2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
When I researched and looked at other
music magazines I found different codes
and styles I wanted to use in my media
product. I found stylish hip-hop
magazines and symmetrical pop
magazines. In my preliminary task I
wanted to mix those two different styles,
a mixture between a pure and clean
style and rough hip-hop style. When I
was going to make my magazine I found
out that it was hard to mix the two
different styles so I decided to make a
hip-hop stylish media product with rough
grafitti fonts and a rough looking model. I
wanted my product to BE a hip-hop
magazine, a magazine that is the
definition to a hip-hop magazine.
3. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product represent a soical
group in the age between 16-25. My
audience like a variance of hip-hop and
rap, and they would like to attend
concerts and know about the different
hip-hop and rap aritists lives. My music
magazine have a style that most people
recongnise as a hip-hop/rap magazine. I
also think my magazine reaches
different groups of people listening to
different sorts of hip-hop/rap music. I try
to have a combination between famous
artists and unknown artists that people
can listen to and give a variation of
articles and interviews and facts about
different sort of artists. Here is my
reader profile for my music magazine.
4. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have had media in Norway, so I can
use most of the Adobe applications
from my past in Norway last school
year. The most useful I have learned
from this product is all the preparations
before actually making the product by
all the research and questionnaires. I
think I have learned more teory in class
than I have learned about the adobe
programmes and cameras. I think
media is a fun subject to do because
the subject involves not just
photograph and film but a lot of
different kind of views, like how people
see the media as a protector of the
society, and how you adress people in
films, series and how everything is so
detailed, like what do people wear,
where is the location etc.
5. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from
it to the full product?
I think I have learned more about how
you work and research to find out what
you are going to make and who are
going to purchase and read it and
where they are from. I have used the
adobe applications/programmes before
so I do not think I have learned so much
about the programmes. I have also
learned that you get more creative
when you have done a progression in
how you think your product is going to
look like. I learned that I wanted to do
something else that I thaught I would
like to do. I think it is very important to
research and look at different
magazines to see what you want to do
yourself. This is the main thing I have
learned during the process.
6. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my media product will
be people who are interested in the
music genres hip-hop and rap, and
would like to know more about the artists
and like to read articles, fun facts and
lots more about the genre in basic and
upcoming events. I think my media
product/magazine would be a product
for those who really are interested, this
means that the people reading my
magazine would like to spend some
money on my product to read it. I try to
connect the customers up with different
types of artists from famous and maybe
infamous artists around the world within
the genres hip-hop and rap.
7. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think my magazine could be
distrubuted by an urban and
professional media institution like
Infamous Ink. They are a
professional group of people and are
the company behind a big hip-hop
magazine called «Hip-Hop
Connection». They are located in
Cambridge and are newsgathering
to print, distribution and new media. I
think this media institution is the
perfect for my new magazine,
because they are professional and
they have experience with Hip-
Hop/rap magazines. They seem to
be the best institution for me.
8. How did you attract/address your audience?
My music magazine uses slang,
social media and a style that attract
the audience of my magazine. I
think people can recognise the style
of hip-hop and rap by just looking at
my front cover, and when they read
my magazine they would know
artists and feel that the articles and
interviews are easy to read. I try to
make them feel good when they
read it and maybe have a little laugh
aswell.
