2. To stray away from the typical media
features of a magazine I have chosen
to differ in a few ways, but also still
follow the codes and conventions. I
have decided to use a live image for
the front cover and use live pictures as
a special edition but also a basis of my
magazine. I have searched existing
magazines and found that a lot use a
variety of pictures but a lot use studio
shots as the front cover or dominate in
the double pages. However I want to
break this stereotype and use live, in
depth pictures as my magazine is
portraying a more realistic feel to new
music. I want my audience to feel a
better connection rather than having
most completely posed, I want them to
experience a new style which makes
them excited to pick up and read but
also attracts them as it is very unique.
However I have still chosen to use a
few shots which are posed to follow the
basic magazine conventions.

3. I have used a live
image as a
special edition
to my magazine
as a live
coverage, it is
purely based on
live bands
performing.

4. As you can see, there are
hardly any magazines who
do this, however I have
found one from kerrang
which shows a live shot of
Billie Joe, the lead singer
from Greenday, posing live
on stage, we can tell this
from his guitar, the
lighting and also the facial
expression he is pulling is
not posed. I wanted to
challenge the forms of a
stereotypical magazine
and do something which
you would not expect, this
is why I have chosen to
use a live picture for the
front cover, however still
having a studio shot as
another to show the
contrast between the two.

5. Also finding no rock genre magazines which actually
contain a double page for their contents I thought to take
this up on a challenge and base mine with one. This
brings even more originality and uniqueness to Sound
Check, making it better than others because it has more
to offer and opens a whole new thing that hasn’t yet been
done before. Addition to this I have found that the use of
new media is very important, so I have chosen to add a
little twitter, facebook and instagram feed on one of the
double pages to show how the band interacts with their
fans and also what they have been up to. I want my
audience to feel a part of the band and their journey by
using tweets and pictures directly from them, this
creates a bond with my readers that they are just like
them, deep down normal people who have twitter,
facebook and instagram, which creates synthetic
personalisation to my audience.

6. You can see from these examples of how I
have tried to communicate with new
media and add a twitter feed, facebook,
instagram and youtube all to relate to
my audience and challenge the
stereotypical forms.

7. Hardly any existing magazines cater to
this uniqueness and use of social
networking sites which are popular to
New Media
my audience and something they also
find familiar as they use daily. There is
also links to exclusive music videos
and interviews on my pages which
create an online experience as well as
material copy this would make it more
accessible as easy for my target
audience to access as they are most
likely to be spending most of their time
on the internet. I have done this just for
them as I want to include. However I
have found that recently they have
tried to do this by adding pages of
interaction such as Kerrang mag, as
they have started to give competitions
towards readers and using a twitter
feed at the bottom. I have included this
in my contents page, as well as my
double pages.

8. THIS DOUBLE PAGE IS JUST
PURLEY FOR INSTAGRAM AND
FACEBOOK,WEHRE I HAVE
CHOSEN THEIR PICTURES TO
SHOW MY AUDIENCE OF WHAT
THEY POST