This document evaluates a music magazine called Roar Music in comparison to similar magazines like Kerrang and Rock Sound. It analyzes aspects like layout, design, target audience, and distribution. The target audience of Roar Music is described as alternative people who dress differently and listen to less mainstream music. Bauer Media is proposed as the best company to distribute Roar Music since they already publish the competing Kerrang magazine. The document also reflects on what was learned from the process of constructing the magazine prototype about technologies, design, and making the content more appealing to readers.

1. Music Magazine EvaluationJay Kee-Pinner

2. In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? In comparison to Kerrang magazine.Roar music looks much more organized and less cluttered.There are thing that one magazine has but the other doesn’t have. Magazine Name Main Featured Band Name Image Of Main Feature Band Magazine Slogan Clearly On Page Article Magazine Not Main Information On Main Feature Band Free Posters (clearly shown on front cover) Clearly Stated Price Other Bands Featured

3. Unlike the other two magazines, the only images in my contents page are of the main feature. Like Kerrang! my magazine has lots of images on the the contents but unlike Kerrang! The images are only of the main feature band like Rocksound

4. The most noticeable words on both, is the name of the band. Both predominantly are an image of the main feature. Both have a large noticeable quote in the same text as the features name. There is only one image on the Rock Sound double page spread, unlike Roar Music which has images of the band and their merchandise (CD’s) The text for Rock Sound is all basic in color. Whereas Roar Music magazine mixes up the colors of text it used. Rocksound has a small image which is understood by readers of the magazine.

5. How does your media product represent particular social groups? ROAR MUSIC, What social groups does it represent? Alternative People-This magazine represents the people who are looked at strangely while walking down the road because they dress differently and listen to different music. Music that isn’t in the charts or isn’t know by every person in the country.

6. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Bauer Media would be the best idea for the producer of this magazine, simply because the company already publishes three magazines being Q, Mojo, and only one rock based magazine, Kerrang! The only real competition for ROAR MUSIC! would be Kerrang! Magazine, and Rock Sound Magazine. Bauer already publishes Kerrang! Most alternative people read either Kerrang! or Rock Sound. Due to ROAR MUSIC! Bauer could also take some of the Rock Sound readers for their profit too.

7. Who would be the audience for your media product? People who dress according to their music taste, PUNKSPunk Music EMOSEmo Music SCENE KIDSElectro MusicNentendo-Core Blue Jeans, Colourful hair, Mohicans, braces, leather jackets. Colourful clothing, and colourful hair. Mainly black clothing. HARDCORE KIDS Mainly wear only plain black vests and tracksuit bottoms. Or metal band t-shirts.

8. I saw images of people who dress like me. How did you attract/address your audience? I saw the names of bands I love on the front cover. It was only £1.99 and was in my genre of music interest. The font on the cover looked more interesting than all the other magazines. I wanted to try a new magazine and this one didn’t look too weird.

9. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? All sorts of technologies have been used to create magazines, from their front covers to even little things like where the page number is formatted to fit into the corner perfectly. Not only in making the magazines are technologies used but even in editing pictures to fit, or seem more appealing.

10. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

11. Compared to the original magazine, made for a student magazine, the music based one is far more presentable. With pictures which seem more appealing, being based on something most people find really amusing, and the fonts used to attract attention. I’ve learnt that making the magazine more appealing to viewers takes time and effort as well as cooperation form certain people.Overall the final music magazine is far better set out and more attractive to readers.