Zahra Sullivan AS Media

Unfortunately my video's also wouldn't upload so this is it all. There were some interviews of my peers and me talking to the camera about what went wrong and what could have been better and peoples personal opinions.

Question 7

Question 6

For the technological side of this I used a Nikon camera and for editing I used PaintShopPro along with some editing sites on the Internet for example http://www.picmonkey.com/ and http://www.befunky.com/ so this gave me a range of effects and touching up devices. Then for the layout I used publisher to help me make sure I have the rule of thirds.

Editing isn't new to me really, I used to enjoy editing but I had absolutely no idea how to make a picture look vintage or old in any way without it looking cheesy. So I did some research on what other people suggested and started to reduce the saturation and try lots of things out, although it reached a point where I didn't want to mess up or lose something which may have looked more vintage, so I saved every version...

Publisher is new to me, I've never needed to use it so I found it difficult at points when trying to get rid of the grids and realising that my computer didn't have the right fonts was quite confusing.

No guidelines = happy :D
Obviously I had more serious issues like the fact that I'd never used a decent camera before and so when my mum lent me hers I stood there for ages with the lens cap on saying 'Why isn't this working' so things like that time time to get the hang of as well as things like slideshare, I'd never used that so it scared me but I made it through as I did eventually with my issues with publisher and editing.

Question 5

The bold and bright image, I made the rabbit more noticeable by making him slightly more brown through editing. Big, bold coloured title - only bold colour used. Intriguing the audience with an unknown band while drawing them in more to find out about already famous bands with sell lines. Making certain words more bold using yellow or white. Used a colour pattern - kept a consistent colour for the band name and sticking to mainly black and whit fonts with the occasional pale blue font. I tried many different fonts...
POLLUTION This was my final font as it looked like the writing of an 80's film which gives the connotation and reference of the 80's

POLLUTION

POLLUTION Too death metal

POLLUTION High school musical

POLLUTION - bold but boring

Consistency:
Grey/blue background

Slight adaptions to title every time and background – be original not famous

Weird lighting, either loads of light to be very bright all over or lots of lights placed to make the person look dark or the surroundings look dark as an emphasis

Audience Profile - Question 4

Gender: Female

Age: 16-25

Favourite bands: Angels and Airwaves, Good Charlotte, Biffy Clyro, You Me At Six, Taking Back Sunday, Greenday, etc.

Favourite drink: Rockstar or Relentless

Favourite car: Lamborghini

Favourite place: Most likely america as that's where rock originates really with some British aspects

Favourite colour: Reds, purples, blacks.

What she wears: Like above, leather jacket, ripped jeans or holed tights, high healed boots or docs, etc.

Passions: Guitar

Favourite films: Anything action, for example, fast and furious, or superhero films.

Body type: Slender typically

Smoke? Typically

Drink? Typically

This is what you might expect to be the audience and although it may be right in a sense of people who listen to that music may be that person but in reality teens don't tend to buy magazines any more figures show that it is rather unlikely for a female teen to buy any music magazine really, the only actually high female percentage who buy magazines are the ones who are quite young and buy pop magazines.

Gender: Male
Age: 35-60
Favourite bands: Anything rock or from their kind of time, it can actually be rather varied, but still quite similar to the 'expected audience'
Favourite drink: Some form of beer or maybe even tea.
Favourite place: Could still be american but this person has probably given up any ideas of going there again or at all and is quite settled.
Favourite colour: Blacks, browns, reds, purples.
What he wears: Mainly black, would try to wear jeans or something 'new' like skinny jeans but most of the time sticks to trousers and a t-shirt or shirt. Also does wear leather jacket.
Passions: An instrument like guitar, bass or drums, possibly used to sing.
Favourite films: Anything action once again.
Smoke? Possibly
Drink? At the weekends but not excessively

This is what actually IS the audience, it turned out that someone as old and miserable looking as this is actually the main buyer of music magazines. Personally I'm not entirely sure why this is, it could be because they need a time fill and want to keep up with things and have the money, where as teens have plenty to do, use the internet to find out about bands and don't have money, resulting in fewer teens buying them.

But this is why I tried to make my magazine more vintage, seeing as middle aged men tend to like the magazines and because of their time of rock then it'd make more sense to set it more how they'd like by making it look like their time of rock and alternative rock. But by also adding some of the things I have such as a less sexualised and animalistic view on women it should appeal to more women and the new upcoming bands instead of constantly the already famous might appeal to teens more.

Question 2

The model is female, young - teen, sexualised with the animal, very attractive, wears dark and leather has dark hair, is slim. This could show that the audience are like her, want to look like her or want to look at her. People seem to say that they want more 'real' models but do we really? I think people maybe want something that may appear slightly more real but still something nice to look at.