Tuesday 8 May 2012
EVALUATION 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Double Page Spread:
My double page spread follows the classic convention of having one main image covering both the pages, and having the fonts on top of it. I really like this affect, that is why i used it. I also followed the convention of having a impacting quote from the band as the biggest font to make you interested in reading it.
My magazine cover challenges conventions in many ways. However also follows a lot of trends that the normal indie rock magazine follows.
My cover:
My cover has the classic sale lines about concerts and and upcoming trends that the generic reader will want to read about. However, i challenged conventions by having a lot of fonts and shapes that over lap and cover each other. For example the over sided quotation marks. Although this is odd, it doesn't look out of place.
Contents:
I continued the over lapping themes on my contents page. My contents page is based on one from NME because this is the same genre as my magazine, however I developed the conventions by over sizing different aspects and changing the focus of the over all page.
Double Page Spread:
My double page spread follows the classic convention of having one main image covering both the pages, and having the fonts on top of it. I really like this affect, that is why i used it. I also followed the convention of having a impacting quote from the band as the biggest font to make you interested in reading it.
To conclude, I have challenged, followed and developed a range of conventions to not only make my magazine original and innovative. Although i do believe in following conventions so that is easily recognisable by my consumer.
EVALUATION 4
who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience I have aimed my product at are the older teenager age to mid 20's. This is because my genre of music that I have based my music magazine on has its own social group: indie.
Although this meant I almost had guidelines to follow to make sure I kept the conventions of this genre. It also meant I had be not only creative, but careful when straying from conventions to create new trends to not stray too far from the obvious themes.
I wouldn't say my magazine is aimed at particular genre. It has different aspects that will appeal to both men, and women. For example, subjects of the front cover photo, the three men, appeal to women because they are good looking. However they also appeal to men as they are dressed fashionably and so can aspire to be like them. Also, the colour theme doesn't limit me to one particular gender either as they are all pretty multi-sex colours. The sale lines will also appeal to men and women because they aren't all just about "hot guys" or "sports news". Another reason I have made sure that my magazine doesn't just target one single gender is because the social group of indie people tend to not stick to just sex friendship groups but often have it half female, half male.
In terms of class and whom my magazine would be aimed at, it would be mainly the middle class. This is because the people in my social group are mainly in this class. Also, I don't think a lot of the things included in my magazine would be relevant or interesting for people from different classes.
The lifestyle of the audience my magazine would have would be quite laid back. Earlier in my research I did a questionnaire to see what sort of things people expected from an indie rock magazine, and one of the questions was:
The audience I have aimed my product at are the older teenager age to mid 20's. This is because my genre of music that I have based my music magazine on has its own social group: indie.
Although this meant I almost had guidelines to follow to make sure I kept the conventions of this genre. It also meant I had be not only creative, but careful when straying from conventions to create new trends to not stray too far from the obvious themes.
In terms of class and whom my magazine would be aimed at, it would be mainly the middle class. This is because the people in my social group are mainly in this class. Also, I don't think a lot of the things included in my magazine would be relevant or interesting for people from different classes.
The lifestyle of the audience my magazine would have would be quite laid back. Earlier in my research I did a questionnaire to see what sort of things people expected from an indie rock magazine, and one of the questions was:
I tried to make sure that I maintained these stereotypes throughout the magazine, some more subtly than others, but still maintaining the identity of the genre.
Finally, I believe the type of audience my magazine will attract will be uni-sex, young adult people. Typically coming from the indie social group and trying to be individual in everything they do.
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