Evaluation question one

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

Front page Front pageThe masthead of my music magazine is “lyric culture” and I believe it represents the indie/rock genre and the font and colour scheme suggest that. The reason why I select these words for my masthead as I believe the represent the genre of the magazine as the lyric and culture suggest how music is very praised by many people and how many stick to one genre such as indie/rock creating a sense of a indie/rock cult to that particular genre. The two font style of the masthead that I selected are a type writer of the work lyric ad for the word culture I used a quite edgy font. Both of these fonts suggest to the my selected target audience that the magazine is quite edgy rock magazine as the colour scheme I’ve chosen is white and black create a sense of contrast and a dark look to the that magazine.

design and layout/house style/Guttenberg principlehouse style: the house style of my magazine consist of the colours red, black and white as the selected colours used are represent the ides of rebellion, edginess, quite dark and outgoing music. The reason I selected these colours for my front cover was too create a sense of contrast as each colour makes everything look more bolder to the audiences eye as I used certain colours that’s are known to catch my select genres eye such as the colour red which is used for my cover lines to attract my target audience. The fonts used are in various sizes to show important and what’s more interesting to read in the magazine that the audience will enjoy. The font used for the USP (unique selling point) is to show what the this issue of the music magazine will be the mostly focused about.

Guttenberg principle:Primary optical area: the primary optical area focuses on the masthead and one of the cover lines “the 1975 global success” which are one of the most important to the magazine as people are aware the title of the magazine is and also what the magazine will contain which will attract them to buy the magazine.Strong fallow area: the strong fallow area focus on one of the cover lines about the band the royal blood at the brits which a event that accrued in the music industry that was very entertaining to watch and hear about, which will attract audiences as more people want to know what the artist felt about their experience at the brits.Weak fallow area: in the weak fallow area there is now information that is important for the audience to read about as there a black space.Terminal area: the terminal area focus on the USP on the magazine the main cover story Laura Stott which will gain audiences interest as it’s the second thing they see after seeing the primary optical area focus point.

photography /mise en scene/rule of thirds/propsIn the main image used for my front cover I didn’t uses any props because i believe that a simple image can still attract the target audience without using any props. I used the rule of third to make the magazine to appear more sophisticated and make the magazine look more organized when adding my cover lives to my front cover. the picture was taken in a shop in the north quarter in Manchester which is known for quiet indie and the main image did original have many objects in the background but it didn’t represent the genre of the magazine so I eased the background on Photoshop to make the image more edgier which made the magazine more effective.

Special effects any image manipulation you have used on photography.For the front cover image I did use photograph shop to make the main protagonist look more edger to represent the indie/rock genre, and also create an idea a rebellion which the selected genre is quite know for being edgy and rebellious music compared to the genres such as POP.The editing technique used on this image was brightness and contrast to manipulate the image to make the image appear darker as the house style of the magazine is red, black and white which represent the music genre.

Contents pageThe title of the Magazine: The font used for the content page was the type writer text as I wanted the text of the contents page to match the masthead of the magazine and changed the boldness of different page titles to give the idea to the audience which pages are more important and which will be more appealing.The colour scheme is red, black and white to match the front cover colour scheme but used a white background to create contrast with the other colour to make ten fonts to appear much bolder that using a black background that I used on the front cover.

design and layout/house style/Guttenberg principlehouse style: colour used for the font and the overall design is red, white and black. the font colour used is red and black to which look much bolder with the white background creating a sophisticated look to the magazine.Font: the font used for the main writing for this page the type writer font to match the font used for the masthead word lyric. In this content page some of the words and numbers appear bigger and bolder than other suggesting to the audiences theses will be more interesting and possible most important to read about.design and layout: the design layout of the contents page is set into three sections to create an organized but the layout of the photographs and the text create juxsipostion as the content is set in different place creating an idea of going against the rules such as the genre indie/rock.Guttenberg principle Primary optical area: the primary optical area focus on the main the cover star suggesting to the audience that she is the more important and main story in the magazine.strong fallow area: this section focuses on the :this week section telling the audience this is the most important and interesting pages in the magazine that will attract the audience to buy the magazine. weak fallow area: the weak fallow area focuses on the small image of the front cover and what you get in this month’s issues which I don’t want the audience to focus on.terminal area: the terminal area focus on the image of a duo artist suggesting these might be interesting to read to the audience.

photography /mise en scene/rule of thirds/propsin these three images I’ve used of different artist I used portraiture technique to make the magazine look more sophisticated to the audience as two of the artist are giving direct address in the image while the third and smaller image in the bottom right corner the two main subjects are looking in different directions and while one of them is holding a guitar creating juxsipostion.

Special effects any image manipulation you have used on photographyFor these images on my content page I just manipulated the brightness by making image brighter that others to match their character.

For the contents page I used Kerrang to give ideas for layout for my own product as I like for the contents page was structured giving the magazine more of a organized look to it which I want my magazine to be like to make the magazine more sophisticated.

Double pageThe title of the Magazine: On the double page spread of the this magazine the lexis is the artists name using a red colour scheme which a black drop shadow make the lettering look 3D and bolder. This colour scheme was used as is represent the artist’s genre of indie/rock suggesting the artist being edgy, rebellious and outgoing which the genre is known for in the music industry. Design layoutdesign layout: the double page spread is separated into 5 sections to create an organized and sophisticated look to the magazine and represents the idea of the indie rock genre being a sophisticated music genre however the main image and the additional images used contrast that idea the three smaller images of the main subject are quite stupid and not serious representing the idea of the genre being rebellious and fun.house style: the colours used for the double page spread is the continues colour scheme used from the front page and contents page of red, white and black to represent the indie rock genre as the black and red connotations are known for being rebellious and bold which I want the colours to suggest the magazine to be of being bold. The fonts used for the double page spread is the same font used for the front cover and the contents page to show the continues house style theme to make look more sophisticated rather using different fonts for very page.

photography /mise en scene/rule of thirds/props:The images used for the double page spread the digital photography used I focused on lighting and composition to capture various types of images of the main subject pulling funny faces, messing about and looking directly into the camera to create an idea being fun and outgoing.

Special effects any image manipulation you have used on photography:The only editing techniques used in these images are brightness and contrasts and the crop tool on the smaller images on the double page.

This idea for my double page spread was influenced by the music magazine Q as I mostly liked their double page spreads are well organized into sections to give a sophisticated look to the music, which I applied to my product but in my own way.