Institurional Context

Prodution compaines:
Jennifers body was producted by Fox Atomic. Other films they've made include the Rocker, I love you Beth Cooper, The Hills have eyes 2 ,28 Days later. These films are aimed at teenagers. All the films by this company have a similar budget, around 15-18 million. The budget effects different parts of a film. for example the more money the better actors you can get.

Scream was produced by Dimension films

Teen Horror Focus group

I wanted to find out what the main focus group was when it came to Teen Horror films. I asked 7 people aged 16-25, 5 females and 2 males. Over half of the people where mainstreamers and agreed that they enjoyed watching teen horror films. The reason was that they where funny, good to watch with friends and where interesting. The people that didn't like horror films where all male and said they didn't like the gore and the bad story lines. My studies showed that people mainly watch films for the social interaction and for a diverstion.

Photos

I didn't take any new photos for this magazine as i already had many live photos from gigs that i wanted to use.

For my front cover, i used a photo of Shane Told from the band Silverstein that i had taken at there gig in December. Silverstein are a post-hardcore emo band so they fit into the genre of SCREAM!. I was very happy with this picture and thort it would fit nicely, as the masthead could go where the picture was black at the top. Also, i think my magazine cover looks better with one all over picture, then with a colour background aswell as a main photo. The only editing i did was brighten up the colour.

I used this photo on the contents page for a competition for readers to send in their gig photos. i took this at a Hollywood Undead gig, its of all of our hands reading HU4L on out fingers, which stands for Hollywood Undead for Life. The band fits the genre of the magazine also so i thought it would be a good idea to use it. There is going to be a caption underneath it about the fa

Flat Plans

Ive decided to name my magazine SCREAM becuase it goes with the genre of music thats in my magazine, like screamo music.
My tag line is going to be, For people built for sin. i chose this bgecuase i thort it sounded cool and went with the target audience. Built for sin is also a song name by a band called Framing Hanley, this is where i got the idea from.

FONTS

Ive been looking at some fonts from the website defont and have found a few that i may choose to use in my magazine.

Ive decided to use the font 'Beyond Wonderland' for my masthead and tagline. 'for those build for sin' at the side is in this font. I liked this becuase it had a dark kinda emo feel to it which fitted the style i was going for with my magazine. The masthead will be in capitals and have an exclamation mark at the end in a large size to make sure it stands out.

For our main piece of coursework we are going to be producing a music magazine. Our magazine will consist of two front covers and a double page spread.

Ive decided to choose rock music as the main focus for my magazine and a target audience of alternative style teenagers with a passion for rock music. i chose a similar idea for my last task when we did a magazine for the college. Im going to be using pictures ive taken at gigs for the front cover and inside the magazine.i want the magazine to have a kind of dark feeling to it but with bursts of bright colours and bold fonts.

Analysing magazine - Kerrang!

The first magazine I'm going to be analysing is Kerrang!. The masthead Kerrang! is in black and has a white background. The style of font is interesting as it has gaps and cracks though it, this almost gives a kind of dark feeling to the magazine. The tag line on every issue is LIFE IS LOUD, it relates to the genre of the magazine and it is the same font and colour every week. However it is pink this week to match the other colours on this weeks cover.

I would say Kerrang! has a target audience of teenagers and rock music listeners. The front cover has mainly male rock stars on it, this maybe indicating a more female audience. it is a weekly magazine and is similar to the one I'm going to be producing. Every issue of Kerrang! has band names along the top and bottom that

are included in the magazine that week. also included are small pictures at the side that are the free posters included inside the magazine. The 'cover star' this week is Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day. As the main article this week is for rock icons he is a good person to choose for the cover. Also he would be included in the magazine with probably the most written about him. other rock stars included are in small boxes around him, only their heads are shown

The layout this week has overlaping pictures and does not have much blank space left, this is good as it makes the magazine look filled up and full of stuff to read. The writing is spaced out nicely so its easy to read. There is a side heading in a paint splodge saying 'live chaos' red is used to make it stand out next to the pink and yellow.

Ananylysing magazine - Rock Sound

The second maga

zine I'm going to be analysing is rock sound magazine. similar to Kerrang! rock sound is also focused on rock and alternative music, but it has a much wider rage of the genre.

This magazine changes its masthead colour every issue to go with the other colours being used. This week it is green to match the yellow being used with the name of the band featured in this issue..

the main image is of Muse, a rock/alternative band that readers of rocksound would be interested in reading about. The image has the lead singer in the middle and further forward, the other band members are standing behind him. They are pulling serious faces and have their arms crossed, this might be the image they want to portray. it makes them seem powerful.

The tagline used is NEW MUSIC FIRST and is underlined. the writing in this magazine is fairly formal, as it seems to have been written by intellectual writers.

The fact that their are free posters included this week is advertised on the left hand side. Again the colour yellow is used. FREE! is stressedby using capitals and an exclamation mark, shortened versions of band names are underneath so the readers know what bands will be on the posters. A free cd is also advertised along the top of the magazine, there is a free cd every week with Rocksound. To the right of this are some names of the bands on the cd, this is put on the cover to draw people in to buy the magazine if they like the free music offered.

This is a double page spread from Kerrang! magazine. It is a review from a Metallica concert. It includs pictures from the concert of the band and their support acts.

This is the contents page of Kerrang! magazine. it includes page numbers and smaller pictures of the ones inside. there is more pictures than writing, which draws you in more.

the colour scheme is black and yellow, this runs throught the whole magazine.

Every week theres a quote from a famous music artist, this weeks quote is by Metallica member Kirk Hammett.