My magazine aims to represent fans of rock music, specifically metalcore, post-hardcore, and metal genres. It uses conventions from Kerrang!, a popular rock music magazine, such as a masthead stretching across the front cover and including free posters. The target audience is people who enjoy rock music regardless of age, as the magazine avoids explicit content. The dark color scheme and inclusion of a well-known band like Enter Shikari are intended to attract rock music fans. The creator learned important Photoshop and editing skills through developing the magazine, allowing them to professionally design the final product.

2. In what ways does your media product use,
My Magazines Masthead develop or challenge forms and conventions Kerrang! Free Posters
of real media products?
When planning my magazine,
I planned it to look similar to
Kerrang! magazines, as Kerrang!
Kerrang! Masthead Is a rock magazine like mine, so a
lot of the thing in my magazine
Are similar to what you will find in A My Free Posters
Kerrang magazine. For example, My
magazine has free posters, like Kerrang!,
also the masthead of my Magazine
stretches right across the
Top of my front cover, just like in
Kerrang!

3. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
The institution
that most likely The main reason for this is because
would distribute Bauer Media Group publishes a few
my magazine Magazines like mine. For example Kerrang!
would Bauer which specialises in rock music,
Media Group. like my magazine.

4. Who would be the audience of your
My magazine is a rock media product?
magazine, so the
target audience is,
people who like rock
music (specifically
metal, I wouldn’t give it a specific age
post-hardcore, range
metalcore etc.) as people of all ages can like rock
Type of Music/bands:
music
Metalcore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQBebfEXpc And there isn’t any bad language
Post–Hardcore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6ofM315g8 or any graphical
Metal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRNdveLnJI
Images which aren’t suitable for
young people.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Because my audience are
people who like rock music, I
use dark colours in most of
the magazine to attract them
as that is what most rock
magazines are like.
As I used a quite well known band
(Enter Shikari), that will attract people
Who have heard of them and will make them
Want to buy it and read the article.

6. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
Preliminary Cover When I made my preliminary cover and contents,
I have no clue how to use Photoshop properly, so Preliminary Contents
A lot of the editing was very unprofessional.
Also the way it was set out was amateur. An
Example is on the cover where it is hard to tell
what
The main sell-line is. My main magazine was a
huge
Improvement, it was much more organised, the
editing
Was much sharper and it looked a lot more
professional.

7. What have you learned about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
Before I started making my magazine, I have absolutely
No idea how to use Photoshop, and had to keep asking
My friends, and Gary for help with almost everything, but by
The end of making my magazine I can now say I can use
Photoshop fairly well. Also before making my magazine
I didn’t know how to edit pictures, and could barely use a
Camera, but from doing the preliminary before the main
Magazine, I found it pretty easy to use the camera.

8. How does your media product represent
Particular social groups?
The main social group my magazine represents are emos as my magazine
Has many bands which are classes as emo bands and that emos listen to.
My magazine also represents emos with the use of dark colours, which
Are also seen in magazines like Kerrang! And Metalhammer.