6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

I would most likely be going down the path of worldwide magazine distributors, the reason is because of this (a quote form their website)  "WWMD handles over 3000 magazine titles in every market sector with an emphasis on specialist and niche titles and our clients usually stock anywhere between one and 300 titles. If you are a specialist retailer we will build a magazine sales programme targeted to your customers and designed to support your core products." In essence, it would work better for my magazine as there is a pre determined audience for my magazine, and with the amount of magazines they distribute i could have some advertisement in other sector of magazines such as gardening and food to get more awareness of my magazine. Also they specialise in all types of magazines especially niche titles like mine.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I think, in my opinion that i have been able to design a magazine that could be issued to the public and bought. I have stayed on the basic level in terms of design but have tried to expresses and push the boundaries of my creativity in this project. starting out i did not stick t the style models and produced some out there creations but after reigning in the ideas and sticking to basic methods of magazine design i managed to crete a piece that i am quite proud of.

My cover is mainly based on a mixture of Q magazine and NME, two large magazines in the music world, the layout design is based of on NME's basic layout design and i believe this works with my own design and picture, the blank background adds a stand out effect ti my picture, and the white writhing on the red boarders adds a eye-catching stand out effect my opinion and works well in a colour scheme. this colour scheme was borrowed from the Q logo as it really stands out and catches the eye of anyone looking at it. I tried to keep in the same writing layout as the NME style model I picked out but add some of my own twists to it at the same time, for example the 'RHINO' heading is across the picture but on an angle to add some diversity to ht design as the other style models didn't have that slanted design and it worked well with my ideas. it is also a technique that is more affiliated with the younger generation with young children's and teenagers magazines using slanted writing t make it eye-catching. for example this was done as to attract my target audience which is 13-19 year olds. I added popular names on the cover to try and attract more readers, for example, adding Ozzy Oboune and motorhead and lemmy will appeal to the metal heads, Beatles for Rock and roll fans, also Guns and roses for the hard rock fan army, this would be the basis of getting a wider audience for my magazine and is what all major magazines do to attract a lager audience and i have adapted this technique as it is majorly successful in the magazine world. 

My contents page i based of the q magazine contents page. You can see that the basic set up is copied as is with the front cover, I've added a twist. My red boarder has come back to add a house style along with the white on red writing technique.

This is a flip effect of the colour scheme used by Q here where they have a red title with white background and black writing, I have used a black heading with red background and white writing, This was to add my own features and not just copying. I ahve added more pictures to make the page itself more interw=esting and not bland like a lot of contence pages are. But i have added the social media nd website information on the contence page to add my own twist on the more commonly used front cover information

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

my magazine portrays the rock and metal culture of the music world. It is a very small and rapidly reducing social group of mainly older people and socially outcast teenagers. The big names on the cover like the combination megadeth and metallica to make metadeth, Ozzy ozborne, Queen, the Beatles, slayer, anthrax, slipknot, motorhead, Lemmy and Corey Taylor. The colour scheme is white red and black, colours which are mainly associated with Rock and Roll. The4 word hell is used which is also associated with Rock and roll and metal. The Iron Maiden T-shirt that rhino has on suggests that there is a rock or metal theme, to the magazine, simply because Iron Maiden is a large band in the metal world and are a house hold name for anyone as all people have had to have heard of iron maiden.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

names of bands
colour scheme
colour scheme

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary tack I have noticed that so many things have gotten better, by a large standard.
We can see that the editing around the head has significantly increased in standards, my creation skills have definitely improved also, for example:

This is my prelim task, it is obvious from the pictur epresented here on the cover that my editing skills were not very good, infact I was a beginner, we can see the editing round the head if awefol the sholder cropping is also quite bad, it is far from te wrost ive ever seen but it does come close.

Where as the cropped image from the final product is much more crisp and clean around the head, the edges are much more defined and stand out eyecatching. 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

I would mainly aim my magazine at at teenagers from 13 to 19 years in specifics, this is because a younger audience may not understand my magazine double page story enough to fully appreciate the deepness of the story. Also I wouldn't aim it at older than 19 as they wouldn't care enough about the story. Not to say that people out of the age range cant read it ti is just i want to mainly aim the product at 13 to 19, mainly as i can get away with a more diverse story line and fir people to fully appreciate the bands in my magazine.

cover design

For my magazine i started off with a blank canvas of A4, i then proceeded to crop the background out of my picture I chose and paste onto the canvas and reduce the size to make room for text and headlines.

the colour scheme was adapted from Q magazine as it is a popular magazine and the colours fitted well with the concepts I had thought of.

I then added a red border to allow for some background like in Q magazine only my own take on it. A mix of the Q and NME styles that is a theme through out my magazine.

I added both titles and a black background to the boarder to emphasise a title that will go there. 

I added the main attractions of the magazine on the sided of the magazine