The document discusses the conventions and layout of rock music magazines. It describes elements like the banner at the top of the page, big coverlines, side articles, photo advertisements, editor letters, columns, quotes in interviews, and subscription offers that are commonly found. It also explains how the covers and contents pages were designed following these conventional styles, with banners, posters, competitions, big titles and introductions. Images and editing were used to represent the punk, emo and gothic social groups that make up the target audience.

2. My product has the
conventional layout of a rock
music magazine with the
banner at the top of the page
and the big coverline for the
band. Kerrang! also uses
coverlines in the same places
and has the side articles like I
do.

3. This contents has all the
conventional effects such
as the picture advertising
an article and the
subscription offer in the
bottom corner. Also there
are many articles and
along with the usual
conventional things which
I have already mentioned,
I have used an editor
letter as this is
conventional too.

4. This double page spread has
all the conventional pieces
needed such as the heading
and the description. There is a
quote which I have added due
to it being in most interviews
you see in magazines about
famous people. There are
columns used for the effect of
it looking like a real magazine
and not a draft, and the
image is quite big because it is
conventional for
the images to be so.

5. This is the template I used for
the cover. As you can see, it has
the big coverline for the main
band and the banner at the top.
Using other covers as well, I
found out that one of the
conventions for a music
magazine from this genre is the
poster advert in the corner and
the competition in the top of
the page. Also the banner at the
top and bottom of the page
advertising the bands that are
in the issue.

6. Again with this cover, it has the
same conventions as the previous
one, big image in the middle of the
page with a poster advertisement
at the top. Again, there is a
competition circle in the corner
and two banners; one at the top
and one at the bottom to say what
artists are there in that issue.

7. As for this contents
example that I used for my
contents, it has a big image
of a band and a description
of what it is about; it also
has a lot of page listings
due to there being a lot of
articles. An editors letter is
at the bottom and there is
a subscription
advertisement in the
bottom right hand corner.

8. This double page spread has an
interview in columns and it has a
quote to the side of the page on
top of the image. In an interview, it
is conventional to have a quote in
the article and a kicker in the
beginning of the article. The big
title and the introduction are
conventional
too.

9. In this double page spread, the quote is in
the middle of the text and this is just an
article with quotes from Amy Lee from
Evanescence. Again, the title is quite big
and the introduction is underneath it like
my double page spread and the previous
example.

10. Looking at this cover again (I
have edited it since the first
time it had been shown) I
have added a banner at the
bottom so now the cover has
both a banner at the bottom
and the top. There are more
article names down the side
of the cover. Looking at the
other front covers, I have
seemed to get all of the
conventions from this genre
of music magazine into one
page.

11. The conventions of this
page have been looked
at, and looking at the
example contents page, I
think I have captured all
of the conventions on
one page. There is the
subscription offer and the
editors note plus the title
names (news; posters;
reviews etc)

12. From the first draft that I put up on here, I have added more questions and I have
looked at the conventions from the other two double page spreads that I have
added onto this PowerPoint. On this double page spread, the conventions are
highlighted and so you can see them in comparison to the other pages. I think I have
captured them perfectly in this page.

14. The front cover and the contents
represent the social groups punk
and emo more than anything.
This is done by the clothes that
the band is wearing and the
different colours used. My main
colours are black, yellow and red.
These colours are used within a
punk/rock/emo genre of
magazine and music. The colours
are also used within the social
groups goth, emo and punk.
The camerawork on the cover creates the representation by having them
all look a certain way (Will didn’t do that) and having the photo straight
and not slanted has a big effect on the cover and how it looks. The
camerawork on the photo in the contents has had an effect as it doesn’t
look posed so it represents the bands and single people playing guitar at
their gigs.

15. Again, the social groups represented in the page are punk, goth and emo. This is done again by
the colours but also by the clothing that Misty is wearing. The editing also shows the social
genre again with the dark, grungy look of the photo. It shows the social groups by the answers
to the questions and the colours of the font.

17. Bauer Media would distribute my media product because they publish all the
rock types of magazine like Kerrang!
They also would distribute it because they would be interested in what the
magazine has to offer with some different styles of music mixed in such as
the folk side with Mark Gibson and the pop/r&b genre with Misty Jones. The
articles written are good because they show what the bands/singers are like and
also the way they deal with the issues they deal with as a person.

19. The audience for my media product would be the stereotyped Goths, emos and punks.
This is because although there are other magazines out there for them, this music
magazine tries to get to know them and would be one of the things when everything
goes wrong for them much like the teen pop magazines are there for the teenyboppers
when something goes wrong for them. They can drool over the much hated Justin Bieber
and One Direction when they are upset whilst the punk, emo, gothic people wouldn’t do
that. If we were to drool over anyone, it would be Jeremy McKinnon from A Day To
Remember and Zak Merrick from All Time Low…
Guys would look to this magazine if they break
down because they can relate to the
issues in it. With the band members how they
were “always picked on for their choice of
style and clothing” and if they want to drool,
instead of looking at Selena Gomez and
Demi Lovato; they can look at Taylor Momsen
from The Pretty Reckless and Hayley
Williams from Paramore.

21. I attracted my audience in many different ways such as the big bold writing on the front
cover. This bold writing catches the eye and attracts you towards the magazine.
When creating my front cover, I had to think about the aesthetics of it and who the
audience was. This had an effect on what I called the magazine and what colours I used.
Both my polls (name and colour) had a variety of options and most people chose their
options carefully to go with my genre choice – rock/metal/punk. I had done 2 polls for the
same thing (the title) and the final vote was menace. This attracted the audience because
they would have had an active vote in what it was called and what colours were used.
The photos on the cover were taken of a punk/rock/metal band I know and the kid in the
corner is someone I know who plays guitar. This all attracted the audience because as it is a
punk/metal/rock magazine, I wanted to have people along that genre on the cover to
catch the eye of the audience so they can read it.

22. The photo editing also came along in attracting the audience because if I did no editing to
the photo, it would have looked like this…
It looks like it is pop music and doesn’t look too
appealing for a punk/rock/metal magazine. The
editing of the photo, added grunge and dark patches
making the original photo look like this.
This photo looks darker and has more
shape to it unlike the previous one
where it looks bright and happy. The
photo on the cover looks slightly
different with the house and the sky
being cut out of the frame so it looks
something like this.
This photo has been tilted so that the
band look straight. The audience are
attracted by this because it looks like
Will (the guy in red) is looking at them
and also it looks like the band are
looking at their friends, should he have
any near him when picking up the
magazine.

24. Within the process of constructing the magazine, I have learnt more
about using my camera and I have learnt about the different conventions
for a magazine. In Photoshop, I have learnt how to add more things to
the layer without it being crowded and I have learnt about how to use a
layer mask which I didn’t know beforehand.
I have learnt about how to identify the different genres and I have learnt
what a masthead and a kicker is and how to identify the font style.

26. This is my preliminary task, to create a front cover and contents page from a school
magazine. I have learnt how to put together a proper looking contents and the layout is
much better. The layout of the cover page, is good in this version but much better in my
full product. This magazine is much simpler as I had limited understanding of how to
create magazine pages and what people liked within them.

27. As you can see with the final cover, it is much more cluttered and you want to read it but with
the school magazine cover, it is simple and boring. There is not much on the page but just a few
words and you really do no know what is inside of it. On the final cover of the rock magazine,
you can see what is inside, even with the cover. This also has a big feature in the middle catching
your eye so you can see what band is being featured that day.

28. With the contents page, again it is much more cluttered but there is also more to look at and
you have a better idea of what’s in the issue whereas the school contents page has very little on
it and isn’t realistic. The first draft of the contents page has good article names on it and an
editors note which all magazines have to have. However, it is very vague and although there are
quite a few pictures on it, it isn’t enough to warrant being good enough to actually being in a
magazine. With the current final draft, there are plenty of articles and although few pictures, it
is made up for with writing and articles.