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Evaluation question 1

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

My work does look like a music magazine as it uses some of the main conventions associated with a music magazine especially one of its genre for example I used appropriate sell lines and a masthead for my productions.. I tried to use a colour scheme that would be appropriate and appeal to them. This is why I used grey black, red and white in order to make the writing on the sell lines and masthead stand out when the public view it. As a result my magazine does convert to magazine conventions as there's no point changing that as the magazine might end up not looking like a music magazine, so it is better to conform to the conventions as they are so effective on other magazines and it's what has made them so successful in the past.

However, to an extend my magazine does challenge conventions as the inclusion of a female model, especially for a DPS. This genre is widely male dominated so it would be unusual to feature a female as the main focus. Hopefully this would help gain me more female readers.

Using other magazines as influence for my magazine was helpful as it provides a template for the layout of your magazine. This also helps it fit into the music genre of rap along with the use of the models as if used models that would appeal to the demographic. The photography is kind of stereotypical when it comes to rap artist, due to the fact it features typical costume props and archtype/stocktype characters. This was done in order to appeal to the audience and perform better in the market. Subverting to formulaic styles of rap important as what they've done has been successful for them and you would want your magazine also to be successful. The mise en scene is critical as people are often attracted to an artist on how the look so it is an important element to consider during photography process as this can determine whether or not people would buy your magazine or not. I went with the typical hoodie and snapback with my models that are mainly associated with artists of this genre so that the audience can relate this to other magazines and have a first assumption that this magazine is like other they've read before and maybe better.

Final Products

Contents page Draft

After receiving feedback from the class and teacher i decided to change the contents page as i felt it wasn't good enough and they confirmed my feelings. I think i was trying to hard to make it look unique that i made it look bad so after amending these changes this it how it looks now

Contents page drafting 2

Firstly, I started working on the design and layout. I tried to imitate the contents page as seen on XXL magazine as their layout was very effective in the way information was displayed easily.

Secondly i started working on the text, the most important being the 'featured' section. This is done in bold and in bigger font as you want to attract the readers attention immediately. then after that i adhered to the same font and colour scheme like many conventional magazines do but in smaller font in comparison to the featured section.

Finally its about adding the o,age to finalise the page. The overall draft can be subject to change but this is how it looks like for now.

Front cover Draft

After receiving feedback i knew that i had to alter how the front cover looked and also realised how i made some mistakes and how i needed to stick with my colour scheme so i changed the background and to keep the black, red and white colour scheme like i have been doing all along. I've also changed the sell lines to make them more appealing to the demographic audience. I also changed the image of the model(show more of it) to make the front cover overall better.

Magazine DPS draft

After more feedback, this is what i've gotten as a result after I swapped the models around.

DPS pictures evidence

The are the new pictures i stuck with after deciding to change the models and use the female model for the DPS and the other male model for the Contents page

Front Cover drafting stages

 First stages working on mashead, price, thinking about layering and what will go where in the space.

 Firstly image editing to see which one would fit better.Eventually chose black and white as it  went well with the colour scheme of the sell lines.

Adding the sell lines so it adheres to the conventions of a magazine. 

Finished product after adding extra stuff

DPS Dragting stages

Firstly I decided to start of with the image as that is the main focal point on double page spreads. I kept the image black and white to maintain the constant theme throughout the pages

The I began working on the title.  As i stated earlier i went with 'rise To Success' as the main theme in magazines of this genre is overcoming adversity or poverty to become a success unexpectedly. The use of a female model can further emphasise how unexpected this is as usually this genre is male dominated.

Next I added the text. To adher to the conventions there is the pulled quote and a Drop capital to make it look more like a trailer.

Contents page pictures re shoot

Since the original pictures were not great, i  decided to do a reshoot with the model so that i could produce better quaility pictures. These are just a few of the shots i took.

Magazine Audience Research

Front Cover Draft

Contents page draft

Magazine DPS draft

Front cover pictures evidence

Front conver analysis

 As you can see both magazines use big font sizes to make their text stand out and only the important bits are big as the reader only needs to read them to decide whether they want to buy the magazine and read on or just move along so the choice of words are very important.

 These two front cover images are mid-shots two well known artists in the hip hop genre. The colour scheme used is quite similar as black white and red seem to be mostly associated with music in this genre. The three colours help each other stand out and easier to read.

Both the images seem to go over the masthead in both magazines but these are well established rap magazines and people will be well aware of what it says.

Both models are facing the camera which is a main convention of magazine in general which is good and it is important not to go against these conventions. The banner at the top helps draw in readers as it provides additional information that they might find useful and may influence their decision in buying the magazine or not.

It is important not to disregard any of these conventions as they will affect how people percieve your magazine and whether or not they will buy it or not.

Magazine Contents Page draft stages

  To start of i tried working on the image first to try and make it simpler. I created a copy of the image after using the "lasso" tool to cut away the edges and opted to go for this back-to-back effect using the same model

Next i tried to place an effect at the edges of the magazine similar to the DPS to keep the same colour scheme. Also i decidd that the
"features" and "contents" should stand out so only used special font from dafont.com for this on this page.

And now the finished draft.

Magazine DPS first Draft

Magazine DPS pictures development

Contents DPS pictures that might be used for the finished product

Magazine DPS development stage

This is how i hope my Dps will look like and the image with the model will be added in later to suit the layout and how it looks. The title  "the beginning " represents that the artist is new and it is virtually the beginning of their carreer.

Magazine logo development pencil sketch

These are sketches of the magazine logo design that i hope to have on my magazine pages. Since the magazine is called " Illuminate" I have tried to incorporate the letters "I" and the letter "M" or word " Mag" like many magazine do that.

Masthead designs pencil sketch

These are some of the masthead designs i designed for my magazine, these pencil sketches allow me to see how this would look like if i pit it on my actually magazine later but it will need development on photoshop

Contents page analysis

Front cover analysis

Two contents pages comparison

These two magazine contents pages represent two different genres so it makes it earlier to compare them in many ways.
Both of these magazines use an image of a model but the difference is that in the kerrang magazine has more that one model and more than one picture. This is a feature you find in all kerrang magazines as they tend to feature many artists where as XXL magazine mainly features one.
Also, the kerrang magazine has a variety of colours as it's target market is more diverse compared to the other magazine as its target market is much smaller, not many adults listen to hip-hop music.
The layout is different in both magazines, in the kerrang magazine, the contents page is more of a double page spread where as the XXL magazine's contents page is only on one page. which is more conventional for their type of magazine
The kerrang magazine features, promotional features at times with competitions to win tickets to a concert where as you would associate that time of thing with the XXL magazine.

Rap magazine contents page analysis

XXL magazine have gone for a red and black colour scheme for their contents page  as they feel that it best represents their genre and their magazine. The cover story stands out as a result which is helpful to the readers.

The image used is of two rappers standing back to back and they only used one image compared to other magazines which is iconic to only to XXL magazine.

The most important page numbers are larger to get readers to notice them and by making it as simplistic as this, it makes it easily accessible to the audience to as it allows them to easily find what they are looking for.

There is no pulled quote so it misses one of the elements a magazine should have and a pulled quote is effective as it can lure the reader to find out more things like thoughts and feelings of the audience.

The magazine logo is at the bottom and at the top right of the context page. The one at the top stands out more as it would be one of the first thing the audience will notice as they read from the top left to right, and the one at the bottom is generic many magazines as they all usually put it there along side their websites.

The font and layout adheres to the house style  of the magazine as it is big and bold and mainly one colour black, in fact black is the most dominate colour in the magazine maybe to represent the majority of their target market even though they don't call it out, the images, words and font they used shows who they expoect their target market to be. There is no letter from the editor as XXL magazine do not usually do this .