The student created a music magazine called 'Hiplife' targeting males aged 16-22. They learned new skills using software like Photoshop and InDesign to design pages and edit images. Feedback showed the magazine effectively represented the target genre and audience. While the preliminary version lacked polish, the final project demonstrated improved composition, layout, and detail meeting conventions of professional hip hop magazines.

1. Evaluation Samuel Knott

3. My Final Product!

5. Front Cover Original Photograph

7. The Original image for my Contents Page

9. The Photograph from My double page spread.

11. A typical stereotype from my social group

12. Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? The music and magazine industry are slowly becoming a big partner in business. This is because magazines can be used to promote and exploit music stars thus for making the music industry money. This factor could be very important for the music industry in the future as it is beginning to feel the affects of music piracy and is looking for alternative ways to make money other than simply selling music. There are several music magazine publishers that would be interested publishing and selling my product. I feel that publishers such as Future Publishing and Harris Publications would be interested in selling my product as they have published magazines such as ‘Hiphop Connection’ and ‘XXL’ magazine which are similar products to mine. Therefore either of these publishers I feel would publish my product and I would be happy to let them as they are both well established publishers.

15. Audience Feedback Results!

20. Conclusion In conclusion, I am very pleased with the overall outcome of my final project. I feel that it successfully met the conventions of a Hiphop/R’n’B magazine and could be passed as a professional project. The colour scheme I used suits the genre along with the appropriate mix of fonts and texts etc. The style and composure of the images are good, however if I were to change one thing I would change the smaller images on the contents page as they were rushed because I did not realise you had to have a minimum of four images on your magazine. I think I came close to complete realness and if I were to do it again, I feel I would make it completely professional.