EVALUATION QUESTION 3

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)


The genre for my magazine is rock, so for inspiration I felt other rock based magazines would be appropriate. A cover is what draws in your audience so I really focused on having a cover with impact and style. I ended up choosing a personal favourite that I have a subscription to, Kerrang. Their main 3 colour scheme is black,yellow, white and red which breaks the mould of the 3 colour scheme, so in response to this I also tried to break the mould by using using two colours. Black and white. Kerrang inspired me when I was designing my con-tense. Using a system of page numbers then a sentence that sums up the top story on that page I replicated what Kerrang achieve every week. This ensures the reader can scan through the con-tense and then they can prioritise what pages are most important to them. This also makes the reader read more because you are only giving away the top story. There could be much more to read. I used white lines to brand my magazine just like kerrang used distressed font and a overall messy layout with splats and boxes. For my DPS I was inspired by a kerrang DPS on the band blink 182 that I thought had a very effective layout.

Evaluation Questions

 

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

When deciding how i was going to dress and portray myself to the reader I took influence from many artists, but one in particular being Tom Delonge. Black jeans, leather jacket (he is not wearing one here but he is well known for it) and I made especially sure i wore cloths made by his clothing company Macbeth. I studied how he acted on stage and tried to emulate this. Wide stances, small bursts of action and sweeping stage presence are all typical of him. I tried to differ myself from him and add in a little bit of individuality. I play bass for one and he plays guitar. He adds a lot of humour into his performances whereas i tried to keep a serious tone over the whole shoot. He uses a lot of imagery in his music. A lot of masonic imagery is used in his music and his overall image and I tried to stray away from this, not being a freemason or having anything to promote. I tried to take certain aspects of his image and concentrate them down to just small things.