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Question 3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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Friday, 27 January 2017
Question 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Q7.
Overall I think
I have improved greatly via the quality of my final magazine as well in terms
of photography and journalism. Also, I believe I learnt new ways to improve the
professionalism of my magazine by developing skills through the process, and
learning from mistakes and things I didn’t like on my college magazine front
cover and contents.
F Front Cover
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With my preliminary task, I had a large issue
with spacing, layout and colouring. The colour scheme I had chosen did not fit
well with the styling of the cover artist, which led to it blending into the
hair, and her clothing. This was one issue I was keen to avoid, and was one of
my 3 points of improvement I highlight in my college mag evaluation. From this
I focused on improving the cover-lines and trying to find ways to make it stand
out and not blend into the cover artist or the background – This time when
doing the cover-lines I added black boxes behind the main cover-lines to ensure
it stood out and caught the audience’s eye. I also added a drop shadow behind
the rest of the writing to make it stand out and prevent it from blending in –
although I somewhat had a similar issue with it not standing out I think I
definitely improved this time and learnt how to deal with this issue due to it
occurring on my preliminary task. + More thought was put into the contents of
the cover –line s- journalism improved and was shorter as that is conventional
+ draws in readers
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Another issue that occurred with my front cover
on my preliminary task was the structuring and layout of the cover-lines. On my
college magazine they were very messy, and placed anywhere that they would fit
– they were not aligned at all. When making my real magazine I attempted to
align all of the cover-lines to avoid the front cover looking very messy – all
but one of my cover-lines were aligned as during the process of creating the
final magazine I discovered that Photoshop has green lines that help you to
align cover-lines from both sides – this gave my final magazine a much more
structured and professional look then my college magazine
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I chose to use a colour scheme which stood out
more e.g. gold rather than a darker blue to catch the eye of the audience +
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Another thing I improved on was the placement of
the typical conventions of a magazine such as the barcode, the strapline,
website and edition name. With the college magazine I place the website,
edition name and number and price where it seemed to fit and it wasn’t in the
typical places – making my preliminary magazine unconventional and messy in
this aspect. With the real magazine I organised in a way that was conventional
– I placed the issue number and price with the barcode, and put the magazine
website under the masthead so only the strapline was on top. I also took out
the puff as I found that was unconventional of a hip hop magazine + when making
the college magazine I had difficulty finding somewhere to place it so it ended
up being awkwardly placed in the middle; I did not want this issue again with
the front cover
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In regards to photography + mise-en-scene, the
quality of the photos used has improved greatly. For my college magazine I used
an IPhone 6 camera and any available white background to take my front cover
image – however when taking my real magazine photos I used a professional
photography studio and a proper DLSR Camera – this because over the course I
acquired the skills of how to use these, to give my real magazine photographs a
more professional. I also took a wider range of photographs when making my real
magazine whereas with my college magazine the pictures use were taken in one
shot
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With the mise-en-scene, I put more thought into
the photo for the real one. With my college magazine image the picture was very
dull and basic and there was no aspects of a USP – I hadn’t thought about the
styling and clothing props of my model and just gave a folder to connote the
school genre. Her expression was very typical – a smile, her clothing hadn’t
been styled to fit the genre and there wasn’t anything that stood out. With the
real magazine I took measures to ensure that the mise-en-scene was properly
styled and more eye-catching. I chose conventions more appropriate for the
genre and had a wider variety of pose. Unlike with the college mag, I made sure
my front cover star wasn’t smiling as that’s more traditional of the genre and
that she was head-on so that we could clearly get the direct mode –of-address.
Her pose and styling again, was styled to represent the genre. She wore chains,
hoops, watches etc to connote the hip hop genre – more thought was put into
connoting the genre – her make –up styling also – more darker and fierce to
connote her personality more – in college mag personality wasn’t considered –
background plain, no other things can be seen in it unlike with the college mag
where you can see plugs and other colour so the background – ensured
professionalism in this mag as I only noticed the other things in the college
mag after
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I think I managed to achieve the goals I had set
myself in the evaluation to a good extent – not fully but I definitely improved
from the college mag
Contents Page
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Firstly, my real magazine contents page was
double paged as I felt that it would give me more space to add images and headers
as I did not add this in my college magazine and that was one of the 3 points I
wanted to improve on
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With my college magazine I didn’t include any
headers to indicate what the articles were e.g. were they features or regulars
and because of this they weren’t very organised other than the numbering – with
my music magazine I put sections for features and regulars and put articles
that fit underneath them, this made the contents more professional and
organised in this aspect – made sure the writing was aligned as in the college
mag one of the contents explanations ran over and intertwined with another
sentence and it was hard to tell where the sentence stopped/started.
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When making my college magazine, the titles of
the articles weren’t emphasised a lot, they were only made in a bigger text –
for my actual magazine I changed the colour to emphasis it more
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With the pictures, I again used an IPhone 6
camera for the college one whereas in the real one I used a professional
camera. I also focused more on the location of the pictures this time – with
the college magazine the images were all inside a school and all the models had
similar expressions and poses so it wasn’t inventive however with the real
magazine one I chose a wide range of locations to take the pictures on so it
looked better and more professional as well as had the models pose in different
ways to represent the artist they were playing as that is how it would be in a
real magazine – also with the page numbers on the pictures I added a box behind
them and made it slightly transparent to make the page numbers clearer as I
found with the college magazine the page numbers slightly blended in with the
backgrounds of the pictures. Adding on, I made sure the styling of my models
fit the genre and focused on what they were wearing whereas with the college
mag I didn’t.
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Regarding
the conventions of a contents, organised the conventional items such as the
website, page numbers and issue date properly. I made the website name and page
number smaller as that is more conventional, and looks more professional –
looking at the college mag, having the website that big didn’t look
professional - added pull quotes and editor’s letter to make it look more
professional and add on to conventions of a contents page as my college one was
quite basic in this aspect and didn’t add these conventions
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Spacing wise, it was still quite cramped on the
real magazine even though this is something I particularly wanted to improve on
– was one of my three points to make it sized where they can fit easily –
didn’t really manage to achieve this but it still worked out and writing /
images didn’t overlap
Question 6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- Photoshop
Previously I had not used Photoshop before
so this was an entirely new experience for me. I did find it difficult when
starting out however I was able to hone my skills during the process of
creating my music magazine. I worked out how to use different aspects of
Photoshop to create different effects with the picture, such as the effect of
having the cover star in front of the masthead, creating the cover-lines and
moving them around to fit and align with the other ones and more. Over the
course of creating the college magazine to the music magazine, I became more
comfortable on Photoshop and was able to use it effectively, although sometimes
I would create mistakes.
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InDesign
Like Photoshop, I had previously never used
InDesign so it was again, a new experience for me. Through the process of using
InDesign I believe I managed to gain good working skills however, I did find
that it was a difficult software to use. I managed to learn how to create
pull-quotes, drop caps and work around to create a nice layout. However there
were things I found tricky, such as with the pictures, there were two separate
boxes that came up which did different things therefore I sometimes got
confused on which one did which meaning that I would incorrectly shape my image
and have to go back which could cause frustration. I found the layout easier
than Photoshop.
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Illustrator
Illustrator was also a new software I had
never used before. I didn’t use it as much through this process as I had
decided to create a simple masthead on Photoshop, rather than a detailed but
did manage to learn some things through the trial in the classroom and also
when using it to create a signature for the editor’s letter – I did this using
the pen. I learnt how to create new designs in terms of masthead such as
blocking out holes from letters by ‘creating pathways’ as well as adding a
‘textured background’ to text. Although I didn’t use any of these for my final
magazine masthead I managed to experiment with them and see if I liked it, as
well as pick up the skills I now have.
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DSLR
Camera + Photography Studio
This was my first time using a proper
camera, and working in an actual photography studio so I was basically
unfamiliar to everything. Through the introductory lesson we had where we were
taught how to use the DSLR Camera, the 3 point lighting system and how to
adjust both to our liking, I managed to have a simple understanding of how to
use the studio. My skills and knowledge have definitely developed from where
they had been before, as I know how to work with the 3-point system in terms of
adjusting it with lighting etc – and also had the experience of working in a
proper studio with a camera that I could adjust to make my pictures of a high
standard.
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Prezi
This was my first time using the software
Prezi, and it was an extremely helpful + good one. The creative but simple
aspect of the software has enable me to be able to use it to my best ability
and create visually pleasing, informative presentations.
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Cincopa
Again, this was my first time using this
program. I had some issues with the program as the pictures weren’t loading, or
being saved into galleries due to the file type and I was not able to properly
embed it onto the blog with all of the pictures. However, I managed to learn
how to us it, and it started working in time for me to put it on my blog so I
now know how to use this software.
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ThingLink
Thing-Link was a software I hadn’t used
before but became very fond of. It was very easy for me to learn how to use it
as the layout of the website was very straight-forward and everything was
placed in a way I could use easily so it was easy to develop my skills of this
software; even the process of embedding was very easy for me on this sire. This
program allowed me to specifically focus on details of what I was analysing,
and make my points/thoughts detailed but concise so I like this website a lot.
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Blogger
Blogger was easy to adapt to, so learning how
to use it was not difficult, and I had a basic understanding of how to use it
beforehand. The only thing that caused me to develop new skills on this
software was learning how to embed things onto my blog, how to fit images onto
a blog post so that it was organised and little hacks to organise my blog posts
better. I learnt how to embed videos, documents and other software’s such as
google slides.
Question 5) How did you attract/address your audience?
Q5
Photography/Models
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“Your images are also really nice and contrast
well with the colour scheme” – Sharay (Contents Page) -
Genre
I decided to make my genre hip hop and r&b with the
sub-genres and a global element of grime and others to attract my target
audience as these are genres I enjoy, and I know people who I surround myself
with also enjoy, and we would be a part of my target audience therefore it
would directly attract and relate to their interests.
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“It looks like a Hip Hop music magazine from a
glance” – Antonia (Front Cover) – attracted my audience as my magazine is aimed at
hip hop and R&B fans, so by designing it to obviously highlight the genre,
it will catch my audience’s eye among other magazines and will lead them to
want to read it.
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“This looks like a real Hip Hop music magazine”
– Antonia (Contents Page) –(same as above)
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“See the features and the regulars like XXL” –
Antonia (Contents Page) – the familiarity of typical conventions of a hip hop magazine
on my magazine attracted my audience as they could clearly see that it was a
hip hop magazine
Contents
Layout
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“This contents page is very well laid out” –
Ruben (Contents Page)
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“The layout is neat and formal” – Sharay
(Contents Page)
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“The layout is really nice” – Sharay (DPS)
Colour Scheme
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“I like how your cover star contrasts with your
colour scheme making stand out from the typography and background” – Sharay
(Front Cover) –
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“I like how the colour scheme is also continued
into your contents page”- Sharay (Contents Page) – Tried to attract the audience by
keeping the colour scheme consistent on the contents page, so there is a sense
of familiarity + makes the magazine look professional as its as if the colour
scheme represents the HU$TLE brand (like how XXL keeps the red, white and
black)
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“ I like how the colour scheme exposed the
magazine to both genders” – Laily (Front Cover) – I attracted both genders of my
magazine successfully, as it has been pointed out that the colour scheme
attracts males and females, which is what I had aimed to do, as my magazine is
aimed at females but also wants a male reading – since most magazines are aimed
and read more my males, having my colour scheme attract both genders to fit in
with my audience is a main point.
Editing
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“Your
signature which makes the contents page look professional” – Sharay (Contents
Page) – by
adding the extra conventions of a magazine, such as the signature, I added to
the sense of professionalism in the contents page which would attract my audience
as it looks like a real magazine (along with the social media links,
subscription price etc.)
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“It looks so good and very appealing to the
eyes” – Monika (Front Cover) – Again, the editing has made it look good and like an actual
magazine, which attracts my audience.
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“It looks very professional” – Emanuel (Front
Cover)
Typography
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“Masthead is effective as it is positioned
behind your cover star” – Sharay (Front Cover) – Attracts my audience as then
my cover star is able to stand-out and catch
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“I like how your cover star contrasts with your
colour scheme making stand out from the typography and background” – Sharay
(Front Cover) -
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“I also like how you have highlighted specific
words its very effective” – Sharay (DPS) – the manipulation of my typography
seemed to attract my audience, as they weren’t drawn to the highlighted words,
which was my aim.
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“Your pull quotes are also effective and make
your magazine look professional” – Sharay (DPS)
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“Like that the questions are capitalised and in
a different colour” – Sharay (DPS) - the manipulation of my typography seemed to attract
my audience, as they weren’t drawn to the highlighted words, which was my aim.
Question 4) Who would be the audience for your media product?
Q4.
Age:
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My audience will be around the age range 16 -25,
so will still be students.
Musical
Taste:
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HU$TLE readers will primarily be fans of hip hop
and R&B music, and most of the sub-genres that come underneath it. I’ve
tailored the contents and mise-en-scene of the magazine to be aimed at this
audience, for example the artists listed on the front cover are all from the
genres hip hop and R&B, or sub-genres of it therefore it will attract fans
of that. Also, the contents featured in the contents page and images all
connote the genres of hip hop and R&B – ‘the rise of trap’ (a sub-genre of
hip hop), the new songs that would be in the ‘End Of Issue Playlist’ would all
be from those genres – and the artists displayed and costumes they’re wearing
e.g. chains, puffer jackets etc all connote the genre -
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However, my audience would have a wider musical
taste and wouldn’t have a focus on western music – they would like global
sectors of hip hop and R&B such as Korean Hip Hop and R&B-(I chose to include these as currently
KHH has become popular with lots of KHH artists visiting the UK and getting
sold out shows so I know it is a genre that is currently represented has an audience
of people with said music tastes in my target location), Grime (which is
based in the UK and since my magazine is base din the UK it will reflect my
audience’s tastes) and so on – shown through ‘The British Invasion’ + ‘Around
The Globe’ segment
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Enjoy Mixes of different genres as well
Location:
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As the genres are hip hop and R&B my readers
will most likely come from cities and urban areas therefore they will mostly be
based in different parts of London, especially since Grime is a factor in my magazine.
However, as I have aimed my audience internationally as well, there will be a
small percentage that come from areas outside of the UK such as America but
they will still be from urbanized areas as that’s where hip hop and R&B is
most popular + my magazine audience is largely black therefore a large amount
of my audience will come from areas with a large black demographic. Hip Hop is
a very globalised genre so large amounts of people internationally will be
interested in the magazine, therefore there may not be a specific location but
if so, it will be the ones I mentioned
Social Class:
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Although my magazine does not have a specific
social class audience, I believe that most of my readers would be from a
working class background due to their age + location and ethnicity. Also, due
to the low price of my magazine as well as low price for subscription I have
included elements to specifically make it in some ways target towards a working
class, student audience.
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From Fader’s Case Study I found that 91% of
their readers were employed, with 77% dull time and 14% part – time. My
audience’s part time percentage would most likely be higher as they are
students so will have school and not have time to work full time – overall
mainly working class (E group as they are students and casual workers)
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Some may be from the skilled (C2) + lower middle
classes (C1) however (mainly the ones at age 25)
Ethnicity:
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HU$TLE’s audience would most likely be from a
black ethnic background as hip hop is predominately listened to by this
audience + the people featured in the magazine are black however, I did not
want to exclusively target it towards only black people as it is a very widely
recognised genre now and by aiming it at one audience it would be closing off
other business opportunities therefore I included contents that attract other
ethnicities and artists that are of different ethnicities –because of this my
audience would have a mixed ethnicity – such as with XXL’s press pack , 67% of
their readers were African American but 19% were Hispanic and 18% white – My
percentages of audience are similar to this
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UK is very multicultural so I think lots of
different ethnicities could read it
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I would bring in more of an Asian audience as
well as KHH is becoming big and hip hop is big in areas like east Asia –
‘included an around the globe segment on south Korea + jay park album review’
Gender:
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I aimed to target HUSTLE at more of a female
audience as there are not many hip hop magazines who do this since hip hop is
male dominated – I did this by the use of a female cover star and contents that
highlighted females - ‘female artists segment’ - currently females are coming
up in the hip hop industry and lots of female r&b artists e.g. kehlani.
Have recently become popular so it shows there is a growing interest from the
female audience in the genres
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55% male reading and 45% female reading – still
want to bring in male readers to profit off of it
Audience
Lifestyle/Overall Profile:
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Target Audience’s Psychographics – aspirer
(materialistic, big focus on a ‘persona’ and fashion (reason for the ‘trend$’
section), large focus on image) – Explorer – (like to gain new experiences, new
frontiers, first to try new brands)
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My reader will be type of person who is
interested in not only hip hop music but the culture surrounding it, involving
fashion and more + open-minded – type to try new things – regular user of
social media sites particularly twitter, tumblr and instagram which are visual
and good for socialising and gaining a following – trendsetters and somewhat
brand conscious
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Socially aware e.g. like rappers such as
Kendrick Lamar, Tupac, J Cole
2 Types of
Average Reader – Male and Female:
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Male
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Age:
22, Ethnicity: Black British, Location: London (Urban Areas of
London) so maybe North or East, Music
Genres: UK artists of all different genres like Grime, UK Rap, Afrobeats
etc. , also American music, Class:
Skilled working class, Hobbies/Interests/Free
Time: In his free time he uses social media like Twitter (UK Twitter) and
Instagram, may be interested in UK YouTube shows such as BKChat, enjoys parties
and meeting up with friends, shops at JD, Footlocker, H&M Men, Blue INC,
TopMan (fashion forward to some extent), big focus on his persona and vibe, be
a budding grime artist, Money: is in
UNI so doesn’t have that much disposable income, spends It on going out and
clothes
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Female
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Age : 18 (a student, last year of sixth
form), Ethnicity : Black British
(but of course other readers), Location
: London (Urban Areas of London) so maybe North or East, Music Genres: Typically listens to
Grime, Afrobeats, American music and maybe some foreign music, Class: Comes
from a working class family, Hobbies/Interests/Free
Time: In her free time she enjoys going shopping in centres such as
Westfield and Oxford Street with her friends, regular user of social media such
as snapchat, Instagram and Twitter, enjoys house parties + day outings with
friends (usually always documented on snapchat), shops at H&M, MissGuided,
JD and River Island mainly, socially conscious (uses places like Twitter as a
platform to promote herself + her views), Money:
is working part-time so spends her money on clothes (online shops), food,
outings such as dinners etc. and music
Question 3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Q3.
My publisher changed from Conde Nast to Bauer due to Bauer
being a better option in terms of publishing and distributing widely as well as
the company having experience with music magazines, which have been successful,
however all the music magazines they have published have been from the rock
genre, so having my magazine would be a change and new field for them to
explore via their publishing. Also, they have brands that target millennials
which is my target audience as well, so they will be able to actively advertise
my magazine to my target audience and make it better known.
I chose to have a big publisher as it will allow my
magazine to be available and advertised on platforms other than just print, so
for example digital e.g. social and mobile so by having a website for my
magazine with articles from the magazine as well as other new content to keep
the audience interested + having an online version of the magazine (e-zine). By
having my magazine available on multiple online platforms it will help increase
how widely it is viewed since a larger percentage of my target audience would
read/ interact with products online as opposed to from a shop, in print, and
can gain their interest more + gives my magazine a wider online social
following – my publisher is very socially based.
Also, by having a big publisher my magazine will be able to be linked to good distributors and sold in
a majority of big newsagents and shops such as whsmith so it will be seen and
can reach a wider audience (via the sale and return method)
Subscription would be available – guaranteed money + my
publisher does subscriptions.
Question 1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Front Cover
Followed the conventions of XXL and other music
mags by having cover-lines and listing artists on the side with a + - however
didn’t follow the conventions of FADER and BRICK as they don’t include cover
lines – conversely, the cover –lines on this XXL mag are short (only the names
of the artist) whereas on my magazine they are quite long so I didn’t conform
to that convention in that way (looked at other magazines for that)
- Followed
the 3 colour scheme – however opted for a different use of colours and in a
different way – both xxl and fader used red in their colour scheme (FADER only
for this issue) and red is used a lot since it stands out ,especially for the
masthead, but in mine I chose the colour yellow as I felt like it displayed a
different vibe
- A skyline or something that links to the issue
(convention of most magazines + XXL – had it on FADER as well) – however on
mine because the placement of the masthead was different to XXL and Fader (both
of theirs having their masthead on the left side) and so having the skyline on
the right I had my skyline directly above my masthead like other magazines –
followed a convention of Brick as the masthead is in the centre
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Cover artist maintains direct eye-contact with
the camera – direct mode of address
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Date & Issue number – issue number + price
near barcode like XXL
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Simplistic style of front cover to link to Brick
and Fader’s simple cover’s and focus on ‘aesthetic’ but still added headlines
as to follow normal conventions
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Cover star follows the convention of the XXL and
Fader cover of wearing clothing and props that connote the genre – my cover
star is wearing 2 silver chains, big hoop earrings and has tattoos showing –
denotation of this
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Followed the convention of making the masthead
stand out – ‘highlighted the $ in my masthead like Fader highlighted the F in
theirs’
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Placed my cover star over the masthead like XXL
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Unlike how in Brick + Fader the front cover
images are taken with a close-up shot, I decided to take mine with a mid-shot
as a way to highlight the conventional props on my artists
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Contents Page
(compared to BRICK, FADER and XXL)
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Compared to my case
studies contents pages, my contents page differed drastically – the large usage
of images and layout are some of the main challenges made to the form and
layout of my case studies
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A difference with all of them is my inclusion of
social media links, subscription information, editor’s letter and various
different images. My contents has included intertextuality, which is something
the others mainly have not (except for FADER which mentions a different form of
media platform)
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With Fader, their
contents page layout was only one side so I had already challenged that
convention of the magazine - as you can see I used a considerably larger amount
of pictures than the Fader contents – they simply use one small image of the
cover star but with mine I included images of other artists that would feature
in my magazine as well (links to the change in layout) – I chose to do this
again to emphasise the large global, and information filled aspect of my
magazine – I chose the images to represent the diversity of my magazine
visually and directly highlight this – Again with Layout, I set out the
articles differently with features and regulars being on different sides and
being my only two headers – with Fader they used more than one and the ones
that weren’t features did not have explanations, just the article names whereas
with mine I added little explanations under them all – one convention of Fader’s
contents page that I did follow was the use of a pull-quote to anchor to the
image – for two of my images I anchored them to pull quotes that I created
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They also did not have the editor’s letter on
their contents page however I chose to include it in mine
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I followed the conventions of this contents by
arranging the numbering with the title of the feature in a similar way and
included pull quotes.
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With BRICK, you can clearly see my contents page
… challenges the form and conventions of their contents. With Brick they have
no images, no pull quotes, it doesn’t necessarily link to the colour scheme
shown on the front cover and it isn’t organised into features etc., it’s just
labelled articles – these article names also do not have explanations
underneath them. BRICK’s contents page is very simplistic in nature, somewhat
fitting their front cover. With mine, I completely go against this, subverting
the entire page. My contents is the complete opposite of Brick’s, which can
clearly be seen just by looking at both.
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With XXL, my contents reinforced some of their
conventions, but then I developed it to fit my own magazine’s style. However,
there is also cases in which I have subverted from that model. In the case of
subverting, we can see that the XXL contents page only includes one image.
Although XXL technically has two contents pages due to the ‘A-Side’ – ‘B-Side’
format, all together this only leads to the inclusion of two photos. With mine
I included 4 images. Additionally, the ‘A-Side’-‘B-Side’ format of the contents
page is not executed through a double page spread , there are ads in-between
making each side a single contents page whereas with mine, the contents is
double paged. Now, with the case of conforming to the conventions, we can see
that I have followed the idea of continuing on the colour scheme of the
magazine clearly onto the contents; with XXL their colour scheme of Red, White and Black is clearly shown through the
contents making it recognisable – with mine, HU$TLE’s colour scheme of Gold,
White and Black is also clearly shown throughout the contents securing the
colour scheme with the model and brand,
anchoring it to the cover and creating a ‘house style’ just like XXL
did. With the typography, I used the same layout of having the features on one
side (or page in XXL’s case) and the regulars on the other (although it was
done in a different way on the XXL one); I also followed the trend of writing
small explanations of the article underneath the article title like XXL. I then
included small conventional features such as having the page number, issue
number/edition and website name on the contents page which wasn’t done for the
other ones.
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As you can see I
strayed quite far from the templates given to me by my case study contents
pages – I also used other contents page to create a model as I wanted mine to
not be as simplistic as the ones on my case study.
Double Page Spread (compared to BRICK, FADER and XXL)
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For my double page
spread, I decided to include two pages for it. From studying my case studies,
all 3 included a page before the actual double page spread which gave a brief insight
as to what was going to be included in the double page spread as well as gave
credits to the interviewer and had the title of the article – as I liked this
idea and wanted to conform to the conventions displayed in my magazine I
decided to add this additional initial page including the same information but
tailored to my magazine. I think I mostly was able to follow the conventions
laid out on each of the magazines – I added different aspects from the
different pages of each of the pages that I liked into my final one. The
inclusion of a main title displayed largely was a convention of all 3 of them
so that was of course included – With BRICK, they didn’t include the brief
description however I felt that it was too simplistic with just the title so I
added a brief insight like XXL did, therefore I conformed to the conventions of
XXL’s one more. The addition of the pull quote is an example of an aspect in
which I subverted from their examples however I felt it looked good. –
Typography manipulation – change of colour selection for emphasised words to
create a pun and emphasise it.
- For my actual double
page spread, I probably conformed mostly to the layout and writing style of
BRICK and FADER, however I did add aspects of XXL into it. I followed conventions
of all real magazines such as using a drop cap at the start of a new paragraph,
and organising my writing into columns. Unlike most artist interviews (which
are in a Q&A format) I decided to do mine in a biographical profile format
as that is what had been in FADER and BRICK and those were the two double page
spreads I looked at when creating mine, mainly in terms of journalism.
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With XXL,
you can clearly see my image has been somewhat influence by the one used on the
XXL magazine. I used a similar angle, and the showcasing of costume are the
same e.g. both are wearing silver chains which as clearly displayed on the artist,
both have the same direct mode of address etc.
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With BRICK I took a lot of inspiration in terms
of layout and journalism. I decided to include a similar layout in which there
were pull-quote quotes ‘inside’ the journalism, instead of just on the picture.
This was one aspect I liked a lot when analysing the BRICK double page spread
so I implemented it in my own. I developed it to fit my magazine by having more
pull out quotes included. In terms of journalism, I copied the styling of the language
that had been implemented in the magazine’s article to create the same relaxed,
conversational tone in that magazine, whilst also maintaining some formalities.
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