Final Production

Evaluation: Question 1

Media evaluation question 1

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Evaluation: Question 2

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The links below are clothing lines that would mostly represent the style of my target audience:


http://store.iheartdropdead.com/ 
http://www.mamstore.co.uk/Rock/index.html

Evaluation: Question 3

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

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Media evaluation question 4

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The videos below are songs from bands that my character profiles like. This is the type of music that my target audience listen to.

Evaluation: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Front Cover


Evaluation Question 5: Front Cover
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Contents Page

Evaluation Question 5: Contents Page
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Double Page Spread

Evaluation Question 5: Double Page Spread
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Evaluation: Question 6

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

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Evaluation: Question 7

Audience Feedback

Audience feedback!!!!

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Production

This lesson, I took screen grabs of all three of my production work and showed a step-by-step plan of how I created my front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Screen grabs front cover

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Below is the final product of my front cover.

Screen grabs contents page

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Below is the final product of my contents page.

Screen grabs double page spread

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Below is the final product of my double page spread.

Rough Layouts of DPS

Below are rough layouts of the front cover, contents page and double page spread of my music magazine. This is to give me a basic idea of what I want my final product to look like.


This is the rough layout of my front cover.

This is the rough layout of my contents page.

This is the rough layout of my double page spread.

Production: Protographs & Article

Below are two slideshows which consist of the photos I took for my production work. I have also labelled which images I chose to use for my final production.
Media photos!!!

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Media photos part 2

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For my Double Page Spread, I created a word document for my article before I added it to my working product, This was so I could proof read and make changes until I was happy with it.

Title: Raising HOPE

The Blackout’s vocalists Sean Smith and Gavin Butler spoke to Amplify about the hurdles the band faced while working on their forthcoming third album Hope. After their past two albums being a total flop and the entire band about to buckle under the weight of struggle and self doubt; the six-piece have finally found their feet and are getting ready to embark on their biggest tour to date.

Sean reveals that when the album – which was funded by a successful Pledge Music campaign, where fans made financial contributions in return for exclusive merchandise and unique days out with the band – is finally released, the two year gap between records has paved the way for a collection of darker and more mature songs, inspired by fractured relationships caused by life in a touring rock band.

“The album title is a bit of a double entendre” says Sean. “There’s the wide-eyed hope and the negative, almost desperate meaning of the word. The word hope appears a lot in the lyrics. “It’s a little darker than The Best In Town (The Blackout’s second album),” he adds. “Since we released that album, we’ve gone through lots of things that have shaped us. It’s about our relationships and us growing up”.

The Welsh sextet has grown into themselves on their impressive third album. Of course, it doesn’t much matter how many obstacles a band happens to have overcome if the album they’ve battles to create isn’t worth the effort. But with Hope, the South Wales’ valley’s most relentless act has managed to create something that often sparkles with class and individualism. The root of the album’s success is not merely strong songs, but songs that demonstrate the band’s talents to best effect. This is a creation made up of fabulous riffs, of knockout choruses and of songs that by turn are heavier than anything the band has produced before.

“I love all of the songs on the album,” says Gavin. “Like a proud father but I think a standout song for me personally, where everyone stepped up and tried something different was The Storm, the closing track of the album. It really paid off and I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they hear it.” So the future is looking rosy for the Welsh rockers, but Sean admits they’ve got one particular ambition they’d like to fulfil in the next 12 months...

“We basically want to take over the world” he admits. “There’ve been times when we’ve joked about that, but that is literally what we want. We can’t wait to release Hope and just tour the shit out of it. The songs sound absolutely massive we can’t wait for everyone to hear them.”

Article Research

This lesson, I researched the band that I was going to write about for my double page spread. The band I am writing about is The Blackout. Below are the links I used to research.


www.myspace.com/theblackout

www.theblackout.net/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackout_(band)

www.facebook.com/theblackoutband

www.theblackout.co.uk/

www.rocksound.tv/features/article/the-blackout

Planning Production

Planning Production

Front cover

The front cover main article is about the band Purple Science Hoodie: The Future of British Rock. The main image is of a band member with a purple hoodie and a guitar. The background for the image will be in a science lab.

Cover lines for front cover
-Purple Science Hoodie: The Future of British Rock
- The Amplify Tour! Who’s playing?
- Enter Shikari: On their biggest tour yet!
- Led Zeppelin – Everything you need to know
- Greatest Punk tracks EVER
- Win Rob Zombie’s coffin shaped guitar

Text for contents page

It will have both feature articles and regular content with small piece of information on what the article is about. I will also have a small caption under the images I will use.

Images for contents page

I shall use photos I have taken at previous gigs. The main image will be of No Lights At Lockdown. My smaller images will be from gigs such as Paramore, We The Kings, Attack! Attack! And Bullet For My Valentine. All picture have been taken by myself.

Article for double page spread

The article is about Welsh band, The Blackout. It talks about their latest forthcoming album “Hope” and also talks about the struggle the band had to make it and also an album review.

Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title:  AMPLIFY  

Positioning Statement: Plug into the music

Frequency Of Publication: Monthly

Price: £3.75

Rationale: The approach of the magazine is written by music experts, including band members themselves. It will include interviews and articles from popular rock bands and also focus on a lot of live performances and reviews.

Style: It will be informal and very humorous, not being afraid to make comments that you wouldn’t find in your average magazine. The magazine will also contains simple vocabulary, relatively short paragraphs and musical slang terms so the audience can relate.

Images will be the dominant feature of layouts.

Regular content

- Gig reviews

- Introducing new acts

- Album reviews

- Latest news

- Inside the mind of...

- Stories from the moshpits

- Feedback from fans

- Tracks of the month

- What are YOU listening to?

- The Ultimate Gig Guide

- Win Gig Tickets

- The AMPLIFY Quiz!

Feature Articles

- Purple Science Hoodie! The Future Of British Rock

- MCR’s Gerard Way Speaks Out

- Win Rob Zombie’s Coffin shaped guitar

- Metallica’s Greatest Tour Yet

- Greatest Rock Tracks EVER!

- Matt Tuck’s Guitar Gods

- Drum like Joey Jordison

- The Amplify Tour! Who’s playing?

- Bring Me the Horizon talk about their new album

-  AC/DC Still Proving They Have Big Balls

- Enter Shikari: On their biggest tour yet

- Your questions answered by Bowling for Soup

- The Blackout takes over their home territory

- System of a Down’s Top 20 moshpit Tracks

- 30 Seconds to Mars’s times up?

- Led Zeppelin: Everything you need to know

- A7X vs KsE – Who will win in a metal battle?

- All Time Low on tour again

- The Calling make a comeback!

- Skindred’s Benji Webbe has the final word.

- No Lights At Lockdown On Their Latest Album

House Style: Lucida Fax

Cover lines: Berlin Sans FB Demi and Berlin Sans FB

Headlines: Berlin Sans 11pt

Standfirst: Berlin Sans 14pt

Captions: Berlin Sans 10pt

Feature first paragraph: drop capital Arial Narrow, 5 lines deep, first two words in capitals

News first paragraph: First two words in bold capitals

Body Text: Arial Narrow 14pt

Colour Scheme: Purple, Black, Grey

Audience Research

Below is a slideshare of the results from my questionnaire that I made to find out what audience I am aiming my magazine at and what would make them buy my magazine:Presentation1

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Questionnaire

In this lesson, I created a questionnaire for audience research, so I knew exactly what my audience wanted in the magazine. This is a screen grab of my music magazine questionnaire for my audience:

Analysis Of Double Page Spread Articles

In this lesson I used prezi to analyse a professional Double Page Spread.

Double Page Spread Analysis on Prezi

Analysis Of Professional Contents Pages

This lesson we used Prezi to analyse professional contents pages.

Copy of Analysis Of Professional Contents Page on Prezi

Analysis Of Profession Magazine Front Covers

Analysis Of Professional Magazine From Covers

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