Magazine Evaluation - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Magazine Evaluation - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Target Audience Research

I made a Power Point to collect together the feedback I received from my peers on if my magazine fits the genre and target audience that it was supposed to.

Double Page Article

This is the article that I wrote for the double page:

Lead singer of JUSTICE, The Big O,  talks about  their  new

record and how their life changed for the worse.

His new album with the band ‘Justice’  has pleased both critics and fans but   this comes with a price, The Big O talks to us after their successful breakthrough album was released just a week ago.

“I wasn't prepared for this” the  artist said, “I used to think that becoming famous would create a  better life for me but that wasn't the case”. He recently celebrated their debut album getting to the number one spot. 
‘The 19/20 Experience’  is the artist’s first and still debates whether his next project will too.

“I’ve been working on the album for a couple of years now ever
since my dad got me my first guitar. After we finished our fourth single we wanted to switch up the tone of the music and go for a slightly more alternative feel. I’ve loved bands like phoenix and two door cinema club and wanted to recreate the feel of their songs, this was a challenge”. 

The Big O says he was unhappy with early demos that used a lot of electronic equipment, feeling like they were going into a whole new genre. “We experimented with  keyboards and synthesizers but was leaning to a daft punk/Daniel Marshall sound which we didn't aim for.

“I didn't expect the overwhelming  reception we got for the album, we were unsure if this was what we wanted as our first piece of work but it seems to have been worth it”. The band has been together for 2 years now, at first performing small gigs for family and friends until moving on to larger venues
at small festivals. It’s been a shock for the trio, their average audience before was mostly made of family members, and now thousands.


The band are aiming to release their next album in at least 5 years.
“We worked super hard on this project, it was really challenging and the band had some problems on the way but we are proud of the overall result. We just
want to play some shows and then take a short break before getting back into it.”

“Our influences were  old  school bands and artists such as The Smiths, Rolling Stones, The Who and a hint of David Bowie.  Although we didn’t try to directly copy their styles, we tried to use aspects of their
most well known songs and blend them together to create the best sound possible".The Big O has only been the lead singer for the past year of the band’s 3 year history but has already caused a great impact on their music
and possibly the reason for their breakthrough.

“We got our name from the experiences we had during the forming of the band. Gareth, our lead bassist , was arrested for criminal damage shortly after planning to form as a group. He was eventually released after a few months 
after the court realising they had no evidence against him as he was not the one who smashed the car window, he got his justice so we decided to call the band that in a kind of tribute.”

The band has made claims in the past that they only plan to be a group for at most 10 years, they now say this is not the case. “we made those claims at early stages of our career and we do regret them. as long as people still want  us to make music  we will continue to be in the studio, we love what we do and don’t want to stop any time soon, especially not 10 years”.

Justice’s first UK tour starts 10th July this year, with their first dates in the 02, London.

Final Designs

Front page

Contents Page

Double Page

Computer Draft - Contents Page

This is my final computer draft. This is the page that designed with the most influence from other magazines, mainly the Rolling Stones magazines. I wanted to keep as much information of the pages of the magazine, while keeping it still attractive to look at so the young reader's wouldn't get bored.

The "Exclusive Interview" banner on the top left image is also used in the Rolling Stones magazine, I used it because it was eye catching and smart design to label an image.

In order to improve it I'll need change some of the fonts I used, the title of the page (very top left) being one of them. I should change this to a font used in the Front Page as it currently looks a bit out of place. I should also change the line "In this issue of Music for the Masses" to another font I used before as I need to make the page less formal.

Time Plan

This is the plan I used to organise the time I spent on my magazine. It includes a table for the days of each school week I'll spend on creating or updating certain aspects of the project. Also the deadlines I set myself which I wanted to meet with parts of the project.