Media evaluation

Mario Pinto

i⦁ n what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Research ⦁For my magazine I researched two hip hop magazines before I was planning and making my product. The two magazines I researched were Vibe and XXL. These magazines are about hip hop, R&B and rap in today's world. Vibe magazines also feature actors and other entertainers, like comedies, who are supporters of hip hop. These magazines gave me a model to get my idea from for planning and making my product. I wanted my magazine to have the same flare that hip hop magazines had a, a similar style. I wanted my magazine to be as realistic as it could be. As Vibe did, I made masthead clear and bold because I felt it would catch the readers and intrigue them to read the magazine. I also like that used black colour font because I see black adominate and strong colour. These feature help a lot because that's how I felt when I was reading Vibe magazine.

Mario Pinto

Contents page

I researched vibe magazine and how they displayed their contents page; I took at inspiration and tried to make a similar design. I broke up features into to section and kept the pictures to one side for the reader to see two different sides, ones with photos and the others with features. I used the same numbering however I didn’t put any text on my pictures. My contents page was better with only the picture and the number. We can see in the vibe contents page how the pictures are displayed in vertical rows, this is for the reader to see and they read down the contents page so I made and similar design as this. I change the way I displayed my photos because I felt my main feature should have the biggest picture because it’s the most important.

Mario Pinto

Double page spread

Mario Pinto

For my double page spread I looked at a different design, XXL magazine. There magazine are about hip hop and R&B . On the double page we have soldier boy and 50 Cent , well know rappers . They are giving of that 'hard' look . I decided to use a similar pose to show that my character is sort of a 'Badman' which makes my double page spread interesting to read.

I liked the colour scheme of the double page spread because it was a grey white and it had bold writing which stood out a lot in the background. My colour scheme was a light brown background which I believe fitted well with my picture and my writing because it helped my picture to really reveal itslef.I put my photo on the left them same as the double page as XXL photo, I like that they do this because they have the phot o on one side and text on the other. This good division between the double page spread.

On my double page spread I put in the MobMusic masthead next to my page number because I felt I gave off more of that professional look this makes my magazine look better and professional. Readers would like it because of its design.