Treatment.

On order to fulfil assessment objectives, A02, A03 and A04 I have to apply knowledge and understanding to show how meanings are created when analyzing media products and evaluating their own practical work; demonstrate the ability to plan and construct media products using appropriate technical and creative skills; demonstrate the ability to undertake and apply appropriate research.

Treatment: My magazine is called NAILSTORM. It is specifically a metal magazine, with different sub genres such as thrash, heavy and death metal. The magazine will contain generic elements of a metal magazine, including the house style which will contain pictures with an edgy attitude, gritty fonts and other generic elements including the byline of the magazine personnel which every music magazine has. The colours to enhance the house style will be greys, blacks, red, white and yellow. Yellow is used upon the greys and black mostly to highlight something such as a free CD or an important article. I will stereotypically use these colours to make the magazine look as real as possible.

The target audience will be aged 16 to 25 and perhaps upto 30. Because the interview of the contents page and the lexis used, they will be sophisticated in their language which in depth questions covering the artist’s opinions and overall persona – including their material they have already.

Photography design – The location, or specifically the desired location would be a derelict building or maybe the band’s location where they practice. Characters will be wearing generic costumes such as band t-shirts, camo or cut off trousers. The photos taken will be for the front cover, contents page (which will be one page) and the double page spread which will be obviously two pages. The expressions on my character’s faces will be the same as a metal magazine, for example the image below demonstrates the house style of the genre of the magazine.

This magazine is called Metal Hammer, this is the magazine I am mainly trying to replicate.



The interview and/or the article will be about the band or the main artist of the band – it will be an interview about the artist and the band’s success, it will reflect a generic interview through use of pull quotes, bylines and images that represent the interview.

The questions I will be asking during the interview will be stereotypical. See next post for the example of a typical interview. (This will be for the double page spread)

The mode of address will be teacher to pupil, in that the magazine will teach the audience of their opinions as most magazines have the approach that their opinions are right and the fact that you are reading their magazine states that their opinion is right. Thus, the mode of address is crucial as it further enhances the verisimilitude of a typical music magazine.

The Initial Recce I will take into consideration is that there will be no food or drink near the camera and the place where I will take some photos which will be in a Sheffield band practice building. There are no first aiders within these premises but there should primarily be no problems to cause an accident in the establishment.