4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

My audience is 16 to 25 year olds, its aimed more towards males than it is females but some females will fined it appealing. It’s also

Aimed at people who are into hard rock/ heavy metal; such as black label society, the wild hearts and Metallica. It’s also aimed at people people who love going to live music events. The people where baggie jeans, denim jackets and baggie t-shirts that usually have a band on, this is how they are shown on the front of my magazine, Chris is wearing baggie jeans and a kiss t-shirts. 

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

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

An institution is a company that distributes a product for the audience’s consumption of that product. The sort of institution to distribute my music magazine would be IPC media or Bauer media; I think it would be these two because they’re two of the biggest media institutions in Europe. But they wouldn’t distribute them straight to the audiences; they would distribute them to the likes of WHSmith. WHSmith would then make it available for the audiences to get hold of my music magazine. I think IPC media are more likely to be the institution to distribute my music magazine over Bauer media, I think this because Bauer media already do kerrang!, mojo and Q magazine. Where as IPC media only do one music magazine which is NME.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents 16 to 25 year olds, and it represents them in a rebellious way. It represents a rebellious social group because that’s the sort of people in to heavy metal, hard rock and punk. My product represents them in a dark way because most of the bands music is dark and that’s what this social group is into, they care how people look at them and that is one of the things that make them different to other social groups. The is a lot of people in this social group you would never guess because you don’t have to wear the uniform to be into the music and like the magazines.

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My final product has used basic conventions of a magazine and challenged some conventions. On my front cover I have mainly used basic conventions such as, masthead, coversine’s, promotion, barcode and price. I researched magazines and noticed that theses are the conventions mainly used on a front cover. When I did my research I took a look at my genre magazines (hard rock/ metal) such as kerrang! And metal hammer. I challenged the convention of how to display the free posters on my magazine, I found one kerrang magazine that display it the same but it stills challenges the conventions. But I haven’t challenged most of the conventions; I have just used them normally such as barcode +price, masthead, main image and tagline.

First of all I created my masthead “RHP” which stands for Rock In A Hard Place, I placed it going across the top of my magazine because it’s the conventional way to display it. The name of my magazine links in with the genre of my magazine. For my main image I used a medium close up which is very commonly used, my image gives off my genre because Chris (the man in my image) it does this because Chris has dread locks and he has tattoos which is similar to my audience, also he is dressed like my audience would dress such as band t-shirt and baggie jeans.

progression of my double page spread

This is my double page spread so far. I know i need to add more writing to it because its just not enough writing for a double page spread. I also need to fill in the big gap with something like who the person is that interviewed  Chris.

convention for posters

This is the style i used to display the posters on my music magazine, its an unusual way to display the posters but i followed the conventions of kerrang! magazine.