The document summarizes the design choices made for a magazine cover focused on rock music and gothic rock. Barbed wire and thick black lettering were used to give the cover a gritty look. A dark graveyard scene with a masked man conveyed that it was a rock magazine. The word "RED" was used in a dark crimson color to signify blood. The intended audience is young adults and mainly males interested in live rock music events. Feedback found that including a free gift would attract more buyers.

1. I used traditional key features for my front cover, like skylines and mastheads. And used fonts that were relevant and commonly associated with the type of music I was working with (rock music and gothic rock). E.g. I used barbed wire around thick black lettering, which gave it a gritty and grunge look. Evaluation In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. I used on my front cover the type of language which is associated with rock music lovers. And the font and pictures were also related to the type of music my magazine is about. The Picture I used was dark and in a graveyard – death links with gothic rock. And a masked man standing in a dominate stance conveys to the audience it’s a rock magazine. The masthead; the word ‘RED’ was in a dark crimson red colour to signify blood. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? My magazine will be a mainstream magazine and will be sold in most establishments E.G. Tesco’s, HMV, and most local news agents. Because a magazine solely dedicated to live rock music events has a huge fan base and my magazine is the only one that covers that.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product My audience are everyone who loves rock music and is interested in live gigs. My magazine tells people where good gigs are happening, gives the people times and dates of the events. There are lots of interviews and reviews to broaden the audience catalogue of great artists. But my biggest audience will be young adults and mainly male.

5. How did you attract/address your audience? (include evidence of audience feedback) I found out from my feedback (survey) that a lot of people would buy my magazine if it had a good free giveaway. So mine comes with a free gift every issue. I would make it clear exactly what my magazine was about, with big bold letters for my Main cover line ‘THE GREATEST GIG EVER.’ I also placed my main selling points on the left third so that the buyer can see it, and be attracted to my magazine. The graph shows that over half of the people who did my survey would more likely buy my magazine if it had a free gift

6. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you fell you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? I have learnt how to use Photoshop effectively and professionally; I learnt how to use layers in Photoshop along with discovering different paint brushes tools to give me effects that make my magazine look professional and stylish. I also got a good understand of how to layout my magazine using Photoshop to insure that it looks great. The one criticism that I received was that some of the fonts did not work with the genre of my magazine.

7. I have also learnt how to construct a magazine cover, contents page and double page spread professionally, through using layers in Photoshop. I have learnt all the different names for the key features of the front cover and how to use them effectively. I found out all the important selling points in a magazine, and what attracts most people towards a magazine. I learnt how to do this, so that my magazine can look professional and understand What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?