Thursday 5 May 2011
Evaluation Question 7 .
Looking back on my preliminary task, I believe has made a big improvement throughout my progression to complete my full product. As creating and completing the preliminary task allowed my develop my skills and improve the majorly to a higher standard to where I am confident to use Photoshop and pages without assistants .By creating the prelim I was able to experience how the software worked and was able to progressed my skills to a professional level . I feel that my final completion of my music magazine is a great piece as it relates to a real life magazine and as I was inspired by many other magazines that I felt were eye catching I believe I was able to make a eye catching magazine that highlighted everything need to make a good outcome .by using many different codes and conventions that u was unable to do whilst making my prelim as I was inexperienced . I am extremely pleased with my music magazine as I think that I s eye catching and attracts the right target audience .The only thing I would change would be to add some more jewelery onto the models to make them look more urban rather than classy
Evaluation Question 5 .
Through doing my research and planning of building my magazine and having my magazine published, I was able to look how many different magazines were published, distributed and delivered to many different audiences in many different ways. Many urban magazines I found were based online such as:
• Yorap
• Flavour
• Singersroom
Looking at a variety of many different online urban magazines I was able to see that most of their websites promote a lot of merchandise, rather than promoting other new hip-hop artist. However looking at printed magazines sold in local stores I found had a website that wasn’t very appealing to it viewers so they would influence their readers to buy the magazine in person, rather than using the internet to catch up with the magazine. I believe that it is good idea to produce a website to for readers to log on to now and then, to catch up with out of date copies of the magazine if they couldn’t afford to buy the magazine that week. Having a website was also allow readers to have unlimited access to the latest thing going on in the magazine. I would like to have my magazine retailed in local newsagents and big supermarkets, such as Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s. I also think it’s a good idea to have my magazine advertised and sold in music shops such as HMV , as it sales a variety of music selection including my own genre so whilst in a music shop such as HMV your able to collect the latest style magazine that connects to your favorite genre . I also thought I would be a good idea to have my magazine retailed in stores such as footlocker and JD sports as I believe the promote a sort of urban dress style which is also portrayed in my magazine. The idea I had was when I personally saw the magazine flavor being distributed freely in footlocker and as magazine and flavor are along the same lines of topics, I thought it would be a good way to distribute my media product. I think it would be helpful if my music magazine was promoted at local raves and clubs that play my sort of genre of music promoted in my magazine
Evaluation Question 4 .
I believe that this question 4 was the most important question, as it was the main aspect as producing my music magazine. Throughout my music magazine I was representing the particular social group of my age group. In my magazine I hoped to represent a exciting , fun audience .To produce this convention I used informal vocabulary that I believe relates to the social group I have intended to present my magazine too .
I also used a variation of colours to make the magazine bright bold and vibrant to keep the reader interested.
I decided to relate to the local teenagers in my community , I wanted to create a magazine that would promote a social community that are friendly and encouraging of new talent .I believe that models in my magazines attract the particular social group that I have decided to attract . They have achieved this as by the clothing they are wearing, such as smart casual which doesn’t include the classic 'hood' look. By the models wearing the clothes they are wore I believe they have made a larger audience be attracted to the magazine as they have grins on their face it makes the magazine look friendly and socialable. Also the dress sense is very clean and tidy promoting the right dress type of a pimp style R&B Hip-Hop music video.
And lastly the price of the magazine promotes the magazine to young students as it affordable for a low student income, encouraging them to buy the magazine. Also the free £5 HMV voucher entices the reader to buy the magazine, as young people are in too music and freebies.
Evaluation Question 2 .
By haven chosen to produce a music magazine containing the music genre of Hip-Hop and R&B I was able to develop many different codes and conventions that are also contained in a real music magazine I was able to used this feature as doing research I was able to Articulate various ideas that are used in a real life magazine such as promotions , advertising , information , gossip etc . By constructing my music magazine and using the music genre of R&B I referred my magazine to a typical afro- Caribbean magazine which are usually involved and circulated around that sort of population. Also by including a glamorous male alongside to females artist I have constructed a magazine for both genders which is similar to other magazine although they usually only have one main artist on the front cover. This also makes the magazine more diverse. Other Codes and convention I used was the basics that must be on / in a magazine such as: a barcode, issued date, images, headlines and a masthead.
Evaluation Question 1 .
Music Vibe is the latest top charted magazine in the stores, attracting a wide range of boys and girls aged 16-19, featuring the new fresh hottest talent of the hip hop and funky fresh R&B top titles . The sort of articles found in this magazine will include: interviews, top ten download lists, new fresh Djs, up and coming artist and hot spots for clubs to attend to hear the fresh sound of the streets. The different articles will interest the reader as the main reason they may want to read on as the magazine will be focus on diversion and surveillance allowing them not to be bore-d by everyday life .I believe that theses sections will attract my target audience as it is what a 16-19 year old would be encouraged and engaged to read about. I believe that many of my readers shall be students in either in college or in university. Proven that their income shan’t be very high reasoning being I have decided to put the price of my magazine at £2.00.Ibelieve that this is a reasonable price for a music magazine and as most student may have a part time job I don’t think that £2 is a lot of their own allowance each month . My audience shall be able to access music and hot spots reviews highlighted inside the magazine where they will be able to download and listen to the music featured online and also on specific music channels and on the radio. I believe that with the students extra cash they may spend their money on music (cds, albums iTunes) and headphones and other electrical appliances. In their spare time they may go out to latest clubs and hot spots for fresh talented artists, or downloading music and reading about the latest top artist that has some new fresh luscious lyrics. In my magazine I believe that things that may be advertised in my magazine is fresh funky clothing designed by talented street artist , new cds , trainers and special offers in local music stores such as Hmv and sound space .
Evaluating Production Work
This snap shot of the front cover image is showing where i have edited my first image in photoshop . and using different tools and filters to create a different effect on the image
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