Prelimenary Task

This week for Media I had a go with producing a School Magazine I decided to go with a traditional audience range from Sixth forms to students. As you can see I used red and blue, Harris Beckemham color Scheme. I used a lot of adverts etc linking with the school. As you can see I am still a long way from making a good magazine.

On the other hand I also have a content page linking with this Magazine. It has various articles and the pages directing it to them.

Media Studies Homework

                                       
1. This Magazine(KERRANG!) is a music magazine which focuses on Alternative and Rock music. This Magazine was first published in 1981, initially as a supplement for the newspaper Sounds which focused mainly on the New Wave of British heavy metal. Angus Young from the band AC/DC appeared on the first issue. It was originally owned by United Newspapers who then sold it to EMAP in 1991, and in 2009 it was bought by German Publishers Bauer Media Group.
2. The purpose of this magazine is to bring the latest on Rock bands as well interviews of members of Bands as you can see from the top, there is an interview with a member of the Heavy Metal band Slipknot. It informs Rock enthusiasts of what is going on with bands and give them hints about future projects.
3. This magazine is not specifically aimed at a specific genre but its clear on what target audience this magazine is for, it is aimed at people who take a liking in rock music. The way in which we know that this magazine is not aimed at a specific genre is because it does not display any type of colours it is white, this magazine is targeted at a rock oriented crowd is because the name KERRANG! its the noise an electric guitar makes when playing a power chord.
4. The symbols used in this magazine can affect the target audience in this case this issue of KERRANG! features a member of the highly famous Heavy Metal band Slipknot, by having this member of this band featured as front page it helps to bring in fans of that band to purchase the magazine. It is very effective to have a band on the front cover of your magazine because that is what will draw the attention of people and in this case it can help to bring in more people buying this magazine.

5. The content page gives a lot of information to the reader, it tells the reader other articles they might be interested in such as what sorts of bands are going to be appearing in this edition of KERRANG! and what Rock gigs are going to happen. The contents page makes it very clear on what the genre of this magazine is because the articles mentioned in the contents page refer to the music, the bands shown in the contents page this will obviously reduce the amount of people who will buy this because they will not enjoy this magazine because they do not like the genre.
6. The values being suggested to the reader is that being a rockstar is the way to being famous and world known, this magazine is basically promoting that type of lifestyle and encourages people who would like to be involved in that lifestyle to try make it happen.
7.This magazine is very effective in targeting their audiences because the magazine has exclusive interviews with either the band or a member of a famous rock band, this is a very effective way of getting regular readers because if they happen to be fans of that band or idolise that member of a band then they will pick it up and read it and they will keep coming back if they enjoyed it.
8. I have learnt that in the production of magazine you have to consider a lot of things in order to make your magazine successful because you have to concentrate a lot on the target audience because that is who you want to promote your product to, in order to make your magazine successful you would have to cover the genre you're magazine is going to be about. That means getting exclusive interviews with well known bands or individuals. You will to consider the gender whether it will be towards men or women that means considering what colours will be used in your magazine because it can determine who your magazine will appeal to, also you would have to consider what fonts will be used to go with the theme.
9. The way in which this could help me in producing my own magazine is that i can now know how to promote my magazine to my specific Target audience, and i could use this as a template and this will give me a lot of points in when i produce my own magazine.