Hip hop music magazine evaluation

 1)   In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product? 

My music magazine comparing to other music magazine	Use	Develop	Challenge
my front cover page                                                     music magazine cover	The things that I used comparing to other magazine front cover page are mostly the way the font Is bold and also the colours. As I thought that would make my magazine look very professional and stand out. As the colour red for the font really stands outs and the creates a excellent effect on the magazine. The picture made the poses look more like hip hop.	The things I developed will include adding background to the text, so the font will stand out more on the page also so the magazine doesn't look very dull and have lots of bright colours. This will also link in with the idea of my target audience will want more bright colours on any type of teenage magazine	Putting everything in a different position and adding different colours to make the magazine stand out from the rest of the magazine. These colours include, black, white, red, blue and pink.
my content page                                                  magazine content page	Used the idea of adding different picture on to the page and the layout of the text on the page, also used some of the idea of putting the headline on to a background shape, as I used a  black rectangle shape to be the background of the headline.	Putting the pictures in a different position instead of putting them together also used Variety of colours and made the page very eye-catching as there were lots of different colours included. There are lots of information included what is going to be included in the magazine. It say “comin up” and not content, makes it very different to others.	Cropped out one of the image to make it different to other, not all the images have background on them. This shows I challenged other magazine I used as a example and made it very different. Also I made the text go across the page, to make it very eye-catching and clear as it uses background as well.
my double page spread                      Magazine double page spread	For the double page I used the layout of the text from other magazine, as it is all placed in a specific way and also this makes the page look very neat. i used the idea of highlighting the main question to make it stand out more on the page  I also used the idea of putting quote right next to the image, which makes it look very important as it is a different colour.	Things that I developed include adding lots of bright colour to the text to make it stand out more on the page. Adding background to the page and not just leaving it plan white	Putting the image is on both pages instead of just placing it on one page and also put the text on top of the image and made it stand out. Adding a good effect on the headline to stand out more on the page and also made it very eye-catching.

    2)  How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

  

  I chose person from as young more of gangster social group to be my role model of the magazine. So it link in

  with the idea of the hip hop genre of music and also will give a good effect on the magazine.

  

  The mise-en-scene used

  Posture – I make sure my model artist for the music magazine is standing up and has a good posture which

  gives the audience a good effect about the magazine and the artist. The artist is looking forward, directly at the

  camera, that show attention towards the audience.

   

  Framing – the framing of the images that I used for my music magazine, is very loose as the artist has a

  comfortable space as I used a medium shots as we can see most parts of the body

  

  Pose – Made sure that the poses all links in with the idea of hip hop and also made sure that the entire image

  has a good attitude to represent the hip hop music.

  Examples of these poses that I took 

  

  Finical expression –  made sure that they the artist has the

  attitude on the face to represent hip hop and the attitude

  behind the music that give a good affect on the magazine.

  Costume – t-shirt, with skinny jeans, making sure that is

  suited to the idea of hip hop

  

  Location – the location that I chose my images to be

  taken is at my house, with a blank white background

  

  Props – microphone to make the artist look like they are singing, which also links in with the idea of music

  artist, headphones. 

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

  Media institutions that will distribute my media product:

 Bauer media:

This is because it reaches over 19 million UK adults across multiply media and adding a hip-hop music

magazine will increase the amount of adults reading Bauer’s media product.

Also because Bauer media has a no hip-hop music magazines on their market, but instead have magazine such as smash hits, Kerrang and Q

So adding a different type of music genre will increase the amount of people reading Bauer’s media product as
it has a worldwide circulation for selling 38 million copies a week in 15 countries.

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Bauer Media also has Bauer radio which consists of Heat radio, Q radio, smash Hits! Radio and the hits radio

will are available on DAB and free view. So having a hip hop magazine may encourage them to start a radio

station which broadcast hip-hop music in order for Bauer to increase the number of people viewing their media

via magazine and radio so increase their sales overall. 

 

The genre of the magazine as it is hip hop it Is very suited for the music magazine that I  was capable of doing , as my target audience chose hip hop as one of their best genre that they enjoy most from the rest. (My questionnaire results will show this)

As my audience was young teenage girls everything including the image and the colours on the page gives a good representation of the music magazine to the audience that I was targeting. 

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

For my magazine I have chosen the young teenager girls as my audience, as there are the most people who love and enjoy reading magazine. Especially a music magazine will be one of the most favorite magazines of my target audience. They enjoy music more and hip hop is something that is a great genre for every teenagers.

This is a audience profile that I done for my magazine to show that target audience of my hip hop music magazine.

This includes lots of information about the audience. For example these will be the type of shops that teenage girls would go to and lots more.

Everything that is included in the reader’s profile:

Teenager young girl’s favorite genres of music are mostly hip     hop, indie, alternative rock

Spend a lot of time studying

Enjoy being with friends, listening to music, going to parties and reading books

Go parties

Care a lot about the way they look

Favorites shop includes h&m, new look and next

Going to 6^th form and collages

40% are going part time jobs
60% full time studying

5)      How did you attract/address you audience?

The ways that I attract the audience include the different colours that the magazine is used; it’s very attractive as it links in with the idea of young teenage girls are more into different and bright colours.

These colours that the magazine mostly uses include: yellow, type of gold colour, black, white and more 
The fonts are very bold and stand out, as the colour red on the headline on front page, the content page and the double page spread looks very attractive all over the magazine

There also other text that was included on the magazine, which had Variety of fonts and colours that will attract my target audience as the main information’s will stand out more
The poses gives a hip hop effect on all the images that I used for the magazine as it shows the audience that they would expect those type of poses on the image, when looking at a hip hop music magazine.

The text are very bold and links with other type of hip hop magazine text that we will expect to see, the fonts are very clear and easy to read, has bright colours which makes it stand out on the pages for example the text on the double page spread.

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

Throughout the process of making music magazine I have learnt many new skills which I will be using in later life. As I am not the best of all at using technology, doing this task helped me expand my knowledge and get a brief idea of how to use the programs, edit and enhance images and successfully produce a good hip hop magazine which appeal to my target audience, young teenage girls.

Photoshop the main technology that I used to make all my pages

I learned a lot about this technology and the ways to use Photoshop through the process of designing my music magazine and learnt how to use most of the tools that will help me to create the pages.

These include

These include

• The marquee tool - move the picture from one page to another, or one position to another
• The move tool 
• The lasso tool 
• The magic wand tool selects similarly colored area
• The crop tool trims images
• The eraser tool 
• The type tools create type on an image- create my headline, the text 
• The shape tools and line tool 
• The paint bucket tool - fills similarly colored areas with the foreground colour, add colours to everything 

cropped by using the lasso tool, the magic wand tool and also the eraser tool to get rid of the background and used lots of different Photoshop technique to build up the images to a good position

Other tools used

I also used online resources to work my way through the Photoshop for example looked up on YouTube some tips to get started with photoshop and the way to use some of the tools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRqZiAgoHo

Found out some tip on what all the tool are for by:

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/tools.html

Using the amazing professional camera I learned a lot 

of taking quality images, the camera was a privilege, 

I have always loved taking images, I got to explore the 

world of photography, with the use of my prior

 knowledge such as high and low different camera angles, 

shots, key lighting. 

ICT skills- by doing this task I was able to build up my ICT skills, and used different websites such as “blogger” using a blog was new experience for me and also something that helps me expand my knowledge and brings a new challenge. Blogger allowed me to make posts and create pages expressing my work in new        forms of media such as uploading presentations and by using slideshare,

 I could embed the PowerPoint like the ones on my blog.

  7)      Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (technical skills, genre and media language)

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel that this experience was a work in process, from which I learnt many new skills throughout and developed my understanding and my current knowledge about the production of music magazine and the everything that behind of making a excellent magazine. Also I learned about the social group certain magazine appeal to and why, how to attract a specific audience through the research and planning I had to do at the beginning of this task, in order to make my music magazine successful.

I have taken on board feedback from others, which I got after making the school magazine, and given out questionnaires for my research on music magazine, I believe I have  progressed a long way, in the completing of my finished media products. I  also have a stronger knowledge and understanding an programs such as Adobe Photoshop Cs3, and I know how to update my blog, and edit new post and create pages also, I also know how to upload works. 

Some of the knowledge I developed include:

       A development understanding on how to use Adobe Photoshop   

·  Learnt how to use blogger, create, update, upload

·  How to use a professional camera

·  Learned how to upload presentation on to slideshare and upload to blogger 

 ·  How to use survey monkey to get my questionnaire published