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6.What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

From this task i have learnt how to use a Nikon SLR camera in detail as i have used many different settings to obtain the pictures i have used.

even though i didn't work in a studio lighting was still a problem and i learnt how to reduce and increase light and the affects of it on the image, i also learnt how to adapt and take images in live situations.

After the photos were took and they were ready to become a complete magazine, i learnt how to use basic controls of photo shop cs4 and i learnt how to alter the pictures saturation, exposure and how to blur and burn images. i then learnt how to use photo shop in a little more depth(beyond editing pictures) to create my contents page, front cover and the backdrop for my double page spread.

however i used publisher to input the text and several adjustments to the double page spread, to do this i learnt to use columns and how to use text boxes wisely.

After all this i managed to pick up the basic skills of blogging (on blog spot). creating posts, adding pictures and editing text. Also how to edit html.

On my journey to completing my coursework as you can see from as group13 (my previous group), i learnt how to use the basics of a digital camera and how to edit on premier.

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5.How Did You Attract/Address your audience?

I used a few similar techniques kerrang and terrorizer use to attract their audience, for example using the main subject of the main article as the front cover, as this is usually of a well known artist of the genre of music i was aiming to breach (metal). also kerrang keep their front cover busy and put loads of other band names on the front of other articles inside, they also use words like "exclusive" and "win" to give the feel the news/article is just in that magazine so they must buy it. i have used this as my magazine is aimed at a almost similar audience.

Here You Can see where i used a quote to attract the readers attention and shows the article is interesting to read.

Heavy Bands/Culture


My unique selling point is that i combined the culture with the heavy music they listen to instead of having one or the other like kerrang and metal hammer. to do this i used the general dress style, colour interest and overall style to address that of my target audiences, then i used the heavy bands my target audience would typically listen to.

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4.Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

My Target Audience was teenagers ranging from an age of 14 upwards, I used images fonts and colors to help aim my magazine at teenagers of who are interested in the “scene” culture and enjoy heavy rock and metal music. These people tend to wear loud clothing, have extremely styled hair, wear skinny jeans, like horrors for example dead set and saw, you may find them at skate parks, and they tend to think of life as one large party.

I think many people would be interested in my magazine as it includes many things that interest my target audience also it is reasonably priced and may open another sector to the market as this culture is not really catered for as kerrang includes the culture and style whereas metal hammer includes the music, there isn’t really an in-between therefore I believe my magazine would sell well and may become a popular magazine within that culture.

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3. What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media?

Both future and bauer are well established publishing companies who already distribute similar products. I believe either of these two may be interested as my magazine is sort of in the middle of kerrang and metal hammer.

Bauer is an overseas based distributer who distributes internationally and Future is a company with offices in the UK, Australia and the US distributing worldwide.

Circulation!

Bauer Media is the largest privately owned media publishing group in Europe. The group is a worldwide media empire offering 230 magazines and more in about 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.

Future plc is a media company that, in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the It publishes over 150 magazines in fields such as Music, video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography, Future are the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers.

Price!
Here are some of the main magazine prices

Kerrang- £2.20

Metal Hammer- £4.25

Terrerizor - £3.80

After considering these publication prices I decided to go with £2.99 as it is not a monthly magazine so it won’t have as much content as metal hammer would so I went for a price between £2 and £3 as my target audience is similar to kerrang, as I believed that was a reasonable price.

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2. How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

For the front page I choose a pose I found on the internet of a idol of the metal scene, “Oliver Sykes”, but I decided to manipulate the pose to add a little “aggression” to my front page to make it seem more interesting and original, I did this by adding a “grrr” face to the pose and make it look like all the effort was put into ripping the jacket off.


Another influence I took for the live photo shoot was the image of “jade Puget” another big artist in the scene social groups I took the similar low angle shot looking up as it gives the feel to the reader as though they are at the gig.

These are typical images of “scene” kids of whom I was aiming to get my magazine out to, from ages 14 to 24 and onwards. My magazine depicts this social group mainly due to the hair style and the “59fifty” hat as this is typical wear of “scene” kids.

I used this dress scheme as in the likes of metal hammer and kerrang it is very unusual to see this type of head wear. Mainly as kerrang is aimed at the punk/ rock scene, and metal hammer is aimed at the heavy metal/metal head scene. So I thought this would help make my magazine individual as this scene is not really catered for.

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1.In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge conventions of real media products?

The Title I chose was "un-masked" as the name felt catchy and memorable, also chose this as it is one of the main aims of the magazine - to unmask the music scene to given in depth interview for the audience.

The font I chose to use is "feast of flesh" and "birth of a hero", I chose this as it gave a grungy feel to the magazine I also used this font as it is the general style of the music scene I was trying to portray in my magazine, it is a similar font to kerrang and metal .

There wasn’t much to costumes all I chose for my models to wear was normal everyday clothes that the target audience might be seen wearing for example: Band t shirt, jeans and suitable wristbands. However there area few props I did use to help depict the audience these were: "59fifty" cap (as to oppose to kerrang who target mainly teenagers who go with the mainstream fashion but like punk and heavy rock), BC rich warlock (typical metal guitar) and an iPod touch.

However there was one clear obvious accessory that is majorly important to the "scene" audience I was aiming for and that’s the hair:


I used live pictures to the magazine to show the magazine isn’t just a one trick pony, so not just photo shoot images, this also helps make the magazine more interesting for the audience. Which are used a lot in other magazines this will help show our profession able sense and that our magazine could be as great as kerrang.

In my magazine I used instruments that are typically used in a metal band, I did this to help show the audience that we re not just about the latest gossip but the music too as to challenge kerrang as they use similar shots

For the studio shots I used props to help create sense that it’s an actual recording studio it’s relaxed and laid back. Also to show the fun side of recording.

For my photo shoot I decided to do it in a bedroom rather than a studio to help reach out to the audience and show them how the "stars" are quite sociable, it also lets the reader feel privileged as the bedroom shots make the overall article feel more personal.

This apposes kerrang and metalhamer as to contrast to their main article pictures of the stars "superposing" and sometimes "pouting" O.o

The Genre I was aiming for was the “new” Metal scene as listened to by the social groups known as “scene” and “metal heads”.

I have shown this in my magazine as the fonts I have used are similar to that used by bands and magazines in the same sector of the market... Also I tried to keep a main colour theme of black, white, red and purple which is the main colours that attract the social groups I was aiming to hit. To oppose to magazines and have originality to my magazine I added a spurt of colour here and there to take the reader away from just four colours and make my magazine more interesting.