Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Friday, 17 April 2015
Evaluation 5
5. How did you
attract/address your audience?
I tried to attract my audience by styling it off of
magazines like Kerrang which was already reaching the audience I intended to be
for my magazine, the way I did this was by trying to take elements from the
existing magazine and trying to implement them into mine, mostly I tried to do
this with the cover as that is what would draw in the people I wanted to, so I
had to make it appeal to them and the usual magazine conventions for the rock
genre are to have a large bold masthead with a signature font that people will
associate with it.
Also the artists I used in the magazine were reasonably
stylised to fit the genre of music and draw in the audience for that music, if
they see the artists on the cover and instantly assume what genre the magazine
is and what kind of content it will have in it.
The way I have decided to address my audience is through the
language register that I have used, this being a more informal register this
could also appeal to my audience as this shows it is not a generic music magazine
that doesn’t care about the music, so the text in the magazine shows feeling
and this is the kind of devotion that my audience may like to see in a music
magazine.
Evaluation question 2
2. How does your
media product represent particular social groups?
For my music artists I tried to base them off of other
artists such as Paramore and Pretty Reckless in the way of style in that the
lead is a woman and the backing musician are men. The clothes the men are
wearing are similar as they are just wearing dark T-shirts and jeans the same
as my male models and the women are wearing the same shade red lipstick that
makes them stand out from the males, but Hayley Williams is wearing more make
up like heavy eyeliner while my model is not and I could have used this on my
model to make her more stylised to the genre of music I am trying to target.
Differences with the male models are that they look a bit too clean cut for
what I am trying to achieve. There is
also a visible lack of tattoos, something that is commonly associated with this
genre and my intended audience. Other differences include the expressions on
the model’s faces. My models are smiling, whereas the Paramore members have a
serious expression which conveys a more dedicated approach to their music.
Through the style research in the first stage of this
project I was able to get some examples of how my audiences style came across
and applied a small amount to my models as I did not have the resources to
style them fully, more makeup could have been added to my woman model and
darker clothes and maybe something leather and for my male model he could have
been wearing just a T-shirt without the hoodie and put some fake tattoos on him
to give him more of an edgy look, if he also had some facial hair this could
have made the look a bit better too. I also used UK tribes as a way to see the
style of my audience, how they dressed what their other interests are, so I
could have got a bit of influence from those parts of the audience as well. My
main audiences from UK tribes would be the Hard core and Young Alts as they are
interested in the types of music my magazine would have in it.
Friday, 27 March 2015
Magazine Evaluation question 5 draft
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I tried to attract my audience by styling it off of
magazines like Kerrang which was already reaching the audience I intended to be
for my magazine, the way I did this was by trying to take elements from the
existing magazine and trying to implement them into mine, mostly I tried to do
this with the cover as that is what would draw in the people I wanted to, so I
had to make it appeal to them and the usual magazine conventions for the rock
genre are to have a large bold masthead with a signature font that people will
associate with it.
Magazine Evaluation question 4 draft
The audience I intend my media product to appeal to is more
the rock side of my audience and this is because I have included bands in the
contents and on the front page that people more interested in this genre would
be interested in. If my magazine reaches this area I think it would do well as
most magazines containing or focusing on this genre are widely shared and
appreciated by the members of that group.
An example of the audience I am trying to reach would be Dan
Mellar, he is in full time education, plays the guitar and has been into rock
music for a long time favouring older bands but still liking newer rock bands
that are emerging, bands he is into include Royal Blood, Pretty Reckless,
Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon and others similar to these bands and this is
the audience I am trying to appeal to so I think Dan would be interested in
what my magazine has to offer. He is also in the age range I am catering more
towards that being 16-30 as I believe this is an age range of the people most
devoted to following music especially my genre.
Magazine Evaluation question 3 draft
Bauer:
Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s
largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire
offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio
stations. Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of
many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio -
widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators.
Bauer could distribute my magazine on a large scale through
the UK and possibly internationally, as Bauer already publishes Kerrang if it
published my magazine it may be able to reach more of that audience and offer
an alternative to Kerrang. This may also corner the market on these types of
magazines and ultimately dominate the genre.
Friday, 20 March 2015
Draft Evaluations
1. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e. of
music magazines)
When making my magazine I was largely influenced by Kerrang
and NME, these magazines are probably the closest to the genre of music
(Rock/Alternative) I was looking to focus on and stylistically I have tried to
model aspect of my magazine off of them.
The masthead of my magazine ‘Grizzly’ I used the font ‘right brew’ which was downloaded from DaFont.com. The font is large and a bit distorted; I chose the distortion so the text would seem grimy and this could show that the magazine isn't all that clean cut and has more than just the regular charts music, and maybe appeal to the rock audience more. Through the title itself ‘Grizzly’ I was trying to make a powerful title and make it have the impression that it's something big, hard-hitting and just different.
The graphology of my front cover is quite simple with a large central image taking up the whole cover with the headline lower down the page as not to distract to much from the image, but bright enough to be seen and read clearly. The contents page has been set out so the main article of the magazine is in clear view and central on the page and the other content has large headings so is easy to see.For the double page spread I used the intermediate page
layout to find the main points of interest on the page and tried to put the key
parts of the images and text inside the rectangles for the best effect.
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