Young Guns Production

By Lisa Figueira

Planning

Proposal • My magazine will be targeted at all who are into rock of any type, mainly

targeting young adults as they are probably the biggest market audience for rock. It will try to entice the audience with bright, flashy colours and a rocked up and messy layout but will apply to and give of an atmosphere of the rock genre. The magazine is looking to be sold in places like WHSmiths and hoping to spread into music stores like HMV. This magazine will be different firstly as it won’t have the neat straight forward layout that other magazines seem to have but a more wild and interesting one that actual not only talks about rock but looks like rock. Secondly, it’s not only going to be based to slow rock, or hard rock, it going to have aspects form all the different subcultures of rock. It will also hope to show how rock has changed of the years with using bands like Metallica and AC/DC which are older rock bands to bands like Cobra Starship and In Flames.

Draft Layout: Front Cover

Draft layout: Contents Page

Draft Layout: Double Page Spread

Draft fonts

Photos

Stages of manipulation

Similar bands

Cobra Starship Armor For Sleep

Desired look/ style• My desired look would be something not too

neat but also not too rough so that it would not only attract my desired target audience but also draw in people from outside the target audience to at least encourage them to try out a new genre and introduce them not a genre they may not know very well.

Other magazines

Music Magazine Analysis

Distributors • My magazine aims to be sold in places like

WHSmiths and in music shops such as HMV, but also the small music shops that you find in places like Camden.

Actual magazine

Front cover

Contents page

Double page spread

Evaluation

THE ARTISTS AND YOUR AUDIENCE• The social groups that my magazine would

represent would generally be the teens that have there own style and don’t follow any trends.

• The way that my magazine is set up and written it is in a way that my target audience and even those outside my target audience can relate to and feel like they are part of the conversation and the whole magazine. The images have a causal feel to them to make the reader feel like the band include people just like them and so can get into the relative bands.

TARGET AUDIENCE• My target audience would be people who have an interest in any

class of rock, but don’t want to stick within the bounders of the famous rock bands but want to branch out and have a taste of bands that are in there coming out stages.

• By making my magazines genre quite wide spread and including all the sub-genres of rock, the magazine will bring people from diverse backgrounds.

• The demographics of my readers would probably be between the age of 14 to 25 who are still in education from high school to university. Rock lovers tend to be white males, so they would be my main readers but I would try and reach out to more females and other ethnicities, as there are many sub-cultures to rock which I hope to get people interested in with my magazine.

• My readers would cover all types of people from the heavy drug in takers to the new, shy people who just want to explore the world of rock.

SEMIOLOGY• I create a relationship with my audience but

making the language within my magazine relate to the reader and make them feel involved in the text.

• All messages are encoded and they are decoded by the reader in different ways. People who read and follow this genre will decode messages within the magazine differently and will in some way be expecting what is written to be in that type of context, whereas people who are new or have not yet tried out this genre will be decoding the message as they go as it is all new to them.

• Most real magazines target specific types of people such as the heavy metal rock kids whereas my magazine is developed to be suitable not only for one type of genre culture but for people from different cultures who what and insight into what's new and exciting throughout the whole of the rock genre including all its sub-cultures.

• One example of a connotation with in the magazine that would pull people from different genre cultures to my magazine would be things like me front cover picture, with the cover star having a facial expression that not only gives the feel of a rock magazine but also would draw people in from out side the genre due to it not being a harsh facial expression that would only a certain group of people.

• Also the language within the magazine is chatty and would make any reader feel involved in the text and what is being said.

• The layout, is very simple so that people who aren’t used to this type of genre aren't put of and at least will read it even if they don’t like the genre but the colours and themes running throughout the magazine still put out the feel of the type of genre i am basing my magazine around.

CONVENTIONS OF LAYOUT. OF FONT, OF COLOUR, OF LAYOUT, OF LANGUAGE,

OF STYLE, OF POSEYOUR MAGAZINE

CAMERAS COMPUTERS AND PROGRAMMES

• During the process of making my magazine I had to use a number of different programs due to one not being sufficient enough to produce what I wanted, so one of the main things iv learnt would be that you can always achieve what you want and if you can it takes a long time to achieve depending on the result you want in the end.

• The programs I used had a few limitations suck as when removing a background of an image the program would automatically put a white background on so when pasting that image I would be left with a background I didn’t want, so in the end had to settle for using the original image.

• When in come to choice of a program, there is a lot of them. Which makes it harder to decide which one is best for what you need, but the choice is needed as not all programs function in the same way.

• In this decade there is a lot of dependency on digital technology but I don’t believe that its over taking anything as there is always another way to do something without the digital technology but using it just makes things easier.

Conclusion• Possibly one of the main things that iv learnt would be

that its very hard to produce such a task, although that might sound quite obvious I'm sure most people start of this task thinking its going to be easy but so find out that they were wrong. Iv also learnt quite a few new skills through out this task, with using so many different manipulation programs and blogs not to mention all the other basics that we had to use in order to complete this task.

• This task has also show me the importance of form and convention, showing me that putting things in different forms will put out a different message to the reader.