Audience

My genre will be indie/rock inspired by already established magazines such as; Kerrang and Q these sorts of magazine are cluttered and busy conveying the overall theme of the music. These magazines usually have medium/close-up images of a band or singer and these images are usually fierce and dominating they also show the power these artists have on society just from their image and what their image entails. The colour scheme within this genre of magazine is predominantly Red-danger (the expression of the music and the danger that it involves),passion (The love for the music the rawness of the lyrics)black-darkness (expressing the grunge like apparel of the band due to the fashion chosen by both the audience and the performer, white purity (this music is as it is they express feelings and emotion straight to the point, emptiness (this gives the audience the impression that the music is there for their own interpretation. The language is very informal giving the audience the impression that its down with the streets and the kids. My music magazine will appeal to group B,C1,C2,D and E in the income and occupation scale ages 16-30, This makes its widely accessible to the community and demonstrates limited segregation. This style of magazine is unlikely to have a secondary audience and therefore the magazine will not have noticeable differences of which you would see on a school magazine such as; consent forms and parents evenings also ways in which the parent can help their child at home. My magazine will focus on all topics which will cover all audiences

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Evaluation

Evaluation My magazine represents the key social group through a range of different techniques one of which is the use of my magazine masthead ‘Each little step…’ the denotation, the connotation of the name imitating the growth of a child within the growth of the school. I also use a range of images which relate to the primary audience (children from Oxhey primary school) my main picture was of a four year old female student sitting at a desk colouring in smiling at the camera this made the magazine more enticing for both the primary audience (students of the school) and the secondary audience (parents and the local community) as this enables the audience to know what the magazine is About and makes it more welcoming to people who may wish to read the magazine as the nurturing image is linked with the nurturing title. On the front cover and the contents page I used the same background image these were foot prints and handprints in pink, blue and yellow which remain in keeping with the overall theme by doing this it results in less confusion for the children and makes it also more consistent for both them and the secondary audience this helps them to psychologically link things from the front cover to the contents page without having to reanalyse. Throughout this preliminary task I have learnt how to use fireworks in order to construct my work in a more professional way suitable for wider media this program helps me to adapt my images, texts and backgrounds so that the audience also develop clearer semiotic views of the masthead etc. Looking back at the progression of ‘Each little step…’ I have learnt that depending on the genre of your magazine the layout is different this has a large effect on the audience when this is done properly this allows the audience to know what income classification the magazine is suitable for and also how to create a more interesting layout to obtain the attention of the younger generation. Overall I feel that this task has helped me to understand what is needed to make my music magazine as successful as possible and obtain the best results I have also learnt from planning my school magazine that its best to come everything simple to start and adapt it with the flow of the rest of your magazine