Final Designs

Here are my final designs for my Cover Page, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

Cover Page

 Contents 

 Double Page Spread

Evaluation - Questoin 7

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

Below is a prezi documentary, here I have explained what progressions I have made such as time management.

Evaluation - Question 6

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

I have been studying Media Studies since year 10 so I am very familiar with most of the programs that we use, but for the first time I have used the program In Design to create my cover page, contents and double page spread. I’m not that familiar with this program so at first it took some time to understand the tools and how to use the layer correctly. With this program I found it hard to use the layers, there was a lot of layers to be used and I created text, object or place a photograph on the wrong layer, this would mean that every object or text on that layer would get deleted or other layers would go over it there for certain objects couldn’t be seen. I found this very frustrating as parts of my work kept getting deleted.
To become more familiar with this program I went on “Google” to learn how to use certain tools and the layers. Here is a link that I went on to learn how to use the program:-   

http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/fantastic-indesign-tuts-from-vectortuts/

On this link it explains how to use everything on in design for colouring text to using the layers properly.

Through looking over my preliminary task and my GCSE work I have noticed that I don't use the right font in a situation. From doing better research and help from students in my class I now understand that to make a magazine look realistic everything has to relate to each other even the font. With my music magazine it has an Indie/Rock genre there for the font has to be bold and strong, if the font was in Italics the magazine would look unprofessional as the font wouldn't relate to anything on the magazine. With the font I also learnt that I was able to increase the gap between each letter and increase the length of a letter or word without changing the size of it.

Below I have shown the difference the font colours make to a magazine.

This is my final version with the text that I think suits the genre.

The text is bold like vlock letters clearly stands out to the audience.

 This is the the text with the italics as a font. I dont think this text works as well as the block lettered text. As you can see from the masthead above stands out more to the audience, the words are easier to read from close and far away. 

Evaluation - Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract/address my audience I have applied certain aspects used in an rock/indie magazine to my magazine, here is a indie/rock magazine as you can see that:-

v  The background colour is dark black already showing the audience that this is a rock magazine as dark colours are associated with rock music

v  With red writing; the colour red represents rage and anger, the black background contrasts well with the red writing, standing out clearly to the audience. Within this magazine every text cover red is in a block font, the name of the magazine is in a clear red block font, with a white outline clearly standing out to the audience.

v  Indie/rock magazine cover pages are usually quite messy , everything overlaps each other, the magazine cover page relates to the music that they perform, indie/rock music is quite manic and crazy, if this can be related onto the magazine the audience will see clearly that  this is a indie/rock magazine

v  Indie/Rock magazines only use three colours; they are normally red, white and black. These three colours have been purposely used the colour red represents anger, desire, passion and danger, black represents power, mystery and elegance and white represents mainly faith. These three colours have been purposely used as they explain the type of music that the band plays and how they perform. 

v  The smaller images used on the cover page are usually of the bands live performance or of one member of a band who is usually in trouble, the image is always a unique photograph, this makes the reader curious, leading them to read on through the magazine.

v  Below is a wordle, I have asks five pupils to describe my cover page, contents and double page spread few words they feel appropriate, I ask them "what attracted you to the cover page, contents and double page spread by the text, gaze theory, language/writing style". All of the words that were said have been place on the wordle; the bigger words have been used several times.

Typographic font 

 Here I have created another wordle containing words that the pupils gave me when I asked them "what was it about the text on my work reflected my Indie/Rock genre" The colour and font of the text is very important to get right on a music magazine, the colours and fonts have to reflect the type of genre, the audience should clearly be able to tell what type of genre the magazine is just by looking at the text. Throughout the three pages I produced I kept to the same fonts, if too many fonts are used pages will clash and the audience will get confused resulting in them not wanting to read through the rest of the magazine. Consistency has to be used for a successful magazine. I feel that the colour and the font that was used for my masthead was appropriate for the type of genre, the colour red is represented as dangerous, passionate and rage, these are world you would be able to use to talk about my genre. The background colour contrasted well with the red, therefore the masthead stood out clearly. 

Gaze Theory

The gaze is used in every magazine to attract mainly the opposite sex to buy the magazine, but also the same sex. The gaze theory works well with teenagers and young adults as they are always looking for a celebrity to "fall in love with" or idolise. Woman will be more inclined to buying a magazine if they are sexually attracted to the celebrity on the front page or if they idolize them, this works the same way for men. Therefore I have used a young male teenager with a "rock" look to pose in my magazine; this will attract more of the female sex to buy my magazine. To make sure that the image I had attracted teenage girls to my magazine I went and ask a variety of female pupils "what in the models look attracted you to this magazine". Below is a wordle that I have created what features attracted them to the model used on my magazine

By using a model that had the same look as a rock e.g. long hair, blank stare into the camera, the shirt with the top button open and other iconic features that the  Indie/Rock style follow.

Language/Writing Style

To relate more to my target audience I have used colloquial language throughout the entire magazine. Using formal or literal language the magazine will not appeal to them there as much as it would if I used colloquial language. Using colloquial language addresses my target audience directly. Below I have created a wordle to show the words the audience used to describe why the type of words used in the text attracted them to wanting to read the magazine.

 

Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I feel that the target audience for my magazine is from the age of 14 – 25, I feel that this is an appropriate age for my magazine. Although this is the average age for my magazine there will be a specific type of person that my magazine will appeal to. My magazine is of an Indie/rock genre therefore the magazine will only appeal to a variety of people. People who are into rock and indie music would enjoy my magazine rather than a person who is into hip-hop.
I have asked the same people I asked to describe my cover page, contents and double page spread to say who they think my target audience is and who the social group is.

What would be the target audiences age for my magazine?

Liam Evans
From looking at the magazine I can see that it is for an age of around about 16 - 25. I can tell this from the model as he is of the around about same age. The audience will find it easy to relate to the magazine.

Kristy Barrett
To me the magazine has an age group of 13 - about 18, the language used is colloquial there for children too you or adults won’t understand what certain words mean because they have been abbreviated or changed.

Ife Ahove
I think the target audiences age is from about 14 - 20ish , the magazine looks of a teenage age, the model is about this age therefore the audience can relate to this magazine and the model. Quotes from the band or band members are always put on cover pages and double page spreads, to fully understand what the band or band members might be going through you have to be of an older age to read between the lines of the quotes and article to understand the story that is being told.

What would be the target social audience for my magazine?

Liam Evans
The social target audience is of a rock/indie genre, you can see this from firstly the models pose. The model stares directly into the camera staring directly at the audience. The colours of the magazine also represent words that you can describe the genre by. 

Kristy Barrett 
I think that the social target audience is of a rock genre, the colours red, black and white are all strong bold colours that stand out to the audience. I feel that the colours represent what type of music is played in this case it would be of a rock genre. The text is also bold and clear standing out to the audience. Throughout cover page, contents and double page spread their colour of the background has been kept to a dark plain colour, this shows that the music genre can sometimes be dark and depressing, these are both words that can explain a rock genre magazine.

Ife Ahove
In my opinion the target social audience is of an indie/rock genre, the model that stares directly into the camera this is an iconic style for the cover page. The magazine also has realistic images of the artist/s performing this is a common convention with an indie/rock genre.  Throughout the magazine  

Evaluation - Question 3

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

The most common institution of music magazine to be distributed in is the newsagents. Newsagents distribute newspapers, gossip magazines, children’s magazines, sport magazines, music magazines etc. As my product is a music magazine, I feel that it would be appropriate to have the newsagents distribute my music magazine.


However other distributors could be ASDA, WHSmiths, boots etc. These places although won’t have such a variety of magazines they do sell the most popular magazines, these are fashion magazines, music magazines etc. If the audience knows that these companies are reliable trustworthy, the audience will be more inclined to go to that shop. Here is a selection of magazines’ in a distributor that would have my music magazine.

 I have also researched a well known distribution company for magazines. I know that"IPC Media" is a good distribution company because they produce over 60 media brands, therefore this company is worldwide. I have researched a bit into this distribution company as they have been on an Indie/Rock magazine called"NME”. From researching about this distribution company I now know that this company focuses on three main group’s upmarket women, mass market woman and men. My magazine has a target audience between mass market woman and men.
Indie/Rock genre hasn't got a massive audience because this type of music has two different genres; therefore pairing up with this distribution company would be a good idea. IPC media is a worldwide company therefore they have magazines in big brand supermarkets; if IPC market would distribute my magazine I feel that I would have a wider audience.

Here are some of the links that I collected my research from:-
 http://www.ipcadvertising.com/
http://www.ipcmedia.com/brands/
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
These links show you the variety of magazine that is with this company, how to advertise specific magazines is certain way and general information about IPC media.

Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Below I have created a Prezi document, here I have highlighted specific features that I have used and explained how these features represent a particular social group.

Here is the link to the Prezi document:-http://prezi.com/q37xyxyugaap/copy-of-evaluation-question-2/