Evaluation part 4

My product represents the particular social group of people who like metal and hardcore by appealing to them with the bands included inside the magazine. The pictures area also all of young people, who would be the ones reading the magazine. I have implied that they have the qualities of having a lot of fun and enjoying life as much as they can.

A lot of youths are stereotyped for violence in the mainstream media and this is something I have not included in my magazine as it helps to enforce a positive view of young people. I have neither reinforced or challenged stereotypes but instead tried to present everyone in the magazine as just normal people.

My pictures are all light-hearted compared to the often serious poses in most magazines. It creates an atmosphere of light-heartedness and everyone being friendly towards each other.

People often associate listeners of metal with dark clothing and black hair but the picture on my front cover features a boy in a bright orange suit. This is going against the stereotype for that particular area.

 

I think my magazine would be published by Bauer as they publish a lot of music magazines but none of them have such a heavy focus on the hardcore genre. I believe that they would want to publish it because it would offer a broader audience for their company and get them a lot more sales.

The new variety they would gain from it would be beneficial to them and would help with the selling of my magazine. Publishing independently would allow for a lot more creative output but it would also be a lot harder to advertise the magazine and sell it. It is a very good advantage to have a publishing company behind the magazine. The only disadvantage would be if they took a lot of the creativity from the makers of the magazine, but I believe with a music magazine such as this that not a lot would need to be edited and thus a publisher is the best way.