Final Product
Preliminary task
Something I've learnt from the making of the preliminary task to the final product is that it is vital to find a unique selling point. For my preliminary I very much stuck to normal and conventional aspects of magazines but after researching for my final product, it was obvious that magazines that are controversial and get attention, like Rolling Stone magazine, were much more likely to survive and be memorable. I also found that people who push boundaries in terms of editing and creating (like David Carson) were much more likely to be memorable and for their ideas to make the magazines almost collectible items and this is incredibly important due to the decline in the purchase of print press, therefore I tried to push boundaries and be creative with my final product and hope that it paid off rather than look too weird even for the target audience.
It was also vital to me that the magazine was staying within the ideologies of punk and rock and the sub genres of these and that it was opposing mainstream views of female roles in music. Trying to avoid adding to the evidence for the male gaze theory and not making women in music a sex object. As well as focussing on important societal issues; I thought that it should also be focussing on the music of the people in the magazine rather than trivial questions that are asked in other magazines like " what is your perfect date?" etc. However, it was equally important that the magazine had personality and the ability to include the audience in what they read whilst still being mature enough as to not make the reader feel like a child.
