FINAL PRODUCTS

My Front Cover

My Contents Page 

My DPS 

Audience Research Interview

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

This was answered using Moovly, however in order to put the video onto my blog I had to upload it to YouTube and then embed the video into a post.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My media product might be distributed in a typical newsagent/superstore near other music magazines because there are several artists featured who are popular with the target audience, and this is an effective way for them to access the magazine. It could also be sold at rock concerts/music festivals because it is aimed at people who would enjoy those type of music events so it's logical to take the magazine to the people. Considering the target audience is relatively young, I would also suggest that the magazine could be available to download online or on an app as an act of embracing the digital age we are now in. I would circulate this magazine as a monthly product so that it is distributed frequently enough to keep consumers up to date on the events and news in the hard rock world, but not so frequently that purchasing it becomes a chore and essentially an unaffordable one. It will also be available on a subscription service so that regular buyers will be be able to receive the magazine straight to their home to save them he hassle of going and buying it, as well as them being rewarded with a slight discount by using annual subscription rather than a monthly buy.

Contents Page Editing

Contents Page

Front Cover

Front Cover Editing Process

Masthead Editing

I downloaded a font that I found acceptable for the hard rock genre and then edited it to fit the house style of my magazine. I added a gradient effect, then simply used the wand tool to select and cut the lettering of the font and pasted it onto a new layer on my front cover. 

Kerrang Contents Page Analysis

Front Cover Draft

This was my initial front cover draft. As can be seen here, I did not finish this draft because I quickly decided that the colours- in particular the white background- did not reflect the hard rock genre ideology of being dark but bold. The colour of the sell-line font does not work well with the background so I did not continue with that due to being undecided on how to amend this issue, and I also felt that white font of the headline gave almost a delicacy to the page- something definitely not suitable in a hard rock magazine. After deciding that this design was a dead end so to speak, I came up with the darker style that can be seen in my final product.

Front Cover Photography

These are some of the images I took during my front cover photo shoot. I have chosen these as my final 6 options because I feel that these are the images that best show the mise-en-scene of the hard rock genre, they convey the house style of my magazine well, and they are also of a good quality. In addition to this, all of these images use some use of shadow across the face of the model, so by editing the images I can create a chiarascuro effect to capture the audience more.

A problem I had whilst taking these images because they saved as an .ARW file rather than a JPEG, meaning I was unable to edit the images on my laptop but the Macbooks in school did not support the software needed to convert them. I resolved this problem by opening the images I would use in photoshop, and then saving the "edited" image as a jpeg.

DPS Editing Stages

Edited Final DPS

This is the final version of my DPS. I edited the guttering in the left hand column on the bottom right to make it more distinguished and I also added the banner in order to fill the white space that had been there previously.

MY DPS

Kasabian DPS Analysis

Representations in Kerrang!

Hard Rock Genre Research

Hard Rock Music Genre Research from byrne_a96