My Final Front Cover

My Final Contents Page

My Final Double Page Spread

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is an example of a member of my target audience when doing my research.

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

How I created the image of the brick wall

 I started removing the people from the image by using the lasso tool on photoshop to 'delete' the people from the image.

 I then continued to do this with all of the little bits that were present on the image until it was just the brick wall.

After I had removed everything I used the brush tool in a variation of dark brown and light brown to balance out the colours of the wall and make it all an even colour. I then used this image on my contents page.

How I made my contents page

 First of all I added lines to the page to section the different parts off like they did in my influence for my contents page. I did this by making small black rectangles so they had a thicker impact.

 I then added 'INSIDE IND*E' to the top of the contents page as well as the date of the magazine. I used a slight squash effect on the text to give it a bit of depth and make it individual.

 I then added a picture of 'The Frames' to the contents page and made sure it fit within the sections of the lines.

 I then added text underneath the picture to include information about what the story is going to be about.

 Next I added a selection of page numbers and what is on those pages in the middle bottom section as that was on the contents page that I was most influenced by. 

 I then added an image of the other artist featured in the magazine and a slight insight into what his story was about.

 Next I used an image I had taken previously and removed the people to just show the wall behind. 

 I then added a burgundy rectangle to the top left of the contents page and placed text on top of that to create depth to the contents page and so there was more to look at. 

 Then I added text on top of the picture of the brick wall about a yearly subscription. I also added a picture of the front cover as I had seen other magazines doing that on their own contents page.

Finally I added page numbers to my images so that people knew what was on which page etc. I used a bright blue for the numbers so that they were bold and stood out. 

Draft of Double Page Spread

Draft of Contents Page

My Altered Front Cover

I plan on taking my own version of these google images and trying to re-create them later on.

My Article

“It’s all about the girls, man” Lead Singer Tom Bell jokes and winks at fellow bass player Joe, as the band are sprawled out across their dirty clothes and old food thrown around their apartment. Its shown the band clearly have more care of their skater- rough and ready appearance than their living environment. “But seriously” Tom starts in the husky voice we are used to hearing from their debut single ‘Under your skin’ “We love the attention, but, for me anyway, its more about the thrill of people listening to your music and seeing them enjoying it as much as we do when were making it”.

The band formed last summer after all meeting at Leeds Fest and realized they all attended the same university. “We were inspired by the music that had enveloped us whilst at Leeds Fest, and felt we should have a go creating our own” Lead guitarist Ash Wray expressed. “Yeah I mean, we’ve all been playing since the age of like 6 or 7 so we knew what was expected of us”, drummer Callum Beverley informed us.

Now signed with leading indie label Stand Out, The Frames tweeked their image to fit in with the music genre and really promote their style of music. Their ripped black skinny jeans and oversized parkas emphasise their rough style and especially the leather jackets make the girls weak at the knee’s when linked with the masculine voices projecting their emotional lyrics.

Their first gig was at Fruit in Hull in November 2013. The band performed their debut single along with lots of new material they had been working on since September which proved to be a hit with the crowd as the screams roared through the bar and out onto the street. The nature and personality of the band oozes through their music that seemed to appeal to their listeners and their relatable and heartfelt lyrics had the girls screaming for more. It seems that The Frames have more to add to their newly found fame as their new album is being released at the beginning of 2014. It will be available from iTunes from the 2^nd of February. IND*E suspect this band will maybe be the next Arctic Monkeys?

The original images that I have used in my front cover, contents page and DPS

All of my images

I didn't like these images as I felt they were too dark and that they needed to be re-done. 

I re-took my original images to make them brighter so they had more of an impact when looking at them. For my new images I also changed a member of the band to make it appear more 'indie' and I also had them in a different position for the long shot so they were against a graffitied wall.  

I photographed the band members from behind to add variety to my images and I liked the effect it had for my potential DPS.

I took these images as long shots so I could fit all of the band members in and it created depth in the image as the band members are positioned in a triangle type of position. 

 I photographed this image as long shot image so that the full outfit was visible to help portray the style of the magazine to the audience.

I took this image as a medium close up so you can see the face clearly yet the background still has a presence in the image giving it depth and a story almost.