The document discusses the construction of a music magazine. It describes the development of various design elements including the cover, contents page, articles, and house style. Techniques like fonts, colors, images, and language are discussed in the context of representing the target audience and codes of conventions. The document also reflects on what was learned from the process, including skills with Photoshop, photography, lighting, and how the magazine addresses and attracts its intended readership.

1. Evaluation Front cover and contents page.

2. Front cover In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines? My main image is the most dominant on the page and clearly shows authority over everything else on the magazine. I did this to reveal the superiority and control which is a great achievement and motivational point for many artists Cover lines are very important part of any magazine front cover. They help the reader find out what in the particular issue of the magazine, and in turn broadening the audience range. Freebies are an essential part of any magazine. It lets the reader know they are getting more than just a magazine. It could be the difference between an okay magazine and a great magazine. This magazine uses the usual standard bar code to essentially improve the realism factor of my magazine.

5. Double page spread The main featured article is the main selling point for many magazine companies. It is one of the things readers are looking for. I developed this by thinking of an idea that was related to my genre. I used interesting vocabulary and realistic questions to try to keep it entertaining throughout.

6. House Style In my research I started to notice a pattern of recognition with my mag. This turned out to be my house style. It immediately tells the audience what their reading. With this recognition they know what they’re reading is reliable which in turn increases sales and flow. These green arrows show something the audience is getting extra to the magazine. It shows a pattern in my mag that points out where to look to see certain things inside The blue lines show a font and colouring similarity. I tried to keep a flow of colour and font in these pages. Red is clearly the dominant colour but I wanted white to play a part in separating important features. As this is a code of convention my mag will be much better.

9. All of this is crucial for striving to relate to your social group. There is however one important factor that many people overlook. This is being able to relate, in words to the lives of these teenagers and adults. Being able to do this will open up opportunities for direction and make the readers consider a connection with these magazines. This will further help get across information and the messages I am trying to pass on. The language is the solution for a target audience. The language I use is the language they use to showing similarities is a fine way to connect and show a mode of address in the audience.

10. taken as a whole I feel my magazine uses many of the codes of conventions which I have illustrated. My magazine shows my target audience which is a niche market using:, colour, fonts, quotes and other codes of conventions to signify the integrity and decency of the artist.

12. IPC distribute NME, a well known music magazine. They also have allot of diversity in their institution. Because of this they seem likely to consider a magazine which is connected to a niche market and shows originality. A worthy investment.

13. They have much fame in the world they are a huge company who are always expanding in size. I feel this is a good point to start an attempt to sell my magazine. The endorsement and advertising deals would swiftly gain publicity.

14. IPC uses their own products to endorse other produces. As they are so diverse, their many products all over the internet, television and other various outlets. There would be many ways to advertise a magazine.

16. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this music magazine?(Lighting, photography, Photoshop, indesign and the internet) The very thing I learned it that Photoshop takes a while to get to grips with. I had a difficult time getting to grips with it. Of course I got better with time but just the time it took and the care to attention I had to pay shows how advanced the technology of our time is. (see next slide) The photography is obviously a big part of any magazine. There are many things to take into account like positioning of the camera. I used a tripod to give an absolutely still, high quality to my photo shoot. For the main image I had to work out the right distance to put the camera. This took a couple of tries but I persevered. The second image was relatively easy. Just a close up of me behind a green screen, although I wanted the small amount of light to highlight the tip of my hair for effect.. I was trying to set a kind of serious mood, I did this because I wanted to keep the audience interested . The double page spread image uses a red filter instead of effects to add a different style. The internet was a big factor for me. Social websites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have shown me my audience in a nut shell. I researched some relevant videos on Youtube for my audience research. This was to take a look at the kind of scene behind the music. Partying, fun and mischief was some of the main takeaway from this. The internet was also a good way to get in touch with individual members of my audience and ask them relevant questions.

17. Photoshop technologies A great part of Photoshop is the ‘duplicate layer’ option. It is a unique feature that really comes in handy. In many situations like testing or changing a layer you always have a backup which helps allot. The next feature is ‘blending options’ which is one of the most versatile on Photoshop. It helps when you need a new look to a layer. The main features of thi9s are; outer glow, stroke and colour overlay. Each of which can be used in it’s own unique way. The outer glow was used on my magazine when I needed to make something stand out or just meet the terms of my house style. Stroke works with the outer glow giving it extra range and depth. Colour overlay worked well with my text and certain titles. The last one is the ‘lasso’. It is a very specific cutting tool that can cut with great accuracy and precision. As the magic eraser tool is not always as accurate as I like the lasso is very helpful.

20. Looking back at your preliminary task (the College magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? One of the most important things I have learned throughout this magazine work is positioning. The flat plans helped allot. I noticed that preliminary task the amount of content on the page was not enough to fill the page. I needed more information and other media. I made sure on the music magazine I knew enough about my audience to write an article and had enough images to represent the rest of the magazine. I do how ever regret using the preliminary colour red. I feel it gets a little vague. If I were to do this again I would use a wider range of colours. Another big progression for me was learning how to use language. From the initial collage magazine there is a clear step from okay to a solid article. The language used in the music magazine article was thought out. I tried to make it sound realistic. I didn’t want my audience to feel like there reading a scripted article. Also the questions I asked I thought must be related to what the audience would want to see. It’s clear the difference from when I started the magazine to the finished product. I have learned allot in the process of making this magazine. I feel its worth noting that I spent more time on the front cover than the contents. Also I was unclear on the copy write claims for band album logo’s and album covers. This leads to a large amount of time spent on an article that was illegal to use. Although I did use some inspiration from the original article to the finished piece.

21. Photoshop technologies A great tool in Photoshop is ‘opacity’. This allows objects to be faded. It controls how dense the object is. It helps in specific objects. I used it for a couple of reasons. The first being the velocity sign. I first used the colour overlay tool to cover the font red. I didn’t like the density of red. To I changed the opacity to 75 rather than 100. Something useful have learned is the Photoshop advances. Text flow was a very useful statistic on my double page spread. It allowed my text to flow around my image. This was the same technique I used for a ‘pull quote’. Just making the text flow around an object is a skill in itself.