Finished Double Page Spread
Monday, 28 November 2011
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Analysing Double Page Spead
By analysing this double page spread you can tell that the theme of these pages just by looking at them are heavy metal/rock music. With their long black hair, heavy make-up and the general black and white theme to the page. The expression on their faces is almost emotionless and the use of red in the page symbolises blood as this genre is known to self harm themselves. The text used is to the point and can come across rude and uses language that is not appropriate to the younger age group. The name of the band itself shows that it is not a happy theme at all they use the work 'murder' in their name and the word dolls is a contrast of this as dolls are usually played with by young innocent happy girls. So the name seems like it is killing all things sweet and innocent which is not a nice thing to think about, along with the black background puts a downer on the page, so it shows it does not want the target audience to be a happy group also it is written in a font that looks like it has been destroyed. Also the slogan says 'two's company' which means the target audience wants to be alone, they like to be on their own so again shows that the target audience is not a social group of people.Finally the text used is small in two columns and is written in white so it can clearly be read with what looks like a ripped up piece of paper in the middle to show the informal side to the article and how it is not clean and chic.
By analysing this double page spread you can tell that the theme of these pages just by looking at them are heavy metal/rock music. With their long black hair, heavy make-up and the general black and white theme to the page. The expression on their faces is almost emotionless and the use of red in the page symbolises blood as this genre is known to self harm themselves. The text used is to the point and can come across rude and uses language that is not appropriate to the younger age group. The name of the band itself shows that it is not a happy theme at all they use the work 'murder' in their name and the word dolls is a contrast of this as dolls are usually played with by young innocent happy girls. So the name seems like it is killing all things sweet and innocent which is not a nice thing to think about, along with the black background puts a downer on the page, so it shows it does not want the target audience to be a happy group also it is written in a font that looks like it has been destroyed. Also the slogan says 'two's company' which means the target audience wants to be alone, they like to be on their own so again shows that the target audience is not a social group of people.Finally the text used is small in two columns and is written in white so it can clearly be read with what looks like a ripped up piece of paper in the middle to show the informal side to the article and how it is not clean and chic.
Developing my Double Page Spread
finally i started to add the text but at this point i did not think about how big the text would be when i printed it out as an actual A3 size so then i printed this to test for the size of the text and realised it was way to big so then had to think about how the text would look better. e.g in 3 columns.
i then coloured in the title using the bucket tool.
i started by editing my image so it was brighter and stands out more then i added other pictures from my photoshoot to use as little images that are like photobooth shots and then i added a title to the double page spread so the audience know briefly what the article is about.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Intertextuality
what would my band be interested in?
The artist i have created is a lot like Rihanna, the edgy side to her. She wears skimpy outfits revealing a lot of flesh and she has heavy make up and embellished clothing. There image is portrayed as sexy.
I have created my artists interests to similar to my target audiences interests so therefore the audience can relate to Amy Jane with their similar characteristics.
My artist will be a very social person, she loves going out but does not put a bad image across of herself. But as she is portrayed in a sexual manner she should not appeal to the younger age group as it is not appropriate.
Semantic Field
indie
original
party
clubbing
food
fashion
good time
new experiences
fun
image
music
guitar
piano
what would my band be interested in?
The artist i have created is a lot like Rihanna, the edgy side to her. She wears skimpy outfits revealing a lot of flesh and she has heavy make up and embellished clothing. There image is portrayed as sexy.
I have created my artists interests to similar to my target audiences interests so therefore the audience can relate to Amy Jane with their similar characteristics.
My artist will be a very social person, she loves going out but does not put a bad image across of herself. But as she is portrayed in a sexual manner she should not appeal to the younger age group as it is not appropriate.
Semantic Field
indie
original
party
clubbing
food
fashion
good time
new experiences
fun
image
music
guitar
piano
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Developments for my front cover
I then thought that that text did not look right so got rid of it altogether and created a new text which also had hints of 3D to it to make it stand out a bit more and be more eye catching and attractive.

So then i changed to the font that was most popular with my target audience and added extra text to the front cover is the same shade to the 'Amy Jane' text.

This was the font i started out with to represent Amy Jane but i felt that it was too girly and too bright and contrasted the front cover to much and asked my target audience if they thought it was attractive and gave them a few fonts to look and and they preferred a different font.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Youth Subcultures
A group of individuals
whoa re united through a common value system and tastes (clothes, music, brands
etc.)
A group who are also
different from the mainstream. the postmodern world is full of diversity, dynamism and creativity. there is no generalisation of everyone.
Hybrid subcultures are a mix of two or more subcultures together.
People may also switch subcultures for example appear to conform for most of the working week, but re-enter the subculture at specific time (weekend, festivals etc.)
Pop music industry does not create long-lasting subcultures - it struggles to keep up with young values and groups.
History of music press (continued on from powerpoint)
Rolling Stone was created in the 1960's was a fortnightly publication which contained a mixture of current affairs, coverage of recent music and celebrity interviews.
1970's brought glam rock then prog rock.
Then NME changed its style to bring in punk.
1978 Smash Hits was produced, which made pop music come into fashion and changed the main fashion.
1980's independant music was released with loads of new music magazines being produced and lots of different styles of music not only h select few.
1990's music videos became a hit and MTV was produced and to this day many magazine and types of music are available the industry just keeps getting larger and larger.
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