Evaluation Question 2

Representation

Below, you can see my double page spread, the image in particular was inspired by an image I found in a double page spread from a Kerrang magazine (as seen below). I had attempted to organise the members of my makeshift band into coming to a local park on an early foggy morning, in an attempt to recreate the same image, but due to lack of availability this was not possible. Instead, I had decided to use other elements of the image in the creation of my own, one important element featured in Kerrang's image was the blank look on the band member's faces. This works well with the casual posture, once again is similar to Kerrang's image. A notable difference between the two, is the fact that Kerrang's camera angle is much lower than my own, this was not intentional, looking at the two images in comparison, I believe using a lower camera angle in my own image may have worked better, however I also had to be wary of the background, as the room had a relatively low ceiling, meaning that part of the image may not be plain white wall.

The above image is my double page spread, while below is my inspiration (Kerrang)

In general, my audience would be thought of as wearing dark (most likely black) clothing, and so I had instructed all of my models to wear as dark as possible clothing in the image. I wanted to back up the stereotype of metal listeners in my magazine, in a positive light. I would have preferred one of my models to also have a piercing, but the fact that none of them did was not a big issue.

Advertising
When regarding advertising within my magazine, I wanted to be mid-way between pro-consumerist and anti-consumerist. The products advertised within my magazine would be very specific to my audience, and this is why I want some, but not many adverts within the magazine, as there is not a large range of products that would tempt my potential audience, other than band merchandise. The adverts featured in my magazine would be mostly if not all band merchandise items, such as branded hoodies, t-shirts and sweatbands, exceptions for advertising may be instruments or similar items.