Music magazine evaluation

MUSIC MAGAZINE EVALUATION

QUESTIONS• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media products? • How does your media product represent particular social

groups? • What kind of media institution might distribute your media

product and why? • Who would be the audience for your media product? • How did you attract/address your audience? • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product? • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge form and conventions of real media product?

• Masthead- Used in print media to identify the ownership and management of newspapers and magazines in this case. The masthead has 2 different colours which complements the gray background.The strap line says the world’s best selling rap magazine. The sentence is all in capital letters and i added some decoretions to the text to catch the reader eye.

• Left side- The left side contains the main features article. This is the core part of what may be inside the magazine. I used these bright colourse so the text is more readable .

• Main image- The main image is the central part of the magazine , is a mid-shot which helps to attract readers and is ussualy associated with topic in the magazine. I decided to add some effect to my picture to make it different from the one i got the ideas from. From this you can understand that this is a teenage magazine because older people like more serious stuff. Even the way the model dresses gives an idea for what range of age this magazine is. The way of dressing can also be a way to attract the audience. Hats are a usual thing for teenage people to wear especcialy for rapper , because makes the look more cool therefore my model is wearing a hat.

• Bar code- shows the importance retailer, little details like makes the magazine look more professional.

• Date/pricing- usually are there to show what time the information has come from and the monthly issues and the date.

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge form and conventions of real media product?

I tried to make my magazine look more professional by takeing the ideas from a popular magazine like vibe. I decided to change the colors of the word «contents» to give the magazine a more trandy look. Also i wanted to change it from the one i got the ideas and make it look more original. The main image is on the right hand side of my contents page as would it be on a tipical magazine and the model is looking left. The model look serious which give the contents page a hard core look. However i wanted to creat a more fun atmosphere by using different colours. The red coloure for the page number is so the reader can clearly see what page is each topic. The letter «R» behind the text makes the magazine look more interesting and as in vibe’s magazine the letter stands for the first letter of the magazine’s name. The strapline of the magazine has the website of the magazine which the reader can access for more info, also at the bottom of the picture i added the first 2 letters of the magazine which gives the page a much nice look. At the top of the page i added the name of the magazine the date and the number to make it look more like a real magazine. The differet topics are split in section and you can understand that by the use of different font for the title of each topic.

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge form and conventions of real media product?

The image resembles the rap genre by the way the model poses and stands in a relax and toned way. They way the model is dressed acts as a form of advertising which would encourage people to buy the clothes the model is wearing as the would aspire to become and look like them . People that would wear these fashionable clothes are teenage people between 16-20 years old. Teenage people nowadays always wear headphones to listen music and sometimes they just wear them around the neck to make the look cool, therefore my model is wearing headphones.I decided to break the story in 3 section to make it look less writing as my audience prefer more images than text. On the top right side i decided to put the image of the artist’s cd to fill the space and inform the audience about new album coming out. The headline which is RT stands for raptop which is the name of the magazine. I also decidet to put on the side of the picture a quote of the artist. The first letter of the text is a bigger size as it would be for most magazines and it has a different coloure which contrasts with the rest of the text.

• I belive that my media product which is a music magazine develops the codes and conventions of real media products of the same category rahter than challenge it . I ‘ve developed my flat plan in order to creat a rap magazine which hopefully would appeal to the 16-18 year old audience. I choose the name RAPTOP as i belive it resembles the rap gender as rap is usually rhytmic and noisy.

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge form and conventions of real media product?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• The social groups that are represented in my media product are people in the typical 16-18 year old. The majority male readers because female are not interested in rap as much as boys are. My magazine portrays a mixture of multi ehnic readers. The 16-18 year old category are usually heavy spenders e.g. Buy latest gadgets and designer clothes. This category use their spare time surfing the web and are normally involved in rap music. The type of people who would buy my magazine would usually be manual workers...that type of people that may work for the week in order to spend money made for the weekends.

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

• My media product might be distributed by Bauer Media. This is because it reaches over 19 milion UK adults across multiple media and adding a rap music magazine will increase the amount of adults reading Bauer’s media products. Also because bauer media has no rap music magazine on their market, but instead they have magazine such as Smash Hits, Kerrang and Q. Another media istitution that might distribute my product is IPC Media and this is because it is UK’s leading consumer magazine and digital publisher with a massive portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Also because it has over 85 iconic print brands. I have chosen IPC Media to distribute my magazine as it has partneship with the big branded supermarkets, so this can widen my target audience as it will be more freely available in the supermakets.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

• I wanted to portray my target audience in a way that breaks the classic stereotype without associating 16-18 year old with drugs, violence , crime or swearing, because not all tennagers and young adults are like that and i belive that my magazine helps to aspire young artists to follow their dreams and help others to get motivated byreading other young artist’s success stories and leading them to become hard working and a completly individual and different persons. This magazine is for the people who are interested in increasing their knowledge about rap artists.

How did you attract/address your audience?

• I actract my audience in different ways. Firstly by using a banner that says «world’s best selling rap magazine» . This is attracts the people are interested in rap and makes you want to buy it even more. Another thing that attracted my audience was the fact that i used names of different rappers and this would attract people who know the artists. The model on my cover looks young therefor i’m trying to attract tennage. The clothes are also a way of atracting someone’s attention. The person could be interested in what he is wearing .

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

• By doing this task i’ve learnt how to use different websites such as Blogger and SlideShare. It was my first time using this two new things and i always like to learn something new to expand my knowledge. I also expanded my knowledge in using photoshop which was one of the main program for my magazine production. Using photoshop i learnt how to edit images, create different effects to make the magazine look more professional. These different technologie provide me with various techniques and resourses that helped me to complete my media product. I also learnd how to take pictures propely.

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

• Looking back at my preliminary task, i feel that i’ve learnt a lot from this experience . I’ve leard how to develope a magazine from the bottom like, what social groups certain magazine appeal to and why, how to attract a specific audience, it was just depth of research and planning in order to make my magazine successful. I have developed my knowledge on many and understanding on different aspects. I’ve learnd how to use Adobe Photoshop, how to use a blog, update posts, create pages, how to upload presentations onto slideshare, learnd how to save images in photoshop in in the correct format.