The document summarizes improvements made to a music magazine project from a preliminary version. The summary version includes clearer magazine conventions like scattered cover lines rather than boxed in. The contents page also improved by including more eye-catching information and page numbers. Colors were used better by not clashing with the background. Overall layout looked neater while including important magazine details.

1. Improvements from Preliminary task
Amateur
logo
Genre
related
font
Boxed cover lines
Barcode adds to
professional look
When comparing the two front covers it is obvious that clear
improvements have been made since the preliminary task. The music
magazine shows better conventions of a magazine as a whole, it has
various cover lines scattered rather that boxed in. The Shot
composition is a lot better for the music magazine and the image
looks more professional with the background Photoshop edited out.

2. Improvements from Preliminary task
The preliminary task contents page looks highly unprofessional in comparison to
the music magazine contents. All aspects of the magazine conventions are
poor on the preliminary task as it doesn’t include enough eye catching
information to attract the reader to the magazine. A contents should include
page numbers but also include additional information to make the reader read
on. The colours are used better on the music magazine as they don’t clash
against the background and are easy to read. The layout is better on the music
magazine as it looks neat yet include a lot of vital magazine information.

3. Audience and the way I have addressed the audience
To address the audience I thought about all the conventions of a music magazine and
how I was going to relate it that that gene. I looked at magazine layout, colour schemes,
font styles, imagery and mode of address.
I tired to look at various indie rock layouts from NME and Q magazine and develop my own
look from the research I carried out on them to make them look like the genre. I used a
basic but effective layout for the magazine and I felt it looked like an indie rock magazine.
The cover lines were laid out in a relevant format but weren't too spaced and wasn’t too
cramped either.
The colour schemes I used also addressed the audience due to the symbolism of the colour
that were used the red colour that suggests envy and aggro, which is what indie rock music
is all about. They also stood out on the foreground and didn’t clash with the background.
I feel that many of the different conventions addressed my audience and the feedback
and evaluation on the video I received was very helpful to determine my success on
meeting the target audience requirements

4. Mise-en-Scene
The costumes that I used within the images and camera shots portrayed the
indie genre very well. The chino trousers that were used are related to the
genre and the suit jacket also added the effect of making the image look
professional and relevant to the genre.
In the images I used props such as guitars and microphones. The electric guitar
and the style of guitar is related to the music which Is played in that genre and
a guitar is a symbolic object in music in general. Microphone props also gave
the images a sense of performance and loud music which is related to the
genre also.
Additional props that were used were iconic sunglasses which the audience
might copy and relate to that specific artist for example Tinie Tempah and his
iconic sunglasses look.