2. Keeping within my colour scheme, not all the pages are going to be black red and white just the ones I created are so it shows that I have thought about what my audience want

3. I have added lots of metal guy bands so that if they aren’t into Avenged The Living, then they will certainly be into children of bodom, trivium, opeth and many other bands like that. Also by having Amie on the front cover shows that I’m not afraid of making a change as everyone hates Amie and by having her on the front will make people want to read it to see what rubbish she’s going on about, when it’s not! -55880875030The overall construction of this is that I think I have made a right choice in using the models I chose, as josh is a metal head and he automatically was wearing the right clothes were as Molly I had to tell her what to wear. But it all turned out ok in the end. All the colours I have used throughout my magazine reflect upon the metal genre as you wouldn’t find a white red and black article in for instance <br />-123190130810You wouldn’t expect in TOTP ( top of the pops) for there to be a very dark double page spread as here they are light, tabloid like, colourful, girly and child like. Where as compared to mine, there a lot more grown up and metal like. When I took the images of josh I wanted it to feel like he was rehearsing for a new song, or just randomly playing as one of metal lovers hobbies is playing an instrument so by having josh playing the guitar, the fans could connect to him by that? But I do think that I could of taken pictures of Avenged The Living as a band not just as Amie and I could of had them playing at a gig to give it a more rocky feel to it. I also could of got Amie pictured with a microphone so it shows she is the lead singer and she’s not just dosing in the band. But the props that I have used I am happy with as I do think that Amie’s coat is the best prop that I have used as man women who wear leopard print are very adventurous wild and crazy which is everything that Amie is. All of the Language that I have used was good enough for the magazine but I could have used a lot more Puff and Buzz words to draw the reader in. But other than that I am happy with my content in my magazine. <br />Layout of front cover, contents page, and double page spread <br />-13017533655<br />27863801386840creating this was really hard as my 1st edit was good, but it had far too much text and everything was all over the place. The image next to the text is my 1st attempt at this. I do think that this was good but now looking back at it, I do think that I had far too much on here. Like the guy from over kill looks out of place almost like he’s floating all over the place and 100 best gigs you can barely read it. I have to say I am glad that I had changed this in my opinion. Also the Amie –Marie, it just doesn’t stand out as much as it should. I am glad I have changed it to my new one as it’s a lot better to be honest. <br />-8274054614545-480695577215As I haven’t really changed much, well I have but not much. As I have got rid of overkill and have moved him to the contents page. Which looks a lot better now. Also I have put a red circle underneath 100 greatest gigs so that this is drawing the reader in as it’s bright, colourful and stands out against the black and white image. I got the idea for this from Kerrang! As they use a lot of this kind of stuff it’s almost like a buzz word but in a form of a shape. Too me it makes the text stand out a lot more than if it had been just placed on top of the image. It also fits in with my colour scheme of black red and white; following conventions is what I have done here with the circle which in turn makes it looks more realistic and more believable for the readers and if you had a magazine with green and yellow colour scheme and you put pink with it, then this is going against conventions and will look silly in my opinion. The main cover line I have totally changed from my 1st attempt and looks a lot better as you can see and read it and stands out a lot more ad AMIE-MARIE and Avenged the living stand out more than anything else on this page which is what I was aiming to-do. As this is what I want the reader to notice and pick upon, as Amie is hated by a lot of people and if they see this they will be like I don’t care. But when they read on they will see joins forces with avenged the living they will be like “What.......” and will want to know why such a respected band has taken the so called low life on. And this way my sales will go up! My purpose of this approach is to give Amie another chance at her life and not to give up. But for my design I chose to have the main cover line in the middle, as when you look at anything you look from the left, diagonally downwards . so having it in the middle will make people stop for a second and read the information. And feel like really has she changed or is this another made up story? <br />My contents page was the hardest one to create, as this is the page that everyone turns too, to find out information in the magazine. I think I created 6 different versions with each one I was getting better and better with each one. Here I have followed conventions as I have a note from the editor which is basically selling the magazine and I think it’s quite a nice note as it’s about the latest gigs, and the free tracks. I have a contents heading, images, and features of the magazine. I think that the features, interviews, gigs & regulars ( I know are very short, but I feel this works best) I feel that even though that I’m not giving away a lot the information that I have displayed shows that I am keeping everything hidden till they look through my magazine, which I think is a good thing as then this way I’m not giving everything away in the 1st page. I do like the way that I have more images than text as I tend to look at the images and if they’re -292100327660interesting, then I will read the text. The purpose of this approach is to entice my reader to read on further in Metal Entity which is a good thing as if they liked the Bobby interview then they may just flick to that and won’t bother reading the rest, but at least then someone has read my magazine and will pass the word on. I have decided to follow Kerrang!’s approach for magazine. As I know that they are aiming there’s at 12-18 which is the teenage market, but I like the layout of their magazine and it’s really inspired me to create my magazine. I got the idea to have Amie in the top half by this issue of Kerrang! As its plain simple and making you want o read on to find out why Oli Sykes is on the contents page. <br />25355553986530-26225504866005-270827528530553079115475615-2501900751205For my double page spread I created a cover page, and three other pages. I felt the need to do this as I love it when magazines have a cover page for their double page spread as it breaks it down and welcomes you to the interview? I got the idea for the cover page from Oli Sykes’s interview with Kerrang! As they inspired me for the whole of Amie. As I didn’t have a clue on what to write about and I was looking on my wall when I saw this and thought right I’m gunna do something like that. And I did. I love the quote that’s beside Amie as I feel that this is basically summing the whole interview up and people can see that she’s sorry and knows that it’s going to be hard to make up for what she’s done in the past. I do think that I am challenging conventions as I have looked through other magazines and hardly any of them use this style of double page spreads. I do think that this is a good thing as I believe that I am creating something different to everyone else. My purpose of this approach is to show that Metal Entity isn’t afraid of change and will try to do things differently to other magazines in the magazine industry. The other part of my double page spread is different to this one as its red, white and grey which is showing I’m using a variety of colour here and I’m also following my colour scheme throughout my magazine. All the pull quotes, and images is really drawing the reader. I got the idea for this From Kerrang!’s double page spread interview with My Chemical Romance. I know that I have used a similar quote here, but I feel that having “I’m being the best that I can be!” suggests that Amie is trying her best here to show the world that she’s changed and isn’t what she used to be which is great for everyone else. I feel that on the 1st side of the double page spread there is more images than text, but on the last page there’s more text than images which is a good combination as the cover page and 1st side of the double page spread is drawing the reader in and the last page is explaining everything in detail. I think all the pull quotes that I have used are great as they are really setting the scene of what Amie’s been through and how she is trying to cope with everything that’s happened to her. <br />Over all I feel that I have both Followed and not Followed Conventions. As if I follow the rules 100%, then Metal Entity will look like any other regular metal magazine, but in some other aspects following conventions is great as it’s guiding me on what I should and shouldn’t do when I’m creating a music magazine. I feel that I went out of my way whilst I created this to make it feel like a proper magazine as I was looking online I saw some other peoples work and you could tell that it was fake and I didn’t want to go down that road, so I did loads of research into magazines and realised that Kerrang! Has really inspired me a lot what with the contents page story idea and the double page spread. Personally I think that Kerrang! Are way under rated by fans and it should have some more recognition for all the efforts that they do. <br />2.how does your music magazine represent particular social groups? <br />My the social groups that I have represented in my magazine are emo, Goths, scene kids, metal heads and anyone else who fancies having a quick read. I’ve been every single one of these genres so I have an idea on what they like and don’t like. Basically my target audience are all so very similar but hugely different at the same time. I have partially targeted males, but more so females, what with Amie’s storyline being the main article in my double page spread. For the mise-en-scene I have focused on creating a fun, and young look about it. As my target audience is aged 14-24, and I do think that my images represent young people of the metal genre as the props used are clothing, guitars band tee’s and posters. This is what a typical metal head would look and act like. And the imagery is all showing a Metal style in them. This is because of how Molly and Josh are dressed in them and their clothing is different to other genres as if it was for billboard Amie would be made to wear something revealing and josh wouldn’t be wearing what he is wearing in my images so I think that I have perfectly targeted my audience. Amie really does represent metal kids of today, As she looks very rebellious, but is very fashionable in her coat. All the images that I have really show the metal genre for what it’s worth and like. As I have gig pictures which I took myself, its showing that I have thought about how bands come across and what they look like in real life. Many of my images come across as angry and happy, which I think is a great mix as when you’re at a gig the atmosphere is amazing and when the lead singer is angry the atmosphere is great. I wanted to create real life images not photo shopped images and I feel that I have created these. I feel that Metal hammer, rock sound and Kerrang! All use the same style when they come across to their fans and I feel that they have all really inspired me in creating my magazine and getting ideas. <br />-56769022479030467304051303. what kind of media institution might distribute your music magazine and why? <br />-9315452422525After research for my media exam I kind of know which institution that I want my magazine to be a part of which is future plc( print screen to show what other magazines that they do) I know that they already have Metal Hammer, but my magazine is totally different in the way I have displayed everything. The type of magazines that future plc have are from very niche markets so my magazine would fit in very well as they have other magazines based on guitars swell ( relating to josh’s interview ) As their target audience is for young males of around 14-26 this would be a great opportunity to introduce something new, that’s aimed at girls and boys and would most likely improve their status ( well hopefully) some of the other magazines that they distribute are metal hammer, classic rock, totally guitar, mountain biking Uk, simply knitting and many more magazines. As they already have lots of other music based magazines, they will have a lot of knowledge on what to do and have a lot of experience as well. One magazine institution that defiantly wouldn’t distribute my magazine is northan shell as they tend to distribute newspapers and magazines like star, OK, daily star, and daily express. Even if I went to them with my idea they would most likely laugh in my face as they go for the gossip route not metal route. And they wouldn’t have any experience in my genre. <br />4. who would be the audience for your music magazine? <br />For Metal Entity, the main buyer is going to be males and females of around 16ish who are into the metal genre either emo’s, Goths, scene kids, or metal heads. Of course they will have a huge interest in metal music which shows that my target audience is quite niche. As the pop market is huge compared to my target audience. From my research my main percentage of males would be 78% and females 22% I have come up with this statistic from looking at other magazines that are from the metal genre. The female’s may just buy it as they may feel that a lead singer is “hot” or free music. But more or less the reason for Amie being on the front cover is to entice more females into buying my magazine as being a girl, may metal or guitar magazines, are heavily dominated by males, so I want to change that and challenge conventions by being different to every other magazine out there. As Metal Entity is a British based magazine it will be sold in the UK but, I won’t know who will be buying it. As there are so many races and ethnicity in the Uk it’s hard to focus on say British and Americans ( as they are usual supposed target audience.) but I could say a few: Americans, English people, Asians are just a small few who could pick up Metal Entity and love it. <br />-3524251377315Whilst I was carrying out my audience research, I found out that none of the people in my class had anything to do with what I wanted. So I still used some of it. But thought that as metal magazines are such a niche genre no one else in the class will create one like mine. But I did feel that the music questions i.e. where they got it from did help me a lot as some illegally download, buy from iTunes or Hmv which was something for me to think about for my flat plan. Many of the people from my class were into the Indi scene ( which is what I hate the most) and felt let down in my questionnaire, as they chose NME as the magazine that they regularly read. And what websites that they regularly go on can help me in learn what good music websites are out there, social networking sites etc so I can carefully target my genre without wasting time. Like bebo was huge 2 years ago, look at it now it’s run down and no one uses it. Same with MySpace that’s slowly dying. But facebook and twitter seem to the two big ones at the moment so I could create a page on there for Metal Entity to publicise my magazine for free which is an even bigger bonus. After this I went onto a website called find your tribe, which I think is genius as it asked you loads of different questions and I have taken it loads of times and each time it comes up with a metal head, which is true! And it did help me a lot as then i realised this can help me in what i need to include in Metal Entity. Like with my adverts, flat plan, i know what would be good to have ie calsberg and what wouldnt be good malibu. <br />5237480-12065-720725609600-8870951851660My target audience is made up mainly males who are interested in the lastest metal music and gigs. If they are devoted to one or a few bands they will always go and see them live, buy the lastest cd, merchandice etc. So for me this is great as i can have compititions 4944110333819555568852293620Too see a band lie i.e. Avenged sevenfold back stage etc. This will appeal to a lot of people as they are huge band worldwide and are currently doing a world tour. Also they love to go out to the local park, get drunk, go shopping and buy some less trendy clothes. But it’s a different story for scene kids, it’s all about the hair & eye makeup. As they want to be noticed, they will wear bright colours, so shops like topshop, h&m, river island, Primark, tkmaxx, punkyfish. Other places like Camden market is a big hit as here you’re going to find all sorts of people from girly girls to gothic guys. Taking pictures here is vital and they want everyone to see their massive hair, bright clothes and how amazing they look with their different coloured hair, and hair extensions. Piercings are also a huge yes, eye brows, lip, check, neck, hip, belly button and anything else that can be pierced, remember they want to be noticed. Emo’s tend to be a quiet lot as they tend to be “depressed” when many aren’t ( I used to be one) they tend to be similar to Goths, but are different in every way. Long black straight hair with red highlights is the main option for the emo hair style. Wearing black tee’s with skinny jeans and converses is the usual look for them. They shop in every shop just to find something dark and depressing. I.e. Primark, Camden market, punky fish and other shops like this. Eye liner here is a huge yes making the eyes look dramatic is everything here. They tend to draw very depressing doodles usually associated with death. Goths are near enough the same but they come across as scary and weird looking, and go the wild and I don’t care look. Their usual thing to do is go out with mates, go to gigs and just do what they like to. All of my target audience, likes to go to the cinema especially if it s got blood and gore in it I would have to say at least once a month if not more for my target audience. If any of them has ant spare money left I can guarantee it will be spent on either gig tickets, a new piercing, new clothes, hair dye or something else. Being the 1st buy a new Cd or rare items is like the ultimate thing here as they want to be seen as being in trend with everyone else, but being one above the others this is something that they are passionate about which shows that they are caring people.<br />My target audience soci-economic group would have to e: people substituting on state benefits, the unemployed. This is the lowest one as many of them are still at school or just leaving uni, they will be unemployed mainly. Some may have a job and will be able to buy more for them, but others will have to scrounge off their parents for money. For me the psychographic profiling is really hard as I have so many different people buying my magazine, it’s hard to just choose one as they are all different. Mainly I think that my target audience are struggler’s ( an escapist who lives for today but is often views as a loser) this suggests that my target audience love to live in the moment and don’t bother to think about tomorrow, which is what many of today’s younger generation are like. Also I think that they are explores as they all desire discovery i.e. when they find a new band that they haven’t heard of before and they fall in love, finding a new shop online or finding an amazing YouTube converter. From this I have used it to strike a cord as being from some of these genres, I already knew what would be a massive hit and what wouldn’t be a massive hit. Which has given me a bigger advantage on everything. <br />88138017335502762250-836930-723265-836930<br />5. how did you attract/address your audience?<br />The mode of address that I have used in metal entity to attract my audience was kind of a chatty style yet still made sense to everyone. I used this as I wanted the reader to feel at ease when reading my magazine and wouldn’t have to feel like, this is no good for me. If I had used formal language, it may have put people off buying Metal Entity, but I didn’t I used words like you, we, you’re in for a treat. These types of words make the reader feel like you are personally talking to them and make them feel welcome and happier with reading my magazine. <br />My use of font here was to go towards the metal genre, as I have created a metal magazine I felt that the fonts should be metal like as well. I feel that they all look brilliant in my magazine and I have used fonts like Wide Latin, stencil which really resembles the metal genre as stencil looks like something for the army and wide Latin looks blocky and almost shouting at you. But to make it feel more feminine for the girls who read my magazine, for the quotes I used curly/ slanted fonts to make them feel more welcome to when reading metal entity. Also like my mast head although that it’s black it stands out against the white and black background due to the white shadow around it. I think that this was a good thing to do as I tried my mast head in red and even though it stood out more, I felt that I had too much red on my page and it may put some people off buying my magazine. <br />Metal Entity’s content really does attract my audience as its clear when you first look at it that it’s to do with metal. This is because of the colour scheme, free track and the bands listed and how Amie and Matt look in the images. The magazine also has some of the metal world’s biggest bands featured in my magazine. The readers will want to read about Amie’s story as not many people like her, and if she’s said that she has changed then maybe she has or they want to see what rubbish she has been saying in Metal Entity. I have also included in my magazine new bands, rivalry, 100 greatest bands, interviews, exclusives, behind the scenes, up and coming gigs, win tickets and things like this make up a music magazine and hopefully I have done it slightly different to other music magazines. My layout its self is very simple and like so many other magazines out there but I think it works great, as I don’t have all my pages crammed with images and text, I have used an even amount on pages ( Well on some there may be more text than images and visversa) I really like the fact that I haven’t put a lot of images or text on my front cover as this may of ruined it and made it look too over crowded. I feel that my target audience will like my main elements of Metal entity as I have tried my best to attract as many people as possible. And having Amie on the front may attract just about anyone who looks in the magazine section in shops. <br />Amie constantly features on every page that I have created for Metal Entity. This is so that she has a bigger effect on the reader, making them want to read her interview. She appears on my front cover, contents page, cover page, double page spread and my single page. I think that she will; appeal to males as she is seen as a supposed “fittie” ( meaning hot) Both Amie and Matt don’t really exist but I thought that it would be a good story line for me to-do. The photos on my contents page will mainly appeal to males as they are both male dominated bands, but the image s of Amie will hopefully bring in the female audience as well. Also the images of overkill and syslosis will appeal to gig goers as they may of been to that gig and feel wow, I was there I’m so buying this. <br />When I was completing my audience reaserch it had a huge impact on me as to begin with I wasn’t sure on what to-do but after that power point, I felt that I wanted to go down the metal genre as being one myself, I knew what to include and what would be great to have in my magazine. But as it’s a very niche market it may be hard to get off the ground, but I could sort this out with lots of advertising, free gifts, new stories before another band and things like this will entice my audience into buying Metal Entity. I have priced my magazine at £2.75 as I feel that this a fair enough price as it’s sold every 2 weeks, this is a great price for all the information that you get. Also from my research I learnt that having latest bands, images and freebies will attract my audience into buying it. I hope by having Amie on my front cover, it will attract the female audience as well as the male audience. <br />All of my audience feedback has helped me a lot, as well as my teacher Zoe ( I wouldn’t have completed it without her!) I have posted video clips and pictures of what people have said and they all seem happy with the final outcome of Metal Entity. I feel that I have perfectly targeted my audience as I have bands from the metal genre, free music, gigs, competitions, interviews, and things like this really work in a music magazine. The colour scheme that I have chosen I feel was perfect as this is a typical colour scheme, black red, grey and white. But imperfectly works all together which is a great thing. I as I wasn’t sure on what my colour scheme should be did a lot of research in front covers so I knew what would be good and what’s a bad idea to have not he front, what’s a good layout and what’s a bad layout. Also for my content page I did more research into this as I was getting annoyed with not getting it right and when I saw the Kerrangs! Contents page it really inspired me to do one like that. As for my double page spread I didn’t do as much research into this as I knew what was good and was bad but again Kerrang! Inspired I here with the cover page, and the double page spread. I feel that my feedback from everyone has been great as it’s all so positive about my work which made me feel more confident in it. <br />-5613404965706. what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constricting this product? <br />Internet explorer:- I have used the internet a lot for my magazine as I wouldn’t have got half if not any of my information for my front cover. I feel that this has helped me in getting ideas for everything. This has helped me contact everyone for my photo shoots, upload on to youtube,slideshare and eventually blogger. <br />0-198755Facebook:- I used this to contact my models for my shoots and I feel that this was the best way to contact them <br />-1796415293370<br />PowerPoint: I used this to put all my research planning and final work onto. I could have used Word but it wouldn’t have given the best effect. <br />Paint: I used this to crop down any images when I was at home as I didn’t have Photoshop, this came in handy quite a lot. <br />190504277Dafont: helped me to understand Metal like fonts. As I wasn’t sure what to use but after looking in the gothic section, it helped me loads.<br />Blogger this is where all of my work has been uploaded to without this then I wouldn’t have been able to complete any of my work. I feel that this is a very up-to-date website to use. <br />In design I used this to create my magazine and I feel that it has given me the best effects for my work as some other people have used publisher and it hasn’t worked as well as this program does. <br />Photoshop:- I used this to edit all of my images on to make them look a lot more professional and better quality after they had been edited. <br />Song alpha A 290: this is my own camera I feel that this has given me the best possible images that I could have achieved as the lighting and the final quality of them, is amazing and I am happy that I have used this.<br />Slide share: I have used this website to convert my power points and this document into something that can be uploaded onto blogger. <br />YouTube I used this to upload my feedback and it has worked really well. <br />Word: I used this program for only this document as I felt that it would help me with my spelling. <br />