Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Evaluation 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Before I started my magazine I carried out a few surveys for my demographic target audience. The survey consisted of questions which would help me create an urban magazine, it will feature what my audience want, therefore be more appealing.

One main factor for my audience is colour scheme, due to the urban art and graffiti. I did a further survey asking 10 people who represented my target audience to suggest a colour scheme. One trend was the grey urban landscape; I included this throughout my magazine for consistency.

I also asked my target audience about the images I would use for my magazine, they suggested not to follow conventions of artists smoking, showing money or drinking, as it gives society a negative view, they suggested to have images which still contains the urban roots but to be positive, I incorporated this into my whole magazine.

Negative Images

Positive Images

Another point was to include the right artist's in the magazine, my target audience suggested to feature young, urban artists, as they can relate, rather than following conventions of older artists, they also suggested to include up coming events about the artists.

Finally my audience wanted the double page spread feature article to be appealing, for this reason I included as many images to balance the text to image ratio, I used bold and artistic fonts for puffs, I also made my double page spread more appealing, one side contains a whole A4 image, whilst the other contains text.

Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Evaluation 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The image for my front cover was used to test  the convention of artists on front covers, I challenged  this convention as I didn’t want to follow the stereotypical views of artists smoking and wasting money on chains. 

I followed the convention of this specific  Vibe cover, it doesn’t contain any illegal substances such as drugs, no gold chains are included or a large sum of money. T.I is portrayed in a positive way, this shows how artists differ, in modern days we are seeing more positive  attitudes towards underground and urban culture. I chose to do this as my demographic  audience  are not fans of negative views. However I still followed the convention of certain iconography such as casual clothing, this is to reflect the urban genre which my magazine concentrates on. My front cover does not break the whole hip hop music magazine convention . The posture and hand sign to go with the iconography clothing  are followed conventions.  The colour scheme also relates to my audience, the grey urban landscape is used throughout my magazine.

Feature

My double page spread was inspired by hip hop magazine such as vibe and XXL as they distribute in this form.

The picture for my double page spread does not  follow conventions of artists again smoking, drinking or showing off money, instead I portrayed an artists for who they are. It’s the talent that makes people want to read and not products, I chose to go against how artists are represented in the media, the negative views are exaggerated then globalised , not every artists commits crime, gets tattoos and spends a large amount of money on alcohol, no-one is concentrating on the positive views. The only iconography in this picture is the t-shirt with written text, this is used in modern urban culture to advertise their music. I used this to relate back to my urban fans and to relate to the genre. 

Negative Media views on artists.

My Feature article

Content

My contents page only contains information which relate to urban culture and not mainstream information, my demographic audience do not pay attention to celebrity news.

Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (real world music magazines)

Final Magazine

Official Front Cover

Official Front Cover, how i made it

Firstly using the colour tool, I set the urban grey landscape as my background colour.

Using the vector text tool I added my masthead, then changed the font to Agency FB due to the bold and strong look.

I then added my puffs, I made them the same font for consistency, I added artist anchorage text and made this bold and bigger, I also made my anchorage text a different colour to stand out, this is so the audience know who my magazine is concentrating on.

I added my image into my front cover by copying and pasting. Using the magic wand tool, I got rid of this pictures normal white background. I did this as I decided that the urban grey landscape will be the main background throughout the magazine .

Finally using the shapes tool, I added a rectangle on the bottom right corner, this includes : bar code, Q-code, the date and price. I copied and pasted the bar code and Q-code and moved this across and made it fit into the rectangle by decreasing the size using the scale tool. I added the price and date using the text tool.

Contents page Improved

Contents page feedback

Good
Good use of spacing
Text ratio to image balanced
contains a lot of information
Different angle shots for image rather than the same shot angles
has consistency, all the fonts and colour scheme

Improvements
align the boxes, some of them are just placed and floating

Feature Article Improvement

Looking back at my first feature article the columns were not justified I improved this by moving all the text into one side of my double page spread then justifying.
I then added an opening text that stands out,  its bold compared to the other text, My title is the same font as my masthead for consistency it also makes it more professional because of the layout, on my original feature article the title was overlaying my image, I also decided to change my image, I did this as the original image would not fill in the whole A4 side, I decided to use another picture which used the spacing properly. My new feature article also follows conventions, It know has a boarder line. I increased the size of my quotation as it blended into my actual text.

Feature Article Feedback

Positives:

The colour coordination links well together
The font style links to target audience and fits well into the page, it doesn't stand out
The picture is very clear.
The amount of text used is good, not too much nor is it too small
Simple order to follow, not confusing to read

Negatives and Improvements 

The columns need to be justified
Need an opening text where it is different to the other text, it needs to stand out
the quotation needs to be a little bigger and slightly moved
Need a boarder line around the magazine, this needs to be done for all edges
Change of colour for when the artists is speaking,

Feature Article

How I Made My Feature Article

To start my feature article, i first edited my picture and pasted it into fireworks. My feature photo is placed in the top right corner, this takes up half of an A4 page as my feature will be a double page spread.

Using the eye dropper tool I used the colour of my artists face and made this the background so it links back to the image.

I added my title using the text icon, after i decided on where to place the title, i again used the eye dropper tool to use the white logo of the artists hat to make it my official chosen colour for my title.

Using the text tool i added my text and put them into columns, the size of my text is 14. To link back to my urban target audience I changed the font to HOBO STD, so the magazine does not look like an ordinary NME magazine or Q magazine, i followed the conventions of urban magazines such as Vibe and XXL. I also moved the texts in the last 2 columns and the reason for this is so that i can place quotation from the artist into that chosen spot.

When i added a Quotation i had to make a few more adjustments and shifted my text so it fitted into my article; I made my quotation white linking back to the white logo of my artist’s hat and the title of this feature article.

Feature Article Planning

Feature Article interview

For my feature article, I plan to base it around the artist I managed to get in contact with called VELLI; the article will mostly talk about his lifestyle, how he defines success and what he would like to achieve to become successful. Most importantly music and how it has affected his life. My feature will be called ‘I AM ME’. I got a reply from the artist agreeing to do an interview, the questions are:

      ‘VELLI’? Where did the name come from and what is your real name?

  Music, you've made upbeat rap, slow jams and even Sang in couple of tracks? But what category would        you place yourself upon?

 Did you enjoy school life and what life lesson have you gained?

 Record labels? Any plans to get signed?

 Family/friends support your goals and aspirations? Did they motivate you to stick to what you want to do?

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Feature article conventions / research

Conventions of a feature article

Most people buy a music magazine due to the feature article; the magazine is concentrating either on celebrities or stars. The audience who purchase a magazine would like to read about their idols or celebrity interview.   

Feature articles are usually published in double page spreads, it includes pictures, quotes, colour and text, however a feature article can also be a single A4 page, and this still follows the same conventions of a double page spread.

The same style of pages is used for consistency.

Headlines and subheadings are used to explain celebrity or star stories to grab audience’s attention (puns and questions about tours, album releases)

Artists or stars only feature in a magazine if they have new projects/tours/album releases and so on.  

The images should dominate the page, this can be one large image, or one large image with other small images, and this should be different locations.

An anchorage is used to explain the images.

 

 

 

 

Contents

Photoshoot

These are a couple of photos which stood out to me for my music magazine.  

I picked this picture out of the 3 similar ones to be my front cover image, this is because of his position, leaning forward, looking straight at the camera and its the strongest image. whereas within the other images he looks bored and tired.

This was the image for my front cover for my first draft magazine, however because of the background green area, this does not relate to my urban demographic target audience, therefore it would not work

I picked this image to be included in my contents page because of the lighting, and the background, its different and I wanted a range of different shots 

This image also used in my contents page because of the different angle shot, i also like the background of city blocks, also the iconography of the snapback representing young people

For this image i used this mainly because of the iconography of the moped, it is a cheap transport system available to 16 year olds and for that reason I wanted to include it as people can relate

For this image I was originally going to use it for my feature article, but because i couldn't enlarge the picture I decided to use it for my content because its a strong picture, it contains iconography of the hat, this is when young artists advertise themselves by including text, also because Velli is the artist whos featuring I thought it would be a good idea to include him in the contents.

This is the image for my feature page, its a portrait picture meaning it will cover a whole A4 side. I like this picture because of the black and white, its modern with an old twist. I like how the camera is focused on Velli and how everything in the background is blur.