Monday, 28 April 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Evaluation - Question 1B
When designing my magazine, I followed the conventions of a typical music magazine as I knew by doing this my magazine would be successful, by challenging the conventions you are taking a risk on whether your magazine will be successful.
Skyline - The skyline on my music magazine is 'Exclusive interview with Catalyst!' most music magazines have a skyline which is usually talking about what is going to be in the magazine. The skyline is always positioned at the top of the magazine, it adds structure to the magazine and overall gives information to the reader,
Masthead - The masthead on my magazine is 'Blitz!' in bold black on a red background, by having the bold black writing on top of a red background the masthead stands out from the rest of the magazine. Also, the black colour of Blitz represents the rock side of the genre and the red background represents the pop side of the genre.
Anchorage text - The anchorage text on my music magazine as "Vendetta's Billie Mason" and "Question & Answer Inside', anchorage text is used to lure the audience into buying the magazine, usually when choosing your anchorage text you use words like 'exclusive'. However by putting "Vendetta's Billie Mason' I am luring in fans of Vendetta as a band or Billie Mason as an artist. Also, by putting "Question & Answer Inside" this will make people want to buy the magazine to look at the questions that have been asked and the answers Billie Mason gives.
Sell lines - The sell lines in my magazine is linked in with my skyline, the word 'exclusive' would make people buy the magazine as they want to see what is exclusive about the interview with Catalyst, also the names of bands; Immersion, Vendetta, Catalyst and Insomnia are used as sell lines as by putting the names of bands on the magazine, you are straight away attracting the fans of these particular bands to buy your magazine.
Colour pallet - The colour pallet on my music magazine is black red and white, as my magazine is rock I thought it was important to get black as one of my main colours as black represents rock as a genre, however the white and red parts of the colour pallet highlight the pop side of the genre. By using bold colours like red and black, it will help people to be able to recognise my magazine easily e.g NME. The splash colour on my magazine is blue, a splash colour is a colour which is only on the magazine a bit, but it is still recognizable on the magazine.
Skyline - The skyline on my music magazine is 'Exclusive interview with Catalyst!' most music magazines have a skyline which is usually talking about what is going to be in the magazine. The skyline is always positioned at the top of the magazine, it adds structure to the magazine and overall gives information to the reader,
Masthead - The masthead on my magazine is 'Blitz!' in bold black on a red background, by having the bold black writing on top of a red background the masthead stands out from the rest of the magazine. Also, the black colour of Blitz represents the rock side of the genre and the red background represents the pop side of the genre.
Anchorage text - The anchorage text on my music magazine as "Vendetta's Billie Mason" and "Question & Answer Inside', anchorage text is used to lure the audience into buying the magazine, usually when choosing your anchorage text you use words like 'exclusive'. However by putting "Vendetta's Billie Mason' I am luring in fans of Vendetta as a band or Billie Mason as an artist. Also, by putting "Question & Answer Inside" this will make people want to buy the magazine to look at the questions that have been asked and the answers Billie Mason gives.
Sell lines - The sell lines in my magazine is linked in with my skyline, the word 'exclusive' would make people buy the magazine as they want to see what is exclusive about the interview with Catalyst, also the names of bands; Immersion, Vendetta, Catalyst and Insomnia are used as sell lines as by putting the names of bands on the magazine, you are straight away attracting the fans of these particular bands to buy your magazine.
Colour pallet - The colour pallet on my music magazine is black red and white, as my magazine is rock I thought it was important to get black as one of my main colours as black represents rock as a genre, however the white and red parts of the colour pallet highlight the pop side of the genre. By using bold colours like red and black, it will help people to be able to recognise my magazine easily e.g NME. The splash colour on my magazine is blue, a splash colour is a colour which is only on the magazine a bit, but it is still recognizable on the magazine.
Monday, 3 March 2014
Evaluation - Question 1A
In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
When designing my magazine, I thought it was important that there was aspects of a music magazine like Kerrang within my magazine, all successful magazines follow the same conventions, they just have a different way of showing it. The typical conventions of a successful music magazine is a masthead, main image, anchorage text, strap line and colour pallet. Throughout the topic, I have been annotating many different music magazines, below is an image of a Kerrang magazine which I annotated earlier on in the course.
By annotating Kerrang, I was able to see what is expected of my rock magazine, as Kerrang is a successful rock magazine, by following the conventions of this magazine then my magazine may be able to follow in the footsteps of Kerrang.
When designing my magazine, I thought it was important that there was aspects of a music magazine like Kerrang within my magazine, all successful magazines follow the same conventions, they just have a different way of showing it. The typical conventions of a successful music magazine is a masthead, main image, anchorage text, strap line and colour pallet. Throughout the topic, I have been annotating many different music magazines, below is an image of a Kerrang magazine which I annotated earlier on in the course.
By annotating Kerrang, I was able to see what is expected of my rock magazine, as Kerrang is a successful rock magazine, by following the conventions of this magazine then my magazine may be able to follow in the footsteps of Kerrang.
Monday, 24 February 2014
Evaluation - Question 2C
A social group is a group of people who share specific interests/social relation through things such as music and fashion. Within society there is many different social groups, including Rock, Mods and Indie. When creating my music magazine I was mainly focusing on the rock social group, when thinking of rockers you think of dark clothes, long hair, dark make up and rock music. However, I didn't want my magazine to be dull and boring so I mixed in the genre of pop, by having elements of pop I was able to use more brighter colours in comparison to the dark colours you use to represent rock.
Below is a photo of Fall Out Boy, a rock band who may come under the Pop-Rock genre as throughout their career they have had many songs in the charts. However, each member of the band has a piece of dark clothing on, this representing the rock side of the band. Also, the fact that three out of the four members have dark beards while one has tattoos on his body, beards and tattoos may be seen as something which represents rock as a genre as within Rock there are many artists with tattoos and beards.
Below is a photo of Fall Out Boy, a rock band who may come under the Pop-Rock genre as throughout their career they have had many songs in the charts. However, each member of the band has a piece of dark clothing on, this representing the rock side of the band. Also, the fact that three out of the four members have dark beards while one has tattoos on his body, beards and tattoos may be seen as something which represents rock as a genre as within Rock there are many artists with tattoos and beards.
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