. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I can use the history
Using the auto feature to undo any
levels tool I could mistakes I’ve made
adjust the image
to look better
21. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
Auto shapes
allowed me to
Using the
create a puff
gradient tool I
for my front
was able to
cover
create the flame
effect for my
front cover
22. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
Increasing the
opacity allows the
outline to
become thicker
I used the stroke
tool to add an I chose the
outline to my font colour that
and make it stand would be on the
out more. outline
23. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I created bands on my
contents page to
separate each different
section
I used different colours
to make my font stand
out. I was able to
change the different
colours to customize
each colour
24. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
The text is separated into
different columns which I
was able to cause them to
flow into each other to
create a seamless article
25. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I used the website Slide
share to upload my
power points so that I
could upload them to
Blogger
26. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I uploaded all of my
PowerPoint's onto
the blog. This way
they could all be
presented easily and
the blog would be
easy to navigate.
27. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
I have learnt many
different things since my
preliminary task. Overall I
was able to create a much
different magazine to my
original one. I have
managed to completely
redesign my front cover in
a different way to the
original one. I have stylised
the fonts and added a
much more complex
font, this shows I have
improved on my
preliminary task and have
28. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
My contents page has
been completely changed
from the preliminary
version. I have removed
almost all dead
space, which was a
problem with my first
contents page. I have
however stuck to the
bands around the title. On
the contents page I feel
that I have learned to use
up more space and
organise my titles more
carefully.
29. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
Overall I would say that I
have learnt quite a lot in
the progression between
my two magazines as they
both are very different
with obvious
improvements between all
of them. I think that I have
learned to use the
technology better and this
has been reflected in my
magazine.