The document evaluates a music magazine created by the student. It summarizes how the student magazine both uses conventions of real music magazines, such as featuring an artist on the cover and using consistent fonts, and challenges conventions by using an old sepia color scheme. It also discusses how the magazine represents its target audience of teenagers and young adults interested in indie-country music. The student learned skills in Photoshop, including photo editing, and Pages for magazine layout. Overall, the student gained experience in effectively designing a magazine to match a musical genre.

1. EVALUATION OF
MUSIC MAGAZINE

2. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE USE,
DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS & CONVENTIONS
OF REAL MUSIC MAGAZINES?
• Real music magazines normally have one main artist or band on the front cover
which are also normally the fauture in the double page spread. I too have used this
idea for my own magazine by having a band on the front and using them for my
article in the double page spread.
• Also the use of same fonts throughout are in real magazines – this allows uniformity
and allows it to flow. In my magazine I have used the same 2 fonts throughout to
make it look uniform and that it makes the magazine look more professional.
• I have challenged the convention of a real magazine by using an old-looking sepia
colour for the whole magazine – this is not the norm for music magazines because
they normally have bold, bright colours. I decided to go against this because it ties
more into my genre of indie-country. This genre is quite unusual and therefore I
didn’t want it to conform to the normal bright, bold colours.

3. HOW DOES YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?
• My magazine represents the teenagers/young adults because the models are young
adults and therefore the audience might relate to them – it could show them how even
at a young age you can follow your dreams and succeed.
• The use of teenage models shows that no matter your age you can do what you want
and if you want to go into music then you can as long as you work for it.
• It might not be very representative of many people who like country music as quite a
lot of people liking country music are slightly older and middle aged but it does
represent those liking indie as they tend to be the younger adults.

4. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT
DISTRIBUTE YOUR MAGAZINE AND WHY?
• I think it would be a smaller company that would most likely distribute my magazine,
such as BBC Worldwide. This is because the genre indie-country is not a very popular
genre and therefore not as many people would buy the magazine compared to a genre
like pop. This means that the larger companies might not be interested because it does
not bring in as much interest and they prefer having a large number of people
interested in order to gain the greatest profit.

5. WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE TO
YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE?
• The audience for my magazine would be teenagers/young adults who have a particular
interest in indie-country style music
• I tried to aim it at both males and females, but I guess it would be more suited for
females.
• Indie-country is a genre that is more suited to females because females are more
interested in the country side of this

6. HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS
YOUR AUDIENCE?
• I used 2 female models which could attract both females and males
• The female audience might see them as role models and therefore look up to them
• The males might prefer to be looking at the females as well as being into the genre of
music
• The double page spread has humorous photos on which show character – this makes
it much less serious and therefore more suited to teenagers and young adults
• The guitar mixed with the sepia effect makes it look quite country and therefore draws
it into those people who are into the indie/country genre of music.

7. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?
Photoshop
• I learnt how to successfully edita photo by changing the contrast levels, brightness and
saturation – I also learnt how to overlay a colour over the top of the original image – this all
lead to there being a sepia effect
• I also learnt how to cut out an image for it just to be the model themselves and how to
manipulate the image by tools such as liquefy
Pages
• I learnt how to use this application in order to make the magazine
• I learnt how to change the fonts, insert images, move the images around, change the
background colours and font colours. This all allowed me to make it look how I needed
and wanted it to
• I also learnt that you could download fonts from ‘DaFont’ in order to find a font that
matched your genre and downloaded it into the applications I use.

8. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT
DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE
PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?
• I have learnt how to edit a photograph using ‘Photoshop’ in a successful way that links
it to my genre and how to make a magazine front cover, double page spread and
contents page through the use of the application ‘Pages’.
• My preliminary task was mostly done using a little bit of ‘Photoshop’ and then
conducted on ‘Word’. There was little editing on the photo itself and the fonts did not go
together with the type of magazine it was.
• There was a lot more thought about how and where the photo was to be taken in the
final product and learnt how certain areas were much better than others – areas with a
simpler background are much more effective compared to those with busy
backgrounds.