In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and vonventions of ral media products?
After researching through a range of different music magazines i decided to go with a hip hop magazine called Old Skool. I looked at many rap magazines on the internet and studied how i could make my magazine look like the top ones. i also looked at alot of double page spreads to get a general feel of how the articles were written and how the overall page looked. I then put these ideas together to form my own layout and started to form my magazine and my double page spread.
I have 2 photos on my double page spread bothg where the artist is looking directly at the camera but is a rough urban background to incinuate wre he is from . This is an idea i used from one of the magazines i looked at.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine highlights the Rap genre similar to the ideology of the rap magazines i have looked at. Specifically in my article it highlights how people can come from a bad background and achieve big things, and how its happens alot in the Rap Industry these ideas can be represented through the music industry.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience I originally chose was older maturer teenagers both male and female who are interested in rap music. I kept my target just matur teenagers because i feel they understand the lyrics and the storys behind some rap songs i also chose this because my magazine could contain taboo language. I feel now however that adults may be interested in my magazine as they could have grown up around rap groups like Run dmc and the NWA, this is why i named my magazine - 'Old Skool' which stands out and gives a general idea that the magazine promotes old school genres that mature teenagers and adults can understand. the magazine has rap music from around the world. I used specific styles, features, text size, fonts, design and graphics to attract my audience, my front page has bright colours and a big photo of the feature artist in the magazine.
What have you learnt about technologies from the procre of constructing this product?
I certainly feel I have made process since my first task, picking up skills and ideas on certain programmes.
My preliminary task is very simple, I didn't use photoshop of other complex programs to make it, I didn't do as much research as I recently did for my final task and I only did one draft. I feel I have learnt to produce initial drafts so that i can see how my magazine would have improved, do a lot of research and try out a range of different ideas. The programmes I can now use confidentally are Publisher, Paint and Photoshop. I have learnt how to blend graphics together, how to use different font effects and many other skills.
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