Question 1 Evaluation.

1. Q1: in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
My media product uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of other
media products,
Some things that are part of magazines, music ones in particular are:
•Headers,
•Plugs,
•masthead
•Barcodes,
•Pull Quotes,
•Camera Work,
•Colour Scheme,
•Fonts,
How my Final product shows some of these elements against actual forms of media:

2. Colours
• Within my magazine i used to colours blue, black,
purple and white but with side colours green and
yellow for plugs and images
• I wanted the blue and purple to be light and dark in
order to contrast the colours to show rebellion and
clashing of society against different views, same
with white and black, although with white and black
i could add it to the colours to make them seem
more depressing and dark or lighter and cheerful.
• The yellow and green added a different scheme to
the magazine, it added some reality with the green
screen effect making the artist seem real and not
distant from fans, he was just at a plain old green
screen, the yellow also added a highlight colour to
stand out and grab the readers attention on the
shop shelves.

3. Fonts
• Within my magazine i used 2 fonts,
‘assassins dub’ and ‘decibel’ these
two fonts were great for my
magazine, the masthead (assassins
dub) added a sense of anarchy and
destruction in the magazine.
• The article title and side headers
(decibel) were chosen because the
font shows a sense of distortion,
fitting in with the amped name but
also adding a feeling of widening of
society, how rock music is spreading
into a wider genre and how its slowly
being out casted from society with
rock being the wider waves of
distortion.

4. My Cover vs. Kerrang!

5. The front cover of my issue is very independent in itself;
it follows some themes of kerrang! But it follows its own
style rather than emulating solely kerrang! My front
cover has a very ‘dark’ demeanour about it, I wanted to
present the social stereotype of rock in the image but the
text however states how it is stereotype, I wanted to
prove to the public how the stereotype creates a bad
stigma around rock music and that it is ‘satanic’ not only
in my magazine did I want this but I also wanted to send
the message across that rock isn’t about being evil and
screaming and thrashing guitars and drums, I wanted to
show that if you read the book by its cover (or the image)
you will not understand how rock isn’t the stereotype, it
is more about emotions and wanting to play music on
real instruments without the help of auto tune.

6. My Contents vs. Kerrang!

7. As my final product is displayed against kerrang!
I have tried to emulate the general theme of
Kerrang! By using highly noticeable colour
schemes and fonts I tried to create a theme
similar to that of kerrang, I like the look of
kerrang and how its laid out, the contents in
particular with the picture/competition and
subscription ad in the corner, I tried to use the
same style within mine but with my own style
incorporated, I added elements such as a QR
code and a competition code for the IT
element and for the customers to discover
new elements of media, associated with
AMPED.

8. Band/Name
Quote
Intro/Paragraph

9. • I also tried to follow the general style of
kerrang! Magazine too as my image was
centred on one side of the magazine but it left
lots of room on the other side for the article, i
included a quote from the article that backs
up what it is about and i fit in a small
paragraph with who the article is about etc.
Just like in kerrang!

10. Portrait photographs (front cover & Contents)
Camera work:
The images I used for my front cover, Needed to be portrait photographs, this is
because the front cover has to be portrait, the A4 style, my photographs that were to
be considered were:

11. I chose these photos as consideration, I believe they are
all very professional shots plus they are all portrait,
some of the photos are very photo shoot style but
some are very naturalistic, in a photo shoot setting, I
liked these ones in particular as they have a very ‘real’
feel about them, this is very similar to other forms of
media such as kerrang! All the photos seem very natural
and not purposely posed. For my front cover I used the
third photo, I believe it is the ‘darkest’ photo and I
wanted to portray a stereotypical view of rock so that
the interview would contradict this view, showing the
artists true colours and how he is not ‘emo’

12. Barcode
As earlier stated i have tried to follow general conventions in my media magazine
such as barcodes, i have used a barcode for my product with the text ‘amped
magazine. £2.00 8th Feb 2013’ i believed these were necessary for my magazine but
also for the customer to know the price and what they are buying within the
barcode area.

13. Header
• As i developed my header, in my head i wanted
the header to follow the general house style but
for it to also follow the scheme of clashing
colours, just like kerrang! I decided to use my
house style colours as it fit best with the
magazines cover and the general theme,
although my house colours were chosen to be
clashing so i had no problem finding the colours,
but it was just a problem of blue on purple or
purple on blue, in the end i chose the blue on
purple as this is the best colour choice as the blue
stands out bright on the dark purple.

14. Masthead
• With my mast head i aimed for a similar selection to kerrang!’s as
my font was very distorted and broken, showing a sense of
breakdown and rebel against society, but also showing how the
stereotype of rock being ‘cool’ in the past to now a shunned area of
music, therefore breaking down the music and all it stands for by
society. Unlike kerrang! However i have placed the model under the
masthead, i did this as my image was a very zoomed photo, i didn't
want the model to obscure the masthead, unlike kerrang again i
added some effects to my masthead, giving it an emboss and
creating the signature backwards P, i did this to give the magazine a
professional look and to add depth to the lettering. My backwards P
was to give the magazine some identity, i could then use this P in
smaller areas, such as in the corner of a poster to let the customers
know it is an AMPED poster, just by the ID mark.

15. contents
• I have again emulated the style of kerrang! I have used the
same font as my masthead to keep the theme of rebel and
contrast from society, i decided to use a banner for the
contents title, it doesn’t touch the top of the page but
stretches from side to side with the text spread across, i
used the backwards P again to drill in the independency to
the audience, my issue date and number are displayed
clearly for organisation in the amp box which customers get
free to store issues of AMPED!

16. Free claim/subscription
With my Free claim/subscription offer i have
emulated the general style of kerrang with the
ad being placed under the competition on the
contents page, although I have used my own
theme for it with the green box with code and
the white on purple, I have kept the style the
same as my house style with the colour
scheme and text being the distorted, broken
style yet unlike kerrang I have not added any
images or unnecessary features (banner)

17. Pull quotes
Just like kerrang i added a pull quote on the dps, this is similar to kerrangs
although, i do believe that my pull quote in this instance looks more
professional than kerrangs, i had a hard copy of this issue of kerrang
and the cut of the text that moves the top part right slightly onto
Mark Hoppus’ leg is a fault within this issue, when zoomed out it is
harder to make out this glitch in the text although checks were not
made with this issue and the end result make it unprofessional, my
pull quote follows the house style of the product, although i have
outlined the text in black to make it stand out against the gradient of
the image, it also adds a feel of rock and roll, a similar style to eye
liner on such rock artists as Pete Wentz, it adds a rebellious rock feel
to the text.

18. Plugs
• I have emulated a simlar plug to that of kerrang with the white
border and it being a circle, although different to kerrang i have
not highlighted the word ‘win’ i have highlighted ‘leeds fest’ i
wanted to attract the audience to a well known brand rather
than winning and therefore people will enter for the prize not
the competition, or as i hope, i also created the yellow leeds fest
text as it is the similar colour to the actual leeds fest brand logo
and so people will see the yellow and instantly realise its leeds
fest they know, it adds to the house style of the leeds fest brand,
• I also created the plug to slightly overlap the mast head, i did
this as i wanted the plug to look like a sticker over a printed
circle, it would add depths and a feel of reality to the magazines
face.