Evaluation

Kerrang was a huge influence in my production, mainly the design aspect the Title of the magazine stands out the most with the black text and white background creating a strong contrast. The main image unlike the band photo is three individual models cut and edited to resemble a similar main image as Kerrang. The main title for the main image helps identify the main image so that viewers can identify it. This is very necessary as many of the bands I will publisher are newer bands I.E “Future.” There is additional images and text to give the viewer a sneak peak of what is contained in the magazine.

The social class most likely to read my magazines are students, working and lower class. The rock genre is normally represented to be rough, aggressive and loud. The rock genre social class is normally deemed as rebellious and therefore stereotyped.

IPC are the media publisher I want to use as they are the biggest media institute within the UK they publish such magazines as NME, Nuts, Loaded and others. I believe that IPC will publish my magazine as it is similar to normal rock magazine but with a twist to allow newer bands to be promoted. Also i will be doing coverage on the festivals and gigs that is very poplar at the moment.

IPC are the media publisher I want to use as they are the biggest media institute within the UK they publish such magazines as NME, Nuts, Loaded and others. I believe that IPC will publish my magazine as it is similar to normal rock magazine but with a twist to allow newer bands to be promoted. Also i will be doing coverage on the festivals and gigs that is very poplar at the moment.

I have learnt how to do many things of Photoshop such as spot healing, cutting, editing lighting/shadows/contrast also how to arrange different sections to make the product look more professional. Using my blog to keep a personal record and progress allows me to understand and monitor how far I am. Photography I feel was the hardest part of this assignment as you have to take every aspect into consideration such as background, lighting and extra waste within the photo.

To attract the audience I have used many different aspects such as the colour black and red are normally associated with rock. The content includes bands, gigs, festivals, fashion and stars/icons. The images I have used are very raw and rough to create a rock star image to attract the reader. The icons are normally band front men or the most popular band at the currant time. The language used is very informal as rock genre is loud, rebellious and explicit.

The images previously used had reflections in and wasn’t very good. I have learnt how to plan the photo instead of taking random quick unthought-of photos. The identity is consistent throughout the magazine and in my preliminary wasn’t very effective. I have defiantly improved my editing and create more complex editing including spot healing and shadow, lighting and contrast adjustments to suit the image. I feel that i still need to improve my time management as i have tended to leave important section out and having to go back this is what happened in my preliminary task as well.