- Total circulation sales are 52,272 (50,128 in UK and republic of Ireland) - 01-Jul-2008 to 31-Dec-2008.
- The publishing company is Bauer Consumer Media (Emap sold 2/3 of the company to Bauer)
- Cover price is £2.20, which is cheap for the target audience (students, young people with low incomes etc..)
-Single copy subscription sales are 5,523 (5,062 in UK and republic of Ireland) - 01-Jul-2008 to 31-Dec-2008.
- Weekly music magazine of the rock genre.
- First Published June 6th 1981 with Geoff Barton as editor.
- Is famous (and criticised) for repeating the process of discarding bands when new musical trends become popular.
- Kerrang! Australia was launched by Emap in the late 1990's, however it was a monthly music magazine.
- Kerrang! is also published in Spanish.
- The Kerrang! empire has it's own awards ceremony, TV music station, Radio station and website.
- The magazine gives out occassional free gifts to satisfy the viewer such as calenders and CD's, however posters are included in every issue.
- It overtook NME as the number 1 rock/music magazine in the UK.
- Emap advertised the magazine more through its digital mediums such as Kerrang TV and Kerrang radio. This allows the magazine to generate more circulation figures and therefore more revenue. (Masthead Branding)
- The target audience is 16-25 year olds and specific towards rock music fans. However in recent years, the age of the audience has dropped and it is more 14-17 year olds who tend to buy and read it due to its featured bands being more poppy. (Elliot Minor, We Are The Ocean, 30 Seconds To Mars etc)
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
USING THIS FOR NEW MEDIA STUDIES SUBJECT - MAGAZINES
This will now be used for my new media studies subject which is the magazine industry and possibly my other subject which is horror films...but I doubt that.
I need somewhere to backup some of my notes on magazines.
Zing.
I need somewhere to backup some of my notes on magazines.
Zing.
Monday, 15 September 2008
Results are in!
My survey got some nice reponses, I am hoping to build on the opinions of everyone else now and hopefully create FACT. The amount of people who voted on each answer is marked next to it.
1) What sex are you?
- Male IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- Female IIIIIIIII
2) Do you or anyone you know carry a knife?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIII
3) If there were no laws against carrying a knife or stabbing anyone, would you carry one?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIII
4) If yes, then why?
- Protection IIIIIIII
- To look cool
- To stab anyone who does anything wrong II
- Because other people would be III
Other _________________________
5) Have you seen either Kidulthood or Adulthood?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIIII
6) If yes, did you feel an attraction to carrying a knife after the film?
- Yes IIIIIIII
- No IIII
7) When reading or hearing about another knife crime victim, what would be your top reaction?
- "Poor soul" IIIIIIIIIII
- "The person probably deserved it" IIII
- "I'm scared it might happen to me" IIIIIIII
- "I'll carry a knife then as well"
I find it alarming that most of the people who took the survey and knew someone who carried a knife were male. Most of the people who answered that they would carry a knife if the laws weren't there were male too, possibly giving the knife epidemic a stereotype that it is mostly young males.
It was disturbing to find out that most of the time people would carry a knife just for protection, young people feeling they are not safe on the street is not what this country should have to put up with and it needs to be put to a stop. Most of the candidates that had seen the films 'Adulthood' and 'Kidulthood' did feel an attraction to carrying a knife due to the glamourisation of a knife in the films.
1) What sex are you?
- Male IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- Female IIIIIIIII
2) Do you or anyone you know carry a knife?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIII
3) If there were no laws against carrying a knife or stabbing anyone, would you carry one?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIII
4) If yes, then why?
- Protection IIIIIIII
- To look cool
- To stab anyone who does anything wrong II
- Because other people would be III
Other _________________________
5) Have you seen either Kidulthood or Adulthood?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIIII
6) If yes, did you feel an attraction to carrying a knife after the film?
- Yes IIIIIIII
- No IIII
7) When reading or hearing about another knife crime victim, what would be your top reaction?
- "Poor soul" IIIIIIIIIII
- "The person probably deserved it" IIII
- "I'm scared it might happen to me" IIIIIIII
- "I'll carry a knife then as well"
I find it alarming that most of the people who took the survey and knew someone who carried a knife were male. Most of the people who answered that they would carry a knife if the laws weren't there were male too, possibly giving the knife epidemic a stereotype that it is mostly young males.
It was disturbing to find out that most of the time people would carry a knife just for protection, young people feeling they are not safe on the street is not what this country should have to put up with and it needs to be put to a stop. Most of the candidates that had seen the films 'Adulthood' and 'Kidulthood' did feel an attraction to carrying a knife due to the glamourisation of a knife in the films.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Put your hands up if you are blaming knife crime on the media?
Over the few years in which knife crime has increased within the young community, many people have commented on what they thought was the reason for the recent epidemic. With films, music and games being the most common.
Actor, Sir Richard Attenborough, believes it is the American gangster films that are to blame due to knives seeming normal making viewers desensitised to real life crime as the graphic images from on screen are so frequent. He added that modern cinema has created a culture where teenagers and young adults are no longer shocked by weapons. Thirty years ago, a weapon was pulled out during a film and the audience would gasp in a state of shock, nowadays, the audience wouldn't have any reaction as they see it as normal. This cinema experience reflects onto reality as knives aren't seen as a huge thing when teenagers carry them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038361/Violent-movies-blame-knife-crime-wave-blasts-Sir-Richard-Attenborough.html
London (awesome guy) Mayor Of London blames the video games that this generation of young people favour. His aim is to show young people that the characters in video games aren't their idols and to push positive idols onto them so their behaviour reflects their idol.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30932/Violent-games-encourage-knife-crime-says-Boris-Johnson
Actor, Sir Richard Attenborough, believes it is the American gangster films that are to blame due to knives seeming normal making viewers desensitised to real life crime as the graphic images from on screen are so frequent. He added that modern cinema has created a culture where teenagers and young adults are no longer shocked by weapons. Thirty years ago, a weapon was pulled out during a film and the audience would gasp in a state of shock, nowadays, the audience wouldn't have any reaction as they see it as normal. This cinema experience reflects onto reality as knives aren't seen as a huge thing when teenagers carry them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038361/Violent-movies-blame-knife-crime-wave-blasts-Sir-Richard-Attenborough.html
London (awesome guy) Mayor Of London blames the video games that this generation of young people favour. His aim is to show young people that the characters in video games aren't their idols and to push positive idols onto them so their behaviour reflects their idol.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30932/Violent-games-encourage-knife-crime-says-Boris-Johnson
Sunday, 31 August 2008
HOLY JESUS! ANOTHER SURVEY!?
That's right.
I love the surveys.
I would probably leave my boyfriend and marry them if i could...but let's not get onto that subject.
I have devised yet another survey as i feel the one before was ...well....crap. This one will also have more reference to the films Kidulthood and Adulthood as now my hypothesis has been decided and they play a big part in my argument. So here we go....results shall be posted when i get a good mix of people taking it.
1) What sex are you?
- Male
- Female
2) Do you or anyone you know carry a knife?
- Yes
- No
3) If there were no laws against carrying a knife or stabbing anyone, would you carry one?
- Yes
- No
4) If yes, then why?
- Protection
- To look cool
- To stab anyone who does anything wrong
- Because other people would be
Other _________________________
5) Have you seen either Kidulthood or Adulthood?
- Yes
- No
6) If yes, did you feel an attraction to carrying a knife after the film?
- Yes
- No
7) When reading or hearing about another knife crime victim, what would be your top reaction?
- "Poor soul"
- "The person probably deserved it"
- "I'm scared it might happen to me"
- "I'll carry a knife then as well"
hopefully that is gooooood enough!
oh survey, i love you
I love the surveys.
I would probably leave my boyfriend and marry them if i could...but let's not get onto that subject.
I have devised yet another survey as i feel the one before was ...well....crap. This one will also have more reference to the films Kidulthood and Adulthood as now my hypothesis has been decided and they play a big part in my argument. So here we go....results shall be posted when i get a good mix of people taking it.
1) What sex are you?
- Male
- Female
2) Do you or anyone you know carry a knife?
- Yes
- No
3) If there were no laws against carrying a knife or stabbing anyone, would you carry one?
- Yes
- No
4) If yes, then why?
- Protection
- To look cool
- To stab anyone who does anything wrong
- Because other people would be
Other _________________________
5) Have you seen either Kidulthood or Adulthood?
- Yes
- No
6) If yes, did you feel an attraction to carrying a knife after the film?
- Yes
- No
7) When reading or hearing about another knife crime victim, what would be your top reaction?
- "Poor soul"
- "The person probably deserved it"
- "I'm scared it might happen to me"
- "I'll carry a knife then as well"
hopefully that is gooooood enough!
oh survey, i love you
From Kidulthood to Adulthood....
Adulthood and Kidulthood remain a favourite in the urban teenager's film collection. With it's gritty storylines and reflection on the realities of a teenager living in the modern urban world, it attracts young audiences to watch and idolise the fictional characters on the screen.
However, is it right for such young people to be looking up to the actions these characters are acting out?
After watching both films, I find it alarming and disturbing the violence and filth that is being shown to an audience who are as young as 15 (or possibly younger if they have managed to see the 15 certificate film).
The first film of the two remains to be the most distressing with violent bullying, prostitution, casual sex, drug dealing and most importantly knife crime.
Knives are produced throughout the film, with our first glimpse of one about 50 minutes into the film when one of the youths we follow throughout the film reveals it when him and his friends get into a brawl with two other youths they just happened to accidently bump into. And the worrying scene when 15 year old Trife's drug dealing uncle makes him carve into a man's face. Accompanying these attacks, there are also continuous reference to knives when one youth threatens another with the act of "shanking them up".
The sequel to Kidulthood, Adulthood, doesn't seem to pose any better. With the main character, Sam, being stabbed towards the beginning of the film telling it's audience that this film is going to be violent and troubling.
However, the teenagers and young adults watching both these films may not see it as a warning. They may see it as rebelious and attractive and strive to be like their idol in the film, copying what they do if they are confronted in a situation, or indeed create the situation themselves.
In the films, using a knife seems to be connotated as either a way out, revenge or just giving somebody what they believe they deserve. Knife use in the films are violent and show the gorey effects of it but never seize to show the reality of it. In Kidulthood, when Trife carves into the man's face, we never know what happens to the man in the end. Whilst it may seem that it isn't a fatal kind of knife attack, some situations can change that view and all knife attacks can prove to be fatal. In Adulthood, Sam get's stabbed in the shoulder towards the beginning of the film, however he still appears to have the strength to get up and kick his attacker onto the floor and then threaten him with the knife. The films may be applauded for reflecting the shabby facts of life for young people in urban ares, but it lacks the massive truth in the actions the characters are carrying out. That people can die from any stab wound.
This missing part of the truth causes a huge change in the behaviour of the youths around us as they are led to believe that a stab wound won't get them into big trouble and then they carry around a knife and use it when it pleases them.
I believe films and tv are the main culprits for the increase in knife crime amongst young people. These technologies are what are most popular in a teenager's life and when they are young and naive, they can be stupid and believe and copy anything they see and think may be 'wreckless fun'.
Films before Kidulthood and Adulthood involving knives and guns may have just been a gangster type film or action film but when these two British films arrived on the scene, it became a lot easier for young people to want to mirror what they see on the screen.
However, is it right for such young people to be looking up to the actions these characters are acting out?
After watching both films, I find it alarming and disturbing the violence and filth that is being shown to an audience who are as young as 15 (or possibly younger if they have managed to see the 15 certificate film).
The first film of the two remains to be the most distressing with violent bullying, prostitution, casual sex, drug dealing and most importantly knife crime.
Knives are produced throughout the film, with our first glimpse of one about 50 minutes into the film when one of the youths we follow throughout the film reveals it when him and his friends get into a brawl with two other youths they just happened to accidently bump into. And the worrying scene when 15 year old Trife's drug dealing uncle makes him carve into a man's face. Accompanying these attacks, there are also continuous reference to knives when one youth threatens another with the act of "shanking them up".
The sequel to Kidulthood, Adulthood, doesn't seem to pose any better. With the main character, Sam, being stabbed towards the beginning of the film telling it's audience that this film is going to be violent and troubling.
However, the teenagers and young adults watching both these films may not see it as a warning. They may see it as rebelious and attractive and strive to be like their idol in the film, copying what they do if they are confronted in a situation, or indeed create the situation themselves.
In the films, using a knife seems to be connotated as either a way out, revenge or just giving somebody what they believe they deserve. Knife use in the films are violent and show the gorey effects of it but never seize to show the reality of it. In Kidulthood, when Trife carves into the man's face, we never know what happens to the man in the end. Whilst it may seem that it isn't a fatal kind of knife attack, some situations can change that view and all knife attacks can prove to be fatal. In Adulthood, Sam get's stabbed in the shoulder towards the beginning of the film, however he still appears to have the strength to get up and kick his attacker onto the floor and then threaten him with the knife. The films may be applauded for reflecting the shabby facts of life for young people in urban ares, but it lacks the massive truth in the actions the characters are carrying out. That people can die from any stab wound.
This missing part of the truth causes a huge change in the behaviour of the youths around us as they are led to believe that a stab wound won't get them into big trouble and then they carry around a knife and use it when it pleases them.
I believe films and tv are the main culprits for the increase in knife crime amongst young people. These technologies are what are most popular in a teenager's life and when they are young and naive, they can be stupid and believe and copy anything they see and think may be 'wreckless fun'.
Films before Kidulthood and Adulthood involving knives and guns may have just been a gangster type film or action film but when these two British films arrived on the scene, it became a lot easier for young people to want to mirror what they see on the screen.
Thursday, 14 August 2008
Back into the swing of things...
Right so, i haven't done any work recently and i figured i should do some just to get back into the habit of it.
I have decided to look at the films Adulthood and Kidulthood to see how the street violence (mainly the knife crime) in the films influence teenagers into following the film and being a copycat.
I am interested in finding teenagers that find they have to carry a knife themselves or carry out any act of street violence on others, whether they have been reading about the crimes in the newspapers or watching it on the tv or just simply watching films that are strong in teenage violence and glamourise it to the public.
Seeing knife crime constantly in the media can have three effects on people;
- Shock them into seeing the consequences and turning their backs on committing the crime.
- Make them fear it may just happen to them and therefore they feel the need to carry a knife themselves in 'defence'.
- Make them want to carry a knife because it seems that everyone else is and it can make them feel 'hard'.
Different types of media can have different effects on people, the news giving off more of a shock towards teenagers whereas films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, which have a target audience of teenagers and young adults, will glamourise the use of knives and street crime as teenagers look to these films as enjoyment and entertainment and may want to copy their favourite characters in it.
With my hypothesis in place, i am ready to devise another survey to be carried out for deffinate in the next few days to gather the facts on whether teenagers feel the need to carry knives after seeing coverage on the news or the films that have made it into the mainstream.
I have decided to look at the films Adulthood and Kidulthood to see how the street violence (mainly the knife crime) in the films influence teenagers into following the film and being a copycat.
I am interested in finding teenagers that find they have to carry a knife themselves or carry out any act of street violence on others, whether they have been reading about the crimes in the newspapers or watching it on the tv or just simply watching films that are strong in teenage violence and glamourise it to the public.
Seeing knife crime constantly in the media can have three effects on people;
- Shock them into seeing the consequences and turning their backs on committing the crime.
- Make them fear it may just happen to them and therefore they feel the need to carry a knife themselves in 'defence'.
- Make them want to carry a knife because it seems that everyone else is and it can make them feel 'hard'.
Different types of media can have different effects on people, the news giving off more of a shock towards teenagers whereas films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, which have a target audience of teenagers and young adults, will glamourise the use of knives and street crime as teenagers look to these films as enjoyment and entertainment and may want to copy their favourite characters in it.
With my hypothesis in place, i am ready to devise another survey to be carried out for deffinate in the next few days to gather the facts on whether teenagers feel the need to carry knives after seeing coverage on the news or the films that have made it into the mainstream.
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