Rock vs Streez Sound

In todays lesson the group and I learnt the key features of a magazine cover and the importance that these features make towards the reader. Here are a few distinctive features in a magazine: The Masthead- The title of a magazine always justified at the right or spanning the entire width of the entire width of the magazine. Strapline - A subheading used by some magazines and The Main cover image - The main image used on a magazine usually looking straight at the camera. Each group had a task to look at a cover of magazine and then write and discuss the features of it. The magazine that my group had to analyse was titled 'Rock Sound', Rock sound is a rock music magazine targetted at goths, emos and all other young people interested in the heavy rock sound. We learnt the target audience by looking at the main cover image which is a man i would say in his twenties holding a guitar, giving the impression that he is about to smash it. His dark clothing, long black hair and large gothic tattoos gave me the idea that the person that reads this magazine would relate to him and those people that relate to him make our target audience. Me and my group learnt a lot by looking at the masthead as the style that it is written in not only tells us more about the music but defines more about the image used. The word Rock sound has been written in bold capital letters and each of these letters appear to have cracks formed on them. Me and my group discovered that this could signify the music, as the cracks in the letters could sybolise the fact that the music is so hard like rocks that just as rocks have cracks in them the lettering should aslo have this to justify the music. I also feel that the cracks in the lettering could imply that the man in the image has caused them, as i have said above he appears to be smashing his guitar and this could have caused the cracks.
Based on the magazine cover that we had been given the group and i were then given a sheet with questions about the target audience that we had to answer. The questions included What do they drink? What gender are they? & What music do they like?. These questions enabled the group to get a deeper look at the target audience and to identify what key features they have that makes this magazine appeal to them.
We were then given our final task which was to think and plan our own magazine cover focusing on the music that we where going to use and the two images that we are planning on shooting in the following lesson. The group decided that the best music genre that would be best for our magazine to be based on would be grime. We made this decision as not only do the majority of the group listen to this type of music but we had ideas of what the image would be and the stlye it is shot in. We decided that our magazine would be titled 'streez sound',we also decided that we would shoot two images, one of Omarr on his own located in a corridor at the college we attend, we planned the second image to be of me and Ufuk located outside of the college. It was important that the two images showed to different mise-en scene as the group wanted to show variation on the two issues of the magazine which also signifies that the genre of music that we decided to use has a wide range of stlyes and people within the one type of music. It is also important that in both of the images the model is wearing headphones and listening to music as it also adds the effect of what the magazine is based on.
In the next lesson we hope to complete shooting the images and be closer to completing our magazine.