1. AS Level Foundation Portfolio Media Evaluation By Jack Young

2. Genres

3. Genres I chose and why Rock hard rock and metal My favourite genres and target markets favourite genres Rock and metal are very diverse and there are lot of genre variations e.g. Hard Rock, Alternative Rock.

4. Target Groups Mainly teenagers Those who listen to the genres; Rock, Hard Rock and Metal No specific gender

5. Attracting My Audiences My font connotes Rock/Metal through it’s industrial appearance An instrument featured on the front cover attracts those who may play the bass guitar.

6. Technologies Used Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe InDesign CS4 Mac OSX Various different Camera’s

7. Thoughts On Technologies Photoshop – Very complicated, struggled thoroughly InDesign – Quite complicated, but could use it better Mac OSX – Personally prefer Windows Camera’s – Easy to use despite faulty USB port

8. Representing Particular Social Groups The social group I represent are stereotypically thought of as anti-social and intimidating. Therefore, through the use of festival advertising, my social group appears less intimidating

9. Forms and Conventions Short Snappy Title, ‘Hazard’, similar to ‘Kerrang!’ – eye catching and memorable Large masthead, similar to ‘Kerrang’. This makes the magazine more memorable

10. Preliminary Task Progressions I have progressed in Photoshop and InDesign e.g. using magnetic lasso tool

11. Natural Lighting and Picture Taking Better use of natural light Better use of space

12. Institutions I have chosen a publishing company named 55 North Limited. They are based in Scotland, and produce magazines for Dixons, Whyte & Mackay, Scottish Enterprise and Currys.

13. Choices Made and Outcomes I chose a bass guitar on my front cover, which proved very difficult to lasso on Photoshop. Instead I decided to only include the body, which resulted in a lot of space unoccupied.

14. Contents Page and Double Page Spread