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Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

My music magazine is aimed at metal fans, metal fans can age between any ages, any social group and any working class. However majority of music magazine readers are around 16 - 25. This is could be due to the fact not many music magazines are aimed at younger age groups,however i believe my music magazine is best suited for young adults, as majority of "concert goers" are around this age range, this makes the magazine and its contents more relatable. Also by having a fan basis within similar age ranges makes the community stronger, as fans will be able to easily communicate and make bonds with one another over potentially similar interests. Fans of metal are stereotyped to be "dark Gothic depressed people", however this stereotype is untrue for a large majority of the fans. However a lot fan's do find release through metal, this can be for numerous reasons that are very personal to the individual. Many metal fans have a variety of taste and my magazine accommodates for that, including all types of metal including niche metal groups that aren't often spoke to or referred to in other magazines. this means that the audience for my magazine would be a variety of different character types, while still having similar music taste. Metal fans although being varied in character and even metal taste, all love BAND MERCHANDISE, this is clothing or other products that represent specific bands or tours, all fans of metal love to represent there band, if not in public at least at there gigs. Band merch always represents the bands theme in color and style.Stereotypical fans of metal are known to be aggressive people that wear dark clothing and are usually drug abusers. They are also know as quite depressing and to listen to music very loudly while head banging. Socially they are looked down upon and seen as outcast's within society. if they were to shop in say Birmingham town centre they would mainly go to a shop called Blue Banana. this is an alternative clothing store, it sells band merch as well as more dark and gothic clothing. Other fans of metal, are seen as socially "normal" with a weird music taste, these types of fans may also hide there love of the style of music to be "socially accepted". However both types of fans like to follow there beloved bands, magazines and general metal news on socially networking on there phones and other devices.

The best phone for my products fans, would be on of two. Either an iPhone or a Samsung, the reason for the two different choices, is dependent on what the fans want from there devices, iPhone's are a good solid phone that enables easy internet accesses, apps, podcast, forums and more. There pretty pricey for what you get though, the cameras aren't great and iPhone's without a case get broken two pieces. However Samsung's have recently increased in price, they are in my opinion the best phone for my audience, this is because it is simple to use, they are a hard wearing phone, they have recently become waterproof this means any beer spilt on your phone at a concert or festival wont ruin it, there cameras are brilliant. they have full access to podcast, apps and forums the same as the iPhone. this means with either phone, you can follow what's going on recently on our webpage.  

However to be sure of my audience, I will hold a interview with some fans I think are appropriate, and resemble what I believe will be the audience of my product.

I will ask questions such as;

• What do you enjoy reading about
• How do you keep up to date with news about your favourite bands
• Where do you shop
• How much would you pay for a music magazine
• what phone do you think best to keep up to date on news

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Final media images

Devolpment of double page spread

My original double page spread didn't give the desired effects so many improvements were made. 

Firstly starting at the top my original double page spread didn't make use of the larges amount of space that could be used to display the title. this was a problem as it didn't draw attention and instantly grab the reader as i wanted it to. So by keeping my house style and color theme i maximized the title by splitting it across the double page spread and using two three different text types too create a professional looking title that included the bands on style of title. By using skew i was able to rotate the text slightly, by doing this it also draws more attention to the title, giving a more desired effect of drawing the audience in.

Secondly by organizing the text into more organised and clear columns the reader is able to quickly skim read or read in depth. By adding in the pull quote in the middle, also draws attention to the main article.

The main image i moved to the left hand side as i thought the article looked better on the right hand side, and then  continuing with the preexisting colors within the picture. I then add a pull quote into the picture.    

Development of my Contents Page

my original (left)

my final (right)

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Development of Front cover

My developed Front cover:

 My initial Front Cover:


My initial front cover i felt lacked information and also lacked something within the photography as my eyes could not be seen even after altering the color levels and shadows of the photograph. the information on the cover was brief and there was a lot of empty space i felt could potentially hold more information for readers, also due to the lack of information a viable selling point that was potentially being missed.


After this thought i added eyes into the photography, by adding inhuman eyes it fitted the genre to a higher degree, making the main image seem inhuman and perhaps something that does fit in society largely representing the metal genre and there audience. This in turn makes the magazine more relatable to readers, I also added more text into the front cover, this adds more information that would be inside the magazine. also filling the space making the front cover feel more used.

content mood board and common conventions

Common conventions:

• Within the contents pages they are usually following a simplistic color scheme e.g. red and white, this makes the contents page easy to read.
• They usually have a single main image of either a band or an individual,  this keeps the audience on the band while still being able to divert their attention where needed.
• The heading of Contents page is always in a bold text that can be easily identified by the audience, making the magazine easier to read, and more relaxed.
• The listing of the contents always has a type of visual lead in or a reversed color scheme.

Drafts for contents page

my first initial ides for my contents page.

my double page spread article

Magazine article mark 1:

Their rise to power shocked audiences around the globe, from underground support acts, to one of the newest faces (well masks) of metal. This is story of how one band rose through the ranks of metal become what they are today, this is the tale of Original Sin.

Original sin initially started by playing at back street bars and underground clubs, starting off with nothing at all but a little bit of cash in hand to buy a couple of rations If they was lucky. They literally grew up on the streets, becoming a group of survivors that fought, bled and stole for each other from a very early age. At the age of fourteen they came across the gruesome art of metal, Rich Cornway also known by his stage name “Tainted Owl” , lead singer of Original sin said “Metal found us and took us in as its own; it was the only thing we had growing up, apart from each other, it moulded us into what we are today”.

Once Original sin was branded with their very own iconic sound and style they really started drawing in crowds for anyone willing to hire them and put up with their pre-show antics. Their drummer Biff Cain also known as “Rabid Dog” stated “before our first show we was so nervous we didn’t know what to do, no one else had ever heard us play, so we just broke out into some manic adrenaline fuelled fight with one another we was so beat when we got on stage Jimmy (there lead guitarist and voted best metal guitar player of the year 2015) passed out, we’ve done it before every show ever since”. Not soon after their first show their name began to spread like wildfire in the underground world, soon they were playing around 20 shows a month sometimes up to nine gigs back to back. The first thing the band invested into was some new modern instruments, amps, microphones and a flat of their own, where they could freely write and allow for their pieces to be warped into master pieces that would soon change metal for ever.

Not long after Original Sin was noticed by multiple record labels, however being the clever street rats they are Original Sin wanted more than just a well-known UK record label, they wanted the same record label as their inspiration, they wanted Roadrunner Records to sign them[1]. However they didn’t know how to go about this at all, so they found someone well known around the club environment and they knew he already had a lot of contacts to help them get on the path to glory. In exchange all he wanted was to join them on their corrupted crusade of metal, which is how Original Sin found their scratch master and DJ “Vitiated Lamb”, whose brother happened to work for a record label within New York as their artist relations. Once signed to their record label they were flown over to New York to produce their first album “Defiled Sanctum”.

“Defiled sanctum” managed to sell just fewer than 90,000 copies in its debut week, from there the sales kept on climbing at an increased rate, until about 6 months following the release. Soon after releasing their debut album and there self-titled EP, Original Sin went on their first ever tour around Europe, when asked about it there bassist and the self-proclaimed father of the group Raymond Rodgers better known as his stage name “Desolate Pig” wished to share his bloody adventure with us.

“we was still just kids at the time and we had so much commotion going on around us we didn’t know what to do, in a matter of months we had gone from some grotty underground support acts without a pot to piss in, to being well on our way to becoming headliners at some of the biggest venues all around Europe. In the hysteria prior to the actual tour I didn’t realise what a sensation we had become until our lead guitarist Ed and his twin rhythm guitarist joey (also known as the malformed rats) were walking down the road then three girls scream and ran up to them, the girls asked if they was Ed and Joey from Original Sin when they said yes two of the girls just passed out, like “boof” out cold. When they told me I realised that we was actually somebody’s now not just five scumbags who didn’t like the right music so they couldn’t be cool. The first thing I remember about the tour was the drugs and the girls. That’s all I remember actually now that I think about it. Our first show was in Leeds at the First Direct Arena, and I remember we was setting up and I looked out and it was just so different we was used to tight little death boxes with beer, blood and sweat stains all on the floor, roof and walls. I felt like a gladiator in the coliseum, and then I had a panic attack and passed out. When I woke up it was almost time to go on I remember that pre show ritual was the most violent pre show ritual we had ever done, I was pissing out blood from under my mask I didn’t know where form but I could taste it. Then we went on stage, the crowd were savage they beat each other senseless they tried to clamber over barriers and security guards to get onto stage, it was beautiful. Every night after was the same beautiful uncontrolled legal chaos, oh and every place we went there was after show parties with more drugs and more booze than the last. Anarchy, that’s the best word to describe what it was, pure anarchy.”

Following the tour the band had to overcome a grievous wound in the form of a passing college and brother, joey his twin Ed spoke to us about the loss, “I never expected it to end, any of it, any of us. When joey died it was a huge loss to the entire band and it was tough, really tough, but he wasn’t just my brother he was a brother to all of us, we wept and grieved for him as one, as a family, you know something’s change and we all have to move on eventually. But some things always stay the same no matter what, to original sin Joey was our rhythm guitarist. That’s why we could never replace him, that’s why it’s just us now. You know Joey used to say this crowd would be the death of him, with the stunts he pulled that tour I wouldn’t have been surprised, he used to crowd surf, mosh pit you name it he did it, with them. He was one of them, he was the closest thing they had to being truly equals and they felt the loss to, we received so many supportive messages, fan art, letters people even sent us flowers. It was a tough loss for the whole family of Original Sin, but it made us, it just pulled us so close to the fans, it was the first time we really truly felt embraced in such a way, like everyone said It, it really felt like the fans wanted to help and they was really there for us, emotionally and physically. I remember our first standalone concert without joey was so surreal. We all came on stage and we started to play but, the crowd didn’t react how they normally would. It was like they felt sorry for us and I didn’t realise why until I noticed Rich, he wasn’t singing he was just standing there looking out at the crowd; we all stood there in the arena in this silent almost comfortable numbness for about twenty minutes. It was like we was all letting him go in that moment together as one, as a family”.

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[1] Roadrunner Records is a major Dutch record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands. It is a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City, Roadrunner Records have also produced multiple albums for bands such as Slipknot and Trivium and one of the most successful metal record labels of its time.

Main cover image

Kerning and it's uses.

Kerning or mortising is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters, this is due to make specified text take up more or less space.

This can also add effects to the words drawing attention to them, or making specific words/phrases less noticeable than other text.

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