H O W - D O E S - S O U N D W A V E - R E P R E S E N T - A - P A R T I C U L A R - S O C I A L - G R O U P

The social group that I aimed to represent through my magazine were confident teenagers passionate about music.

I have shown this through various ways, such as the appearance of the people in the magazine, being the same age of the group and showing their confidence through their expressions,

The ideas and values of the group are shown through the language used in the presentation. E.g. on my contents page, the readers are shown to be involved in the magazine and their artists by an article about what the readers have to say. The mannerisms or personality of the group are represented through the relaxed, informal use of language in both the interview and editors letter. This personal way of speaking gives connotations of friendliness and that they are good people. This can be reinforced when the ‘Desolate Saints’ say that they admire their fans.

In the interview of the band, the social group is represented at intelligent or talented in terms of music because most members of the featured band can read music and play multiple instruments. The fact that they met in college (shown by an answer in the interview) also suggests that the social group are educated people who enjoy school and have ambition to do well because of taking further education. The groups ambition is also expressed by their plans for the future and how they express that they want to do well and win awards for their music.

The social group is shown to consume music through the internet and television, which is shown on the contents page and double page spread because the band have a website and the contents page has an advert for a new music television channel.

E V A L U A T I O N

This is a slide show that i have created to show a presentation of the evaluation of my work answering the following questions:
How does SOUNDWAVE respresent particular social groups?
How do you attract/address your target audience?
In what way does SOUNDWAVE use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Who would be your audience for SOUNDWAVE?
What kind of institution might distribute SOUNDWAVE and why?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
Look back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt from it in the progression to the full products?

SOUNDWAVE Evaluation Presentation

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A U D I E N C E - E V A L U A T I O N S

I have received sime feeback from my target audience that I gave copies of the magazine to. Here are to photographs of the evalations forms that they filled in for me.

B E F O R E - A N D - A F T E R - E D I T I N G

These are some images before and after editing using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks:
Before:

After:

Before:

After:

F I N A L - S O U N D W A V E - D R A F T S

Here are the final drafts of my SOUNDWAVE magazine:

C H A N G I N G - I M A G E S

Because I did a second photoshoot with the model to give her a different look and have clearer photos, I have had to edit the new pictures of her all into the drafts of my magazine. Here I have put comparisons of the before and after pictures of the first draft and final draft of my magazine.

As you can see I have made some of the purple squares more rounded and varied a lot more of the text on the front page. This gives a more professional and vaired look.

Here is the contents:

Here you can see most of the boxes and outlines of the contents page have now been rounded. I have also swapped the fonts of the 'Rtv' logo and changed over all the pictures of the female model, including the image of the front cover on the top right hand side of the contents page,

Here are two comparison images of the double page spread:

In the fouble page spread I have changed the picture of the female model and added in the correct page numbers that are consistent with those indicated in the contents page.

P H O T O S H O O T S

The first photoshoots that I did were with the female that appears on the front cover. The next were with the two young men who appear in the double page spread. Unfortunately none of the models that I used were available on the same day, so I had to super-impose them next to each other using photoshop when they appeared in the double page spread together using a computer.

Later on I re-did the photoshoot with the girl of the magazine to get a clearer image. Also, I made her look more glamorous and professional so that she did not look as rough and upset when she appeared on the front cover.

This is the camera that I used on all the photoshoots (a Nikon D3000 D-SLR camera):

Here is the backdrop that I used for the second photoshoot with the female model in my living room (in the other photoshoots I used a brick background that I either kept or edited out on Adobe Photoshop). It was made out of a white sheet hung up on a photography backdrop stand.

I went through my models wardrobe to find some appropirate clothes for her to wear to make her look like a real rock star. I asked her to put on dark makeup and have straigh hair.