The document summarizes the student's media magazine project. It discusses how the magazine uses conventions of real magazines through elements like mastheads, cover lines, and consistent branding. It represents the R&B music genre and 16+ audience through imagery of artists and topics. The student learned skills like photo editing and importing text. Overall, the student improved at magazine design from their preliminary task by creating conventional multi-page spreads and doing additional research into the music magazine genre.

1. Evaluatio
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2. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
FRONT PAGE
•Big striking mastheads
of the magazine is a big
convention shows the
buyer clearly what there
buying.
•There is big bold text
that is used to anchors
the main image which
helps encourage the
reader to buy the
magazine.

3. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
• On my magazine it shares
the same obvious
conventions such as the
date, price and barcode.
• The bold cover lines help
highlight a specific topic
covered inside the
magazine.

4. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
FRONT PAGE
•The colour in both
magazines show a
consistent theme in the
“Vibe” magazine there’s the
use of green, white and a bit
of red. In my “Beatz”
magazine there is the use of
black, red and white.
•They both share the same
convention of having a ‘puff’
to attract the reader.

5. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
DIFFERENCES
FRONT PAGE •The “vibe”
magazine
demonstrates the
use of a close up
photograph where
as in my “beatz”
magazine I’ve
shown a main image
reflecting a medium
long shot.
•There is a variation
of the amount of
font sizes used
which helps

6. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
DIFFERENCES
• Om my magazine
front cover I have
challenged the
convention by the
Idea of having a
‘scan barcode’ to
make my
magazine look
modern and
engage the target
audience.
• The size of the
main image take
up majority of the
space provided,
and the eye line is
in the top third of
the page which is
also a convention.

7. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
•Large images to
show the reader
who will feature
inside the
magazine.
•The numbers next
to the headings
reference what
page it is going to
be on, this is a
popular convention
that makes is clear
for the reader.
•‘contents’ is
massively
highlighted to alert
the reader exactly
what page it is.

8. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
DIFFERENCES
•In my media product I have
chosen to have a more
consistency of colours
however the theme choice
isn't random its just set in a
different style to most
magazine contents pages.

9. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
• The contents page has may
conventional similarities as
like other existing products.
• A numerous amount of
images to allow the reader
to get a clear idea of the
genre music type. this is
conventional because its
showing a various amount
of artist that feature in the
magazine.
• An ‘editors note’ which is
mostly seen in magazine
once they publish there first
issue.

10. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
DIFFERENCES
• From looking at the
example of an existing
double page spread from
the ‘VIBE’ magazine I can
see how much my own
double spread page differs
in a way of originality.
• In the existing magazine
there are a limited amount
of colours used which
makes it look like a more
mature adult audience that
it is targeted to.

11. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
SIMILARITIES
• From looking at this
existing double page
spread we share the same
similarities in the way there
is a large text taking up a
lot of space however it
looks very decorative and
creative.
• What I’ve found to notice
that in this ‘NME’ music
magazine its similar to
mine because it has a
female artist picture which
takes up majority of the
page posing , this shows
that the model must has a
dominant relative part of
the article.

12. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• I have made the front cover of
my magazine very
stereotypical reflecting the
music genre- RnB.
• I thought doing this would
give the audience and social
groups a clear understanding
and insight as to what the
product is about.

13. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• My media has represented the
not only the social group of
the music genre RnB, but has
represented an16+ audience
that will find great interest
into this type of media
product which I have found
out from my previous
research-questionnaire.
• A cover line on the front page
of my magazine product
“Jessie J stars on a new
talent show” indicates and
suggest a different class that
isn't just interested in music
media but also television
which is still a type of media.

14. 2.How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
• The mise en sine that has
been represented through
the clothing of the model on
the front page of the music
magazine is an obvious
assumption as too what
“Hip-Hop” “RnB” artist
wear, baggy top. Baseball
hat/cap, chain and the idea
of him holding a
microphone is to portray
the music magazine
product.

15. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
•On my contents page I have
another picture which
represent the obvious RnB
genre as to the clothing the
models are wearing- the idea
of tracksuits, trainers and
hoddie.
• On the contents page I have
notified the audience on up
coming events that they may
be interested in, which also
representing a different type
of social class.

16. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• In my media product I have
included some “celebrity
gossip” which I thought the
audience I am targeting this
would entertain them as
many people within that age
group have celebrity role
models they look up to.
• Technology such as iPods,
headphones, iPhones, ect
have been shown in my
contents page because it’s a
popular devices mi imagine
my audience to have and
they are all in a way
connected to the music
genre whether you can listen
to or buy music off them.
This suggest another type of
social class.

17. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• I have also included a list of
activities that the audience can
keep entertained such as “
“chances to win” this is
designed to represent another
type of social class so my
media product isn’t bias.
• In my contents page I have
listed an number of topics so
its not just concentrating on
one thing it has various things
that the audience can relate to
as they may be apart of many
different social classes.

18. 2.How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
• The double page spread is a
great way to show how my
media product represent,
many different social
groups because its and
interview that asks question
about many different things
all people would be
interested in.

19. 3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
• The type of media institution
that could distribute my
media product would be the
music company “EMI”
• This is because the company
have taken on only a few
artist that are within my
chosen music genre RnB.
• Artist such as snoop
dogg,Emile Sande,
TinieTempah, J.Holiday,
professer Green however this
is like a minumum amount
compared to the many RnB
artist out there that are very
much in the media limelight.

20. 3.What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
• From doing some research ive found that the music record
company “UNIVERSAL RECORDS” has a numerous amount of
RnB artist signed than any other.
• So I think my media product could easily be distributed to this
type of media institution. This way my media product could be
a type of publisher advertising there artist of my chosen music
genre.
• I also think that my media product is appropriate to this
specific institution as I can relate to many artist within the
company.

21. 3.What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
• AKON
• ASHANTI
• AMERIE
• CHAMILLIONAIRE
• DIDDY
• DRAKE
• DR DRE
• LL COOL J
• LIL JON
• LIL WAYNE
• LLOYD
• LUDACRIS
• BIG BOI
• AALIYAH

22. 3.What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
TEYANA TAYLOR
RICKROSS
RIHANNA
TIMBERLAND
THE DREAM
JESSIE J
JAY Z
KAYNE WEST
KEYSHIA
KELLY
ROWLAND
KERI HILSON
MANY MORE…

23. 4.Who would the audience be for your media product?
• For my media product the audience would be a mixture of social
classes.
• It’s mainly targeted at people who like the RnB music genre and then
a age group that is 16+.
• I have chosen this age group because they are at a mature level to be
able to participate in the activities and prizes that are included in my
music magazine.
• I also think that the wording and topics highlighted in my music
magazine relate to this age group and I am able to relate to my music
magazine as I am within that age.

24. 5.How did you attract/address your audience?
• To attract the audience I used bright
eye catching colours however I kept
a theme going because it I had lots
of colours then my magazine would
look childish and the age group of
my target audience is 16+ so I used
mature colours.
• A large imagine central of the front
page is also away to attract the
audience /readers attention. The
front cover is the first thing the
reader sees and this way they are
able to tell whether or not they like
the music magazine.

25. 5.How did you attract/address your audience?
• There is the same
amount of colours
used in the contents
page which helps make
the magazine look neat
and tidy.
• In the contents page
there was more to say
and I could address the
audience as though I
was talking directly to
them by using words
like “us” and “you”

26. 5.How did you attract/address your audience?
• To address the
audience I did a
interview and written it
in colloquial language
so many of the
audience of the target
age I chose to do will
be able to understand
and relate to it.
• To attract the audience
I decide to do the
models image very
large on one side of the
page so it was clear
and on the I did a
border around the page
by recreating shapes
and changing the
colour of them to make
them eye catching and
a well presented page
to look at for my
preferred audience.

27. 6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
• I have learnt how to edit images in photo shop, for instance
changing a photo from the original image into a black and white
image and changing the brightness and contrast of it so the image
looks more professional and clean.

28. 6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
This was the end result once I changed and messed
around with the brightness and contrast of the
image. I also cropped it down so there was precise
and together.

29. 6.What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
To start off with I had to get
together some images of
models that were dressed in a
way that could project a “RnB”
or “Hip-Hop” style to it, I also
had to focus on getting the
right sort of background which
was appropriate for my
magazine. I also had to decide
what type of shots I wanted for
what parts of my magazine,
whether it was a close up
medium shot for my front
cover or a long shot for my
contents.

30. 6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
• I have learnt how to import text off the internet and change it in a
way that satisfy's me and that fits in with my magazine design. Here
I have created a logo and title for my magazine. I have used to
different types of fonts that I though bring out that “urban” and
“Hip Hop” sort of style. The red a black colours are a consistent
theme which is run throughout the whole of the magazine.

31. 7.Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in progressions from it to the full product?
• Ive now been able to construct and create a double page spread
which I have not done before in my preliminary task. This has helped
me become confident in using the ‘In design programme”.

32. 7.Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in progressions from it to the full product?
• I think by doing more research into the music magazine genre I have
gained more knowledge about the industry and It has impacted me to
produce a music magazine that is very conventional in ways to other
existing music magazine products.