Final Magazine Front Cover.

This is the front cover of my magazine.

Final Contents Page

This is the contents page of my magazine.

Final Double Page Spread Article.

This is the double page spread article I created for the magazine.

Preliminary Task, Front Cover & Contents Page

This is my final cover of my school magazine, for the preliminary task.

This is my contents page.

Question 1.

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

Magazine Cover - How it develops, challenges and conforms to conventions on Prezi

Contents Page - How it develops, challenges and confroms to conventions on Prezi

Double Page Spread - How is develops, challenges and conforms to conventions on Prezi

Question 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How my magazine relates to social groups

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Question 3.

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

Question 4.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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This may be the kind of music my target audience would listen to, Mastodon.

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Question 5.

How did you attract/ address your audience?

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Question 6.

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

Technology used in producing my magazine

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Question 7.

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

Production- Double Page Spread Article

I, The Silhouette

 I, The Silhouette are fast becoming the UK’s next major metal act and they are already smashing the boundaries between genres. Their reputation for insane live shows is propelling them to the top, quicker than even they could imagine. This band are talented, new and undoubtedly brilliant. Mercury investigates this rapid rise to fame.

Squashed together in their current rehearsal space (guitarist Tom’s bedroom) the boys look like a small time wannabe metal band, but they are far from wannabe’s. Each member brings something unique to the table. Vocals are provided by Ryan, the baby of the band at just 17 brings a Randy Blythe meets Ian Kenny type quality, which is truly something special. Guitarist Tom delivers technical genius, channelling the great Misha Mansoor of djent gods Periphery. Bassist Jamel gives the band the hardcore punk edge that really makes them powerfully different, and adds the raw live energy styled on bands such as The Chariot. This band may seem like a motley assortment of genres but the sound really works. The original drummer could not keep up with the energy, so the revolving cast of drummers keeps the audience guessing, but each one seems better than the next.

When asked why they are special, the band said “We are just passionate about music; we enjoy all these different genres so we wanted to make something a little bit out there that no one had heard before. I think people like that about us.” They were right; with a full UK tour and various festivals under their belts they are certainly attracting a sizable following. “Fans are great; they are what makes the live shows so fun. They are the partly reason we make music.” Influenced by bands such as Deftones, Converge, Periphery and the mighty Carcass, the boys were always bound to have such fanatic worshipers.

It has not been all hard work for the band though; they only started writing songs a month after they formed. “Our chemistry is too good at times, sometimes we mess about so much we never get anything done. We seriously needed to knuckle down.” Watching them rehearse it is clear how much they have progressed music wise, but they are still teenagers, throughout the interview they sing songs about steak and kidney pie and try to kill each other with air bazookas. It has to be said the band are up for anything regarding the live shows. “At shows there is always someone bleeding by the end, we had a girl who broke her nose last week and some cracked ribs. No one ever seems to care though, because they all have a good time. We like to see people who are missing teeth but come up and tell us how fun the show was, if you’re bleeding we know we did a good job.” Jamel shows us his most recent performance injury, “I smashed by elbow on the amp, after the show I had to go to A&E. That’s a sign of success.”

Rough Layout of Double Page Spread

This is the rough layout of double page spread article.

Production- Images for Front Cover, Contents and Double Page Spread Article

These are the images I have used or taken during the production stage.

Images

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Audience Research

What gender are you?  Male: 10 Female: 10
Conclusion: The  amount of males and females is equal, so I will try to aim the magazine at both genders but I think I will lean slightly towards males.

What age are you?

Conclusion: Most people were between 14-19, so I will aim my magazine at teenagers but also make it feel inclusive of other age ranges.


What is your favourite genre of music?

Conclusion: The most popular genre was Classic Rock, so I will include more Classic Rock articles in the magazine.


Who is your favourite band or singer?

Favourite bands

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Conclusion: Most favourite bands are rock and metal so I will include these in my magazine.


What price would you pay for a magazine?

Conclusion: I will price the magazine at £3.00, because that was the price most people are willing to pay.


What 3 words would you associate with Heavy Metal?

What is your favourite colour?

Conclusion: Black was the most popular colour, so I will use black in the colour scheme.



How often would you buy a magazine?
Weekly: 8 Monthly:12

Conclusion: This means I will make my magazine a monthly publication.

What do you like about magazines?
The most popular answer was posters.

Conclusion: I will include a free poster with my magazine.

What do you not like about magazines?
The most popular answer was adverts.

Conclusion: I will try not to have too many adverts.

What is your favourite song?

Favourite song

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Conclusion for Favourite Songs: The songs are mostly rock and metla so I will include these genres in my magazine.

Article Research

Questions I asked to the interview:

• How did you form?
• What made you want to pursue music?
• Who influences you and why?
• Do you have a favourite band?
• What are your aspirations for the future?
• What is the chemistry like in the band?
• Does your old band feel like competition?
• Does being associated with them annoy you?
• How difficult was it to break into the scene?
• How can you compete with the more established bands out there?
• What makes you different from other bands?

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/magazine/ I looked at past layouts of Metal Hammer articles to get inspiration for the article I am going to write and too see what kind of questions I should ask.

I already knew the band I interviewed so I asked them things as article research.

Planning Production

Cover Image:  Girl dressed in ‘metal’ clothing holding a bass guitar.

Cover lines:  

·         Morbid Angel- ‘Greatest Death Metal Album’ of all time?

·         Death reunion – Shannon Hamm confirms rumours. Exclusive!

·         Behemoth- Nergal, cancer and the new album.

·         Burzum- Varg’s new black metal venture.

·         I, The Silhouette- the new band that is breaking genres.

Text for the contents page

Regular Content:

·         Reviews (new bands and albums) 

·         My Life Story... (an article of the lives of famous metal heads) 

·         Access All Areas! (behind the scenes are major gigs and festivals) 

·         Albums that shaped my life (albums that influenced major bands) 

·         Underground (new and upcoming bands)

·         Metal Health (A history of famous metal bands)

·         Gigs of the month (gig listings of all the best gigs in that month) 

·         The Satan Supplement (A small insert dedicated to Black Metal)

·          Reader feedback (feedback from the last issue)

·         Devil's Tritone (guitar masters teach us the basics month by month

Feature Content:

 

·         Death reunion exclusive- new album and upcoming tour of Europe. Shannon Hamm gives the interview.

·         1349- New album from the Norwegian metal maestro’s.

·         Burzum- Varg fresh from prison talks about his newest black metal venture.

·         Gorgoroth- splitting up?

·         Messugah- on tension within the band

·         Devin Townsend- On metal genres.

·         Mastodon and Opeth- to collaborate?

 

·         I, The Silhouette- the brand new band talk about breaking genres.

·         Arve 'Ice Dale' Isdal- on his surprising musical influence

·         George 'Corpse Grinder' Fisher- creates a new super group, exclusive.

·         Morbid Angel- 'Greatest Death Metal Album' of all time?

·         Alan 'Nemtheanga' Averill- Reforming Void Of Silence.

·         Lamb Of God- NEW ALBUM! The hotly anticipated 'Resolution'. Track by track guide.

·         Jonas Berqvist (Nattdal or ‘B’) - A tribute to his life and music.

·         Behemoth - A new album and Nergal's amazing recovery from leukaemia.

·         Chloe – A one woman death metal marvel.

Title:  Contents, along with the date and the name of the magazine.

Images for the Contents page:

·         Image of the front cover of the magazine - placed by the title of the page.

·         Image of I, The Silhouette.

Article for the double page spread and images:

·         I, The Silhouette interview

·         Image of I, The Silhouette band

Publication Plan

This is the plan for my magazine after I have done my market research:

Title:


Positioning Statement: The heaviest metal magazine

Frequency of publication: Monthly

Price: £2.99

Distribution: bookshops eg,WH Smith, supermarkets eg, Tesco, newsagents, music shops eg, HMV and online shops eg, magazine.co.uk

Rationale: A magazine for true metal heads, who live for the music. The magazine will be more extreme than any of the others but at the same time be humorous and fun. It is aimed mainly at teenagers (14-19) but it will also appeal to a broad audience as well.

Style: Informal style, using humour and slang. The magazine is not afraid to be different and it has very strong opinions. Images will dominate the articles.

Regular Content:

Reviews (new bands and albums) 

My Life Story... (an article of the lives of famous metal heads) 

Access All Areas! (behind the scenes are major gigs and festivals) 

Albums that shaped my life (albums that influenced major bands) 

Underground (new and upcoming bands) 

Metal Health (A history of famous metal bands) 

Gigs of the month (gig listings of all the best gigs in that month) 

The Satan Supplement (A small insert dedicated to Black Metal)

 Reader feedback (feedback from the last issue)

Devil's Tritone (guitar masters teach us the basics month by month)

• Death reunion exclusive- new album and upcoming tour of Europe. Shannon Hamm gives the interview.
• 1349- Their newest album interview.
• Burzum- Varg fresh from prison talks about his newest black metal venture.
• Messugah- on tension within the band
• Mastodon and Opeth- to collaberate?
• Arve 'Ice Dale' Isdal- on his suprising muscial infulences
• I, The Silhouette- The brand new band talk about breaking genres
• George 'Corpse Grinder' Fisher- Creating a new super group, exclusive
• Morbid Angel - 'Greatest death metal album of all time?'
• Alan 'Nemethanga' Averill- Reforming Void of Silence
• Chole- She's coming to get you!
• Jonas Berquist (Nattdal or B)- Tribute to a musical genius
• Lamb of God- New album!
• Behemoth- Nergal's amazing recovery from leukaemia
• Aura Noir- to collaborate with Nattefrost
• Secrets of the Moon- reveal the new album and come back.

Headlines:

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Standfirst:

Felix Titling

Captions:

Felix Titling

Features first paragraph: drop capital in Arial

Body text:

Arial

Colour Scheme: Black, Red, White and Grey.

Questionnaire

This is the questionnaire I gave out for my audience research.

Analysis of Double Page Spread Articles

Today in lesson we analysed double page spread articles from different magazines. I chose Metal Hammer magazine to analyse and did this through Slideshare.net

Double Page Spread Analysis - Metal Hammer

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