Improvements from Preliminary task

When comparing the two front covers it is obvious that clear

improvements have been made since the preliminary task. The music

magazine shows better conventions of a magazine as a whole, it has

various cover lines scattered rather that boxed in. The Shot

composition is a lot better for the music magazine and the image

looks more professional with the background Photoshop edited out.

Amateur logo

Genre

related

font

Boxed cover lines

Barcode adds to

professional look

Improvements from Preliminary task

The preliminary task contents page looks highly unprofessional in comparison to

the music magazine contents. All aspects of the magazine conventions are

poor on the preliminary task as it doesn’t include enough eye catching

information to attract the reader to the magazine. A contents should include

page numbers but also include additional information to make the reader read

on. The colours are used better on the music magazine as they don’t clash

against the background and are easy to read. The layout is better on the music

magazine as it looks neat yet include a lot of vital magazine information.

Audience and the way I have addressed the audience

To address the audience I thought about all the conventions of a music magazine and

how I was going to relate it that that gene. I looked at magazine layout, colour schemes, font styles, imagery and mode of address. I tired to look at various indie rock layouts from NME and Q magazine and develop my own

look from the research I carried out on them to make them look like the genre. I used a basic but effective layout for the magazine and I felt it looked like an indie rock magazine. The cover lines were laid out in a relevant format but weren't too spaced and wasn’t too cramped either.The colour schemes I used also addressed the audience due to the symbolism of the colour that were used the red colour that suggests envy and aggro, which is what indie rock music is all about. They also stood out on the foreground and didn’t clash with the background.

I feel that many of the different conventions addressed my audience and the feedback and evaluation on the video I received was very helpful to determine my success on meeting the target audience requirements

Mise-en-Scene The costumes that I used within the images and camera shots portrayed the

indie genre very well. The chino trousers that were used are related to the

genre and the suit jacket also added the effect of making the image look

professional and relevant to the genre.

In the images I used props such as guitars and microphones. The electric guitar

and the style of guitar is related to the music which Is played in that genre and

a guitar is a symbolic object in music in general. Microphone props also gave

the images a sense of performance and loud music which is related to the

genre also.

Additional props that were used were iconic sunglasses which the audience

might copy and relate to that specific artist for example Tinie Tempah and his

iconic sunglasses look.