The document discusses the design choices made for a magazine cover representing a rock artist. Key themes and elements were taken from existing rock magazine covers, including having the artist holding a guitar and wearing black clothing. The cover was also designed to focus the artist in the center of the page like professional magazines. The pose chosen for the artist was inspired by poses commonly seen on other rock magazine covers - looking directly at the camera with a friendly expression to draw readers in.

1. By Dariusz Murray

2.  My media product represents particular social
groups in many ways. Looking at a few different
Rock Magazine covers, I suddenly realised that a
consistent theme throughout the magazines were
that the artist had an instrument in their hands. I
took this into account when taking my photos of
my artist for my magazine, and decided that I
would use a guitar for the instrument to be used
for my artist.
 Another thing that I added onto my artist was a
black hat. This was because another common
theme of Rock Magazines I noticed was the colour
black in terms of clothing. I think that this appeals
to my target audience of Rock Magazine buyers as
it stands out, and attracts them to the magazine
as it links to what they also wear. Looking at my
market research, I can see that the colour black is
a favoured colour of the target audience that I am
looking to entice.

3.  Here, you can see a clear comparison
of my magazine front cover, and a
professional magazine cover that I
followed. I tried to get the feel on how
a mainstream media has portrayed the
genre of Rock, and then input this into
my magazine. As you can see, I have
similar features to the professional
magazine, and I think that this shows
in my magazine quite well.
 Another comparison between my
magazine cover and the mainstream
media cover is that the artists are
focused in the middle of the page. This
clearly works and looks good on the
professional page, and I think I have
again portrayed this onto my page to
make it look as professional as I could.

4.  The pose of my artist for my
magazine was not a hard choice to
make. Looking again at several
professional rock magazines, I could
see that there was not really any
major poses consistent
throughout, and that each artist was
just plainly looking into the
camera, with not much facial
expressions. Also due to the sub-
genre of my magazine, I decided to
use a friendly pose that would draw
readers in to read more about my
magazine.