Transcript of Zoe Nightingale. My magazine will be about music, focused on the type of people who like...
- Slide 1
- Zoe Nightingale
- Slide 2
- Slide 3
- My magazine will be about music, focused on the type of people
who like specifically heavy metal music. The cover will be in a
sort of mythical Cradle of Filth or gothic Lolita style. My target
audience is people from ages of around 16 30 who are into heavy
metal music and the gothic scene. It would be distributed at some
larger bookshop chains, and around places like Camden, where the
people its aimed at are likely to gather, and at music shops. It
would also be given out at concerts of specific genres of
music.
- Slide 4
- SignsConnotations DarkNight, shadows, uncertainty,
unconventional, tortured soul StubbleBusy, up all night, rough,
hardcore LeatherConvention of metal, biker, tough FlamePyromaniac,
destruction, danger RailingsImprisoned, criminal, trapped Angel
wing earringsJuxtaposition holy, righteous, good BlackGothic, evil,
mourning, death, Single GloveOriginal, non-conformist, uncaring
GreyBoring, the same, unoriginal, depression
- Slide 5
- Slide 6
- D imensional S cream
- Slide 7
- Slide 8
- Slide 9
- Slide 10
- Slide 11
- I need a Serif font for a more professional look to the
interview. I chose Times New Roman. (The red one.) I think its the
most commonly used one. It looks quite common and easy to
read.
- Slide 12
- Slide 13
- Slide 14
- Slide 15
- LHOOQ is a reference to Duchamp, a French artist. He recreated
the Mona Lisa but wrote LHOOQ. If read in French it means she has a
hot ass or there is fire down below. Here it represents
ever-present sexual urges, prominent in metal music, and the idea
of making a mockery of a work of art.
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Slide 19
- Slide 20
- Slide 21
- Slide 22
- Rammstein Arch Enemy Lamb of God Cradle of Filth
- Slide 23
- My target audience would be the people who read metal
magazines, attend heavy metal concerts and visit specialist shops
that would be likely to sell specialist metal magazines. They would
be around the age of 16 30. The people featured inside the magazine
and on the front cover would be of a similar age. There is no
specific target gender.
- Slide 24
- I want my magazine to be representative of non- conformity, and
yet still conform to the heavy metal magazine conventions like an
overwhelmingly dark layout and unimpressed expressions. To be
non-conformist I will include a misspelling in the title Skream,
and also have gritty, unhappy models. This goes against normal
lifestyle and womens magazine conventions. However, to submit to a
metal stereotype, I will include aggressive and apathetic poses,
black clothes and heavy makeup (on the boys as well), and the
ordinary conventions of colour and layout.
- Slide 25
- Slide 26
- Front cover
- Slide 27
- Contents
- Slide 28
- Double page spread
- Slide 29
- Slide 30
- I was successful in my attempt to connect with my audience
through my pictures because I transformed a perfectly respectable
young lady into a guitar hero in a death metal band. As metal is
mainly a teenage sub-culture type of music, I have used white
teenagers. My audience would be around the ages of 14-21, probably
mostly male. Demographically they are not that diverse. Except the
pictures I took turned out to be less heavy metal than I had hoped.
This was fixed as I manipulated the images to be more contrasting,
dark and brooding. I think the outcome was good.
- Slide 31
- This pose is typical of a metal magazine. Her head is tilted at
an angle that seems a little arrogant and even slightly aggressive.
Her hands are in her pockets which signifies that she is casual and
yet this also comes across as a little bit obnoxious. It seems
especially teen-like.
- Slide 32
- My magazine title is unconventional as it is spelt wrong. This
unconventional misspelling will serve the purpose of making people
wonder why I have used a K instead of a C. It is also
rule-breaking. Also, the name of my band includes the word scream,
and I wanted to avoid repetition without having to change too much
of my planning. Goes with convention of heavy metal as they are
largely associated with screaming. I think I was successful in
connecting with my audience through the title.
- Slide 33
- I chose this because it goes with the title skream in that they
are both to do with voices. The title along with the slogan makes
the magazine seem like the voice of the people who read it, giving
the magazine a more overall interactivity and making it more
relatable to the audience. It also goes with the convention of
heavy metal, as they are associated with screaming, and it gives
the impression that if they wanted to say something, they would
scream it. Unlike codes, however, is the word masses, which could
be seen as a negative view of its own audience.
- Slide 34
- The gets personal makes it seem to the audience more like they
will get a chance to get to know the band personally inside the
magazine. It also entices potential readers as they will want to
know the bands secrets. The name of the band in big red letters on
the front cover makes it seem urgent and important. Red also
connotes an order to stop, or that there is danger nearby.
- Slide 35
- I have used this pose because its casual, uncaring and
indifferent while still maintaining a cool look. The hood being up
could show a merge of conventions, as teenagers with hoods up are
associated with violence. There is an editorial included in my
contents page. This serves to connect more with the audience as it
gives it some first person pronouns and opinion. I know I am, while
also giving information about the rest of the magazine.
- Slide 36
- The colour scheme of my double page spread is different shades
of grey, which connotes depression, another aspect of metal music.
This, however, contrasts with the essentially upbeat content. This
photos pose is again casual and ordinary, but the facial expression
is sad and unkempt. The mouth is turned down and the eyes are
darkened and look like they are half-shut. This again relates back
to the heavy metal connotations of depression and anguish.
- Slide 37
- I chose this quotation to draw attention to because its unusual
for a band to say this about their own song. They are essentially
insulting their fans. This is working against the conventions of a
magazine and of a band. I thought that if a reader were to glance
at the page, this quotation would draw their attention so that they
read the rest of the text.
- Slide 38
- I chose this photo because I like the way the girl in the
middle takes up as much space as she can, despite being smaller
than the boys. It shows that she is tough enough to deal with being
in a heavy metal band, which can be seen as a profession for men,
and a place for misogyny. I manipulated it so that the background
is blurred and grey, because it goes with the spread scheme and it
also takes the attention away from the leaves and bright green
grass. I think I was fairly successful through my chosen photos in
sticking to a traditional metal theme. Here I tried to make my
models come across as trapped, except it seems that they are
trapped outside in a grey, boring world. One of the things metal
represents is breaking free of norms. I believe I got this message
across well through my use of images.
- Slide 39
- This was my preliminary task a school magazine. There are a
couple of things wrong with my school magazine; the picture is
hovering and there are a lot of gaps. There is even a white space
behind one of the images. However, I do like the way the photo has
been manipulated. I also went by conventions successfully in that I
used a whimsical font for the title, and the girl on the front
cover is smiling and holding her glasses, which are large and thick
to connote the unpopular side of academia. This representation
should connect with my audience of students who enjoy reading and
writing, who were the people I intended the magazine for.
- Slide 40
- I believe my knowledge of magazine layouts and colour schemes
has greatly improved since the beginning of this task. There are
too many spaces here. I could have filled them with text and
pictures. In my metal magazine there are not really any spaces at
all. There is a good background in this magazine. In the other one
I just had one colour, while in this one there is a complex
background that goes with both the conventions and with the colour
schemes of the girl.