G321 Media Studies Magazine Evaluation

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My Magazine Evaluation

Media Studies G321

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

My magazine is focused on Hip-Hop, I therefore used graffiti as the mastheads font, this is blatant as I have a spray-can on the top left of the masthead. Graffiti is a Hip-Hop convention, like wise to Hip-Hop it is a an urban culture and they both link to one another, graffiti can be used to express views whereas hip-hop expresses it vocally .There is a fair amount of graffiti in my magazine, its simply fits my magazine conventions because Hip-Hop and graffiti come from the same background. Fancy writing is completely unnecessary for my magazine because it represents more luxurious one; Rap City means street.

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Puff – to usually share exclusive content inside

Main Cover-line – not in its usual dominating size; still stands out however.

Barcode

Cover-lines

Footer - Bar

Masthead

Cover-Star

Motto

Cover Page

http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/magazine-front-cover-components.html

XXL Cover-page conventions in comparison to mine

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Contents

I looked into magazines like Vibe and XXL and realised that they included images of featured artists. I included images of some artists featured in my magazine; keeping to my magazine conventions also; by sticking to a blue theme and graffiti font.

For Better viewing of my contents page: http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/my-final-piece.html

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

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Double-Page Spread

Nasiera’s twitter @NASIERAKP

Graffiti on the background wall

Colour coordinated

Shadow effect

For my double-page spread I just thought about Hip-Hop and how it originated, I knew that the streets played a big role. I tried to discover a way I could add more ‘street’ to the magazine, after all that’s where most their artists originated.Birth of Hip-Hop:http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/birth-of-hip-hop.html

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

My magazine is aimed at a young male audience between 14 and 27 that are fans of Rap/Hip-Hop, although this does not include females or people of certain ages ; it’ll be a bonus if there was a mass interest.The magazine does appear to have a street theme as Rap City aims to visually attracts a male audience, the magazine is blue themed which is stereotypically a male colour and the masthead font as well as its own name, shows the male focus by graffiti and the noun ‘Rap’ alone.

Hip-Hop commonly attracts interest from groups that are in the inner city and the street conventions like graffiti further influences their interest.

Hip-Hop is highly dominated by males artists, so some could say that the genre alone attracts a young male audience.

Questionnaire on target audience: http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/magazine-questionnaire.html

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Cover StarNasiera demonstrates someone that is confident and serious through his direct eye contact. He also shows rebellious attitude in that his hood is not fully properly, Nasiera demonstrates a typical youth attitude which would help attract the right target audience .When we get to the interview double-page spread his attitude is more open and we a see a Nasiera that differs from the cover star, as he goes under the microscope.

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3.What Kind of media institution would distribute your magazine and why?

‘Spin Media’ would be suited into distributing my magazine, it owns a community of pop culture websites.Spin Media distributes similar Hip-Hop magazine “Vibes”, my magazine isn’t completely the same as Vibes because Vibes do RnB as well as Hip-Hop , RnB is closely linked to Hip-Hop and so is Pop Music . I therefore I believe we fit their category, not being the complete same as Vibes but offers something new.

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IPC is another Distributer suited to my magazine, especially for a niche marketIPC media advertises a different variety of magazines unlike Spin Media, they also have a range of ways of distributing their affiliated magazines because of new technology, creating content for multiple platforms like Tablets and mobiles for example.

http://www.ipcmedia.com/

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4. Who would be the audience of your media product?

My Target Audience is for Young Males ranging between teens and mid-20s (14-27), this is a big gap but most males that listen to Hip-Hop are of this age range.Rap City is similar to Hip-Hop magazine to XXL which is not only a Hip-Hop magazine but it is also aimed at a male audience .

The quiz results http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/magazine-questionnaire-analysis.htmlThe purpose on me doing a quiz was to see what my target audience generally prefer more, Hip-Hop fans told me that they prefer ones opinions and values as well as their inspiration ; when I did my interview with Nasiera he gave his opinions and values.

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5.How did you attract/address your audience?

My Masthead simply tells you it focuses on Rap by the name ‘Rap city’, you already know that it’s a Music magazine by its name something that isn’t always easy to tell by magazine mastheads. It also uses typography as you get a drawing of a city in bottom right corner of the Masthead. There is also a spray can on the top left that goes with the graffiti font, graffiti is a Hip-Hop convention so this very effective in drawing in the right target audience

The main Colour used on my magazine is blue,, using blue aims to attract my male audience as the colour is highly link to males.

Secondary colour is white, it’s a positive/ clear view and I believe it reflects a positive attitude amongst viewers

http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/why-is-rap-city-blue.htmlMore on Rap City being Blue:

http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/magazine-mastheads.html

http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/my-masthead-draft.html

More on Mastheads:

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Cover Lines 5.How did you attract/address your audience?

I Knew my cover-lines had to be either catchy, persuasive or controversial to make people want to read it, cover-lines play an important role in selling your magazine.

This is my main cover-line “I’ve returned with the charger” . Viewers have no idea what is meant by this headline, it therefore persuades them to buy it. The Main cover-line is not only persuasive towards them but it’s a controversial quote as what Nasiera means is, Hip-Hop has been struggling and he has come to rejuvenate the genre, other artists may take this to offence, but him saying this will create publicity and make more people want to read into the magazine and into Nasiera himself.

Other headlines I thought of using:

http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/potential-magazine-main-headlines.html

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Images

My Images successfully shows that rebellious teenage attitude that was needed to attract the right viewers, Hip-Hop artists like to show this attitude also.

This is the cover-star image, it not only shows that ‘Serious’ look but not being hooded up properly shows that he don’t really care “ I’ll Wear it how I want”. Teenagers don’t usually care and neither do Hip-Hop artists; Hip-Hop conventions.

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

Strengths of the programs I’ve used:Microsoft Word Page Plus Microsoft

PublisherPaint.Net Blogger

Very simple to use Variety of ways edit pictures

Extremely simple to use, I used it for older Drafts of my magazine

Has layers that you can use to structure your project

Reliable blog

Found Artistic effects for my magazine

Additional tools including cut-out

Spell -check on this also

Able edit images with effects

You can edit old posts if you recognise a mistake etc.

Flexible, I can change colour, contrast or brightness of the picture

Able to save work as JPEG

You can drag fonts and pictures around the page

Can save work as PNG

Add pictures to posts

Spell-check to prevent mistakes

Can save work as JPEG and PNG

Flatten work, meaning all the layers are established together as one picture

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

Microsoft Word

Page Plus Microsoft Publisher

Paint.Net Blogger

Unable to save documents JPEG/PNG

Can be complicated to use and takes some getting used to

Doesn’t have enough tools like Cut-out,

Can get confusing, by not knowing what layer has what component

Sometimes posts don’t get paragraphed.

Difficult to move pictures and text

With a wide range of options the program can be over used.

Limited choice of shapes and brushes

Had to screen grab some fonts, making it less visible

Mistakes can be hard to erase.

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

I Regret not making the most of programs like Page Plus, it had so much to offer but my artistic effects was from Microsoft Word; I used ‘Photocopy effect’.Each program played their part in the development of my magazine however.

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

Drafting and PlanningIn the planning of my magazine . I looked into graffiti fonts off the website www.dafont.com and this is what came up http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/my-masthead-draft.html My initial plan for my contents page was to take a picture of a street and replace its street signs with artists featured in the magazine. I felt that it’ll be over creative and complicated for readers. I looked into other magazine contents pages, they were very simple, so I decided to keep my contents page simple and move ideas into the interview page.My Cover page features ‘photocopy’ effect, there was no typography related reason as to why I done this, I just believed it looked more appealing.

Contents plan:http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/contents-draft-1.html

Vibes Contents page: http://nasiera1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/contents-page-research.html

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

PhotographsI aimed to make my photographs link to the text, this way you can recognise the context in which something was said, for example there is a smiling image of Nasiera in the humorous part of the interview but as it gets more serious there’s a snap of him with hands on the back of his head

Some images, like the cover-page picture had colours adjusted to blue to contribute to the magazine conventions

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Looking back at my Preliminary task

Preliminary Main Task

Barcode is never usually left-sided on cover-page

Cover lines way to small

Main cover-line doesn’t relate the picture, an appropriate cover-line would of have been the cover-star in his school clothes at least

Barcode in traditional position

Artist giving direct eye contact

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OverallOverall I am happy with my final draft, I could have taken more advantage tools on Page Plus and could posted more Blog posts but I am still satisfied with my work.Coursework helped realise what is needed for certain music magazines and certain age groups/genders and social groups. I feel my strongest page is my cover-page as it tempts readers to buy the product with cover-lines including phrases “exclusive” and my Main Cover-line “ I’ve returned with the charger” is tempting, readers have no clue what he means by that.