2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Front Cover Similarities Barcode, Date and Price Bold and eye catching masthead Main Image obeying rule of thirds Footer Cover lines
3. Front Cover Differences Unlike Kerrang my magazine has no flashers, headers and just a few sell lines to create a more quality and less tabloid magazine which is what my audience wanted My image is black and white to make the magazine seem darker to reflect the heavy metal genre No Header so my masthead can be bigger, bold and more dynamic
5. Contents Differences I have used more pictures and given them an attractive and informal Polaroid effect Instead of a review box I have used an editors note to help show the heavy metal genre of my magazine I have used more pictures to fill up the page and to maximise my appeal to audiences
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10. Who would the audience be for your media product? I have decided to follow and challenge the conventions of a heavy metal audience. So I would want ideally a young independently minded audience aged around 15-25. My magazine would probably appeal to men more as heavy metal appeals mainly to men, but I would be quite happy to attract women to the genre. The same can be said for ethnicity as heavy metal mainly appeals to whites but it would be great to attract a more ethnically diverse audience. This is why I have used a woman and an ethnic male in my contents. I would like my magazine to appeal to all socio economic groups, however I believe my magazine may appeal more to the lower groups as heavy metal is not really music that many upper and middle classes enjoy.
11. How did you attract/address your audience? Dark but striking colour scheme to relate to heavy metal target audience Bold Masthead will catch peopleโs eyes especially heavy metal fans with the bold red text Reasonable Price so all the socio economic groups will be able to afford the magazine Well known heavy metal stars featured which should attract heavy metal target audience Eye catching black and white image against a dark and metallic background to attract target audience and generally catch peopleโs eye on the magazine shelves Eye catching cover line to grab someone's attention especially heavy metal fans with the bold red text with black drop shadow Rebellious sell line would appeal to heavy metal target audience as it represents what they stand for
12. What have you learnt from the technologies from the process of constructing this product? Using Photoshop to manipulate my images and design my front cover Using Indesign to design my article and contents Using Scribd to upload work onto my blog Using digital cameras to take and upload my images Using Blogger to upload my work
13. Using Photoshop As you can see I have used Photoshop to manipulate my images, for example in this I have resized the image and I made my image black and white to relate to the dark heavy metal genre, I also believe it makes my background look better making it seem more metallic.
14. Using Indesign Using Indesign I added a Polaroid effect to my pictures and added drop shadow to make the pictures look different and eye catching. To add a little more rebelliousness the pictures are tilted. For consistency I made a black, grey and white background for my contents, similar to my front cover
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16. Audience Feedback Magazine Strengths Colour Scheme Contrasting Colours Language Magazine Weaknesses Images Font Manipulation of Images All 5 people asked rate this magazine overall as good. Other options were Excellent, Very Good, Satisfactory and Poor. For the Front Cover which looks at impact, images and manipulation, use of sell lines and language, appropriateness for target audience and professionalism answers ranged from excellent through to ok. Most replies rated most of these features as good. For the contents which look at the similar things like the front cover. Most replies rate most of the features as good. For Articles which look at similar things to the cover and contents. Most replies rate most of the features as good.
