Final Screen Grabs of all of my designs

Below is a screen grab of my final design for my music magazine front cover:




Below is a screen grab of my final design for my music magazine contents page:

Below is a screen grab of my final design for my music magazine double page spread:




Below is the final screen grab of my preliminary front cover task:



Below is the final screen grab of my preliminary contents page task:

Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms or conventions of real media products?
















2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?










3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? After doing research I have decided that the right kind of institution that would distribute my music magazine would be Bauer.

http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/

"Bauer Media reaches over nineteen million UK adults across multiple media channels. We have more than eighty influential media brands spanning a wide range of interests, including heat, GRAZIA, Closer, MCN, FHM, Parker's, MATCH, Magic 105.4, Kiss 100, Kerrang!, 4Music and the Big City Network, our group of twenty local radio stations. Bauer also has the market leading music and entertainment titles, Q, Mojo and KERRANG! Q harnesses the music and lifestyle audience, Mojo continues its crusade for timeless music and KERRANG! rocks its audience every week. Market-leading movie magazine Empire continues to excite with its record breaking covers."




Due to Bauer distibuting Kerrang!, and with this also being a rock magazine I have decided to also go with this company as it may push ‘Kerrang!’ off the market slightly making room for my magazine of ‘RockOut’ which is new and contempary.


Below is an image of Kerrang! magazine which is distributed by Bauer Media:



4. Who would be the audience for your media product?



Josh Gilroy is 17 years old and his favourite genre of music is Rock. He plays the guitar and likes to listen to music in his spare time, he buys various monthly rock magazines, therefore would be the perfect audience for my magazine. Below are two YouTube clips of his band peforming, all of the people in these videos would fit into my target audience as they are all in the age range of teenagers up to young adults and are all rock fans both male and female.


Below are two youtube clips which show my target audience, as the audience watching this rock band would be ideal for my audience with them enjoying rock music. They are also all young adults which also fits into my initial target audience.










5. How did you attract/address your audience?






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






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

Notes on my Final Production

• Many changes were made to my final product, for example the main problem was my front cover image as it took a while to get the whole rock theme correct for my style and audience.

• I think that the layout works well with an organised layout as it makes it more grown up, however I could do with some sort of a rough edge to match my chosen genre.

• The main image took a while to get right and in the end I realised all I needed was more confidence when being in control of taking photographs in order to get the right image I wanted.

• I enjoyed producing my double page spread the most as it was the straightest forward due to me planning it more carefully and just getting on with it in general.

• If I could go back then I would of took a few more pictures of the band “Hippys on the Hill” while I had the chance as I feel more thought could of gone into taking the picture with a more dominant background.

• I think that with more planning and thought my magazine could look more professional and be more of a competitor to other rock magazines which have already been published.

Questionnaire for evaluation of Rock Music Magazine

Do you think the overall appearance works well for my genre of a “Rock” magazine?

Would you buy my magazine, as a monthly issue, if you saw it in your local newsagents?

Do you think the colour scheme works well throughout the magazine?

Would you say that the magazine is priced to high or low for the standards of it? Or do you think it is priced at a reasonable price?

Would you be interested in reading my double page spread article just from seeing the title of it?

As a whole does my magazine grab your attention?

Could you see yourself buying this magazine on a monthly basis?

Do you think the fonts and styles used are appropriate for the magazine?

Do you think that the images used work well with the magazine’s background colours and other images?

Does the structured layout work well, or do you think a rougher messier layout would work better?

What would you change about this magazine in order to make it fit into the genre of rock more?

Front Cover Screen Grab 4

Screen Grab of Front Cover 3

Screen Grab of Front Cover 2