The double page spread follows conventions of real media by featuring a large central image of the cover model along with pulled quotes and page numbers. Smaller images are styled as polaroid pictures to convey a sense of the past. Photos from a local skatepark showcase the model in natural poses, contrasting stern and smiling facial expressions. Her attire, like t-shirts referencing pop culture memories, aims to appeal to both teenage and older audiences.
The document discusses the design conventions followed in creating a music magazine called "Spotlight". These include using a gritty yet readable font for titles, an easy to read font for body text, brief but informative articles, and a color scheme similar to other music magazines. Photographs follow conventions of using passive shots for covers and double page spreads and active shots for contents pages. Pull quotes, cover lines, and page numbers also adhere to typical magazine conventions. The intended audience is represented equally regardless of gender.
The document discusses how the product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. It analyzes the front cover and contents page of the magazine "Kerrang!" and describes elements that were adapted for the student's own music magazine cover and contents page, such as masthead positioning, thumbnail images and headers, multiple models on the cover, and layered overlapping images. It also discusses how gender and social groups are represented and the choice of distribution company. The student learned about audience research, appropriate content for different ages, technologies like online surveys, the benefits of digital editing tools, and how to effectively use color, images, and layout to attract audiences.
The document discusses how the author's magazine product represents and attracts its target audience. It uses similar conventions as other rock magazines through elements like masthead design, color schemes, and column structures. The magazine represents musicians and mainly male rock fans in their late teens to early twenties. It would be distributed by music festival publishers and at rock festivals to reach this audience. The author aims to attract readers through bold designs, live music images, and incentives like a free music download that appeal to their interests.
The document discusses how the product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It analyzes the front cover of the magazine "Kerrang!" and describes elements that were adapted for the student's own music magazine cover, including masthead positioning, thumbnail images with headers, and positioning of multiple models. It also discusses elements adapted from other magazines' contents pages and double page spreads, such as using thumbnail images, boxes around headers, page numbers, and layered overlapping images.
The document provides an evaluation of Olivia O'Connell's media studies foundation portfolio. It summarizes her magazine project, addressing how it used and challenged conventions of real magazines, how it represented social groups, its intended distribution channels and target audience. Olivia analyzed the codes and conventions of magazine front covers, contents pages, and double-page spreads. She also discussed the technologies used to create the magazine, what she learned, and how successful she feels the final product was in fulfilling the task brief.
The document provides an evaluation of a magazine created by the student. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses conventions of real magazines, such as layout, design elements, and genre representation. The student aims to both follow conventions, such as color palette and serious poses, while also challenging some, like irregular band positioning and a violent magazine title. The genres portrayed through visuals and writing are analyzed.
The document provides an evaluation of how the media product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It summarizes how each element of the magazine - including the main image, structure, colors, and images - either conforms to or innovates beyond conventions. For example, the main image uses a common shot size but unconventional makeup, while the structure follows standard layouts but with some unique design choices. Overall, the evaluation examines the balance between conventional and challenging aspects in constructing an authentic-feeling magazine.
The document discusses the design conventions followed in creating a music magazine called "Spotlight". These include using a gritty yet readable font for titles, an easy to read font for body text, brief but informative articles, and a color scheme similar to other music magazines. Photographs follow conventions of using passive shots for covers and double page spreads and active shots for contents pages. Pull quotes, cover lines, and page numbers also adhere to typical magazine conventions. The intended audience is represented equally regardless of gender.
The document discusses how the product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. It analyzes the front cover and contents page of the magazine "Kerrang!" and describes elements that were adapted for the student's own music magazine cover and contents page, such as masthead positioning, thumbnail images and headers, multiple models on the cover, and layered overlapping images. It also discusses how gender and social groups are represented and the choice of distribution company. The student learned about audience research, appropriate content for different ages, technologies like online surveys, the benefits of digital editing tools, and how to effectively use color, images, and layout to attract audiences.
The document discusses how the author's magazine product represents and attracts its target audience. It uses similar conventions as other rock magazines through elements like masthead design, color schemes, and column structures. The magazine represents musicians and mainly male rock fans in their late teens to early twenties. It would be distributed by music festival publishers and at rock festivals to reach this audience. The author aims to attract readers through bold designs, live music images, and incentives like a free music download that appeal to their interests.
The document discusses how the product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It analyzes the front cover of the magazine "Kerrang!" and describes elements that were adapted for the student's own music magazine cover, including masthead positioning, thumbnail images with headers, and positioning of multiple models. It also discusses elements adapted from other magazines' contents pages and double page spreads, such as using thumbnail images, boxes around headers, page numbers, and layered overlapping images.
The document provides an evaluation of Olivia O'Connell's media studies foundation portfolio. It summarizes her magazine project, addressing how it used and challenged conventions of real magazines, how it represented social groups, its intended distribution channels and target audience. Olivia analyzed the codes and conventions of magazine front covers, contents pages, and double-page spreads. She also discussed the technologies used to create the magazine, what she learned, and how successful she feels the final product was in fulfilling the task brief.
The document provides an evaluation of a magazine created by the student. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses conventions of real magazines, such as layout, design elements, and genre representation. The student aims to both follow conventions, such as color palette and serious poses, while also challenging some, like irregular band positioning and a violent magazine title. The genres portrayed through visuals and writing are analyzed.
The document provides an evaluation of how the media product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It summarizes how each element of the magazine - including the main image, structure, colors, and images - either conforms to or innovates beyond conventions. For example, the main image uses a common shot size but unconventional makeup, while the structure follows standard layouts but with some unique design choices. Overall, the evaluation examines the balance between conventional and challenging aspects in constructing an authentic-feeling magazine.
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses how their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in terms of layout, design elements, fonts, and portrayal of genre. The student aims to portray a punk genre through visuals of bands and use of the British flag color scheme. They discuss conventions they follow, like serious band photos, and techniques they try that are less common, like varying image sizes on pages.
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses various ways their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in areas like layout, design elements, fonts, and imagery. The student aims to portray a punk genre through their magazine while also making it interesting and unique compared to other magazines.
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses how their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in terms of layout, design elements, fonts, and imagery used to portray the punk genre. Overall, the student aimed to create a magazine that would appeal to a punk audience while experimenting with some unconventional design techniques.
This document summarizes how a music magazine product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines of the rock genre, while also challenging some expectations. The magazine draws from the style of Kerrang magazine, conforming to conventions like using a large cover line, footer with additional content, and competitions. It also challenges some norms, like not using smaller cover images or stars on the contents page. Overall, the magazine aims to attract audiences familiar with the genre while also subverting some expectations through subtle design choices.
This document analyzes the design elements of magazine covers and pages. It discusses the use of color, images, text formatting and layout on the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread. Key points include: the front cover uses a somber gradient background to make the picture and text stand out, and features a border around the central image. The contents page has a large colorful party photo and bold text for "Contents." The double page spread uses puffs, colorful nightclub photos, and highlighted text labels to draw attention to stories. Throughout, unconventional design choices are noted that break from magazine conventions.
1. The document evaluates a music magazine created by the author.
2. Key aspects of the magazine discussed include using fonts and branding from real bands, incorporating photos taken at live performances, and including content relevant to the target teenage/young adult audience.
3. The author believes the magazine effectively represents the rock music genre through its dark color scheme, broken glass backgrounds, and topics covered. Distribution through Bauer Media is proposed due to their success and audience match.
This document summarizes how the author's media product uses conventions from real music magazines. The author chose a font and title similar to existing magazines to grab readers' attention. Images and text are arranged on the front cover and contents page like magazines such as Loud&Quiet and Clash to emphasize artists and guide readers. Model costumes and a city background on the cover aim to attract the target audience of "New Casuals." The double page spread adopts a typical magazine format with one page for a photo and another for text in columns, interviewing a band member.
This document summarizes how the media product challenges and uses conventions of real magazine covers and contents pages. Key conventions used include a model with direct eye contact, varied colorful cover lines, lures to encourage buying, and headings to separate contents. Conventions challenged include a unique masthead design, non-sequential page numbers, and excessive use of images and font variations to make the pages more eye-catching. The product aims to attract its target audience while putting an original spin on standard magazine formatting.
The document summarizes how the author attracted and addressed their audience through font, photography, color scheme, and page layout in their rock music magazine. For the title font, they chose a fiery red font to convey a rock feel. Photos on the cover featured an indie model to attract indie fans, while interior photos used a dark, isolated style to appeal to fans of heavier rock. Bright colors and contrast were used throughout to draw the eye, with red and grey representing softer rock and black/red representing darker rock. The simple, straightforward layout in thirds made information easy to digest for the target teenage audience.
The document analyzes magazine covers and contents pages from alternative music magazines. It discusses various design elements and whether they are conventional or unconventional for the genre. On the Clash magazine cover, an orange background and overlaying image are unconventional but suit the alternative genre. The King Krule feature uses varied fonts and column placement in an unconventional but aesthetically pleasing way. The contents pages use dull color schemes and images taken from unconventional angles to attract alternative audiences.
The document summarizes the key conventions and codes that the author followed in designing the front cover, contents page, and double-page spread for their music magazine. These include including a masthead, cover lines, images of artists, headlines, standfirsts, drop caps, and captions. The author notes some minor differences from the real-world magazine they were using as a reference, such as additional images or puffs. They also discuss keeping their draft designs and final products consistent in terms of layout and color scheme choices.
The document summarizes the key conventions and codes that the author followed in designing the front cover, contents page, and double page spread for their music magazine. These include including a masthead, cover lines, images of artists, headlines, standfirsts, drop caps, and captions. The author notes some minor differences from the real magazine they were using as a reference, such as additional images or puffs, but overall sought to follow standard magazine design conventions. They discuss keeping similar elements between their initial drafts and final designs while making some minor adjustments based on feedback.
This document analyzes how the magazine evaluation uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. It summarizes that the front cover, contents page, and double page spread of the magazine evaluation generally follow conventions of similar magazines like L3, such as prominent images and advertising of artists. However, some conventions are challenged, like using a wider color scheme and more descriptive article headings to appeal to a broader audience beyond just the niche Soca genre. The overall analysis is that while adhering to many regular genre forms, some conventions are subverted to try expanding the target readership.
The document provides research on fanzines and magazines to help inform the creation of a fanzine about Silverstone racing circuit. Key points learned include using bold colors and fonts to catch readers' attention, incorporating a mix of formal and informal writing styles, and including interviews and news relevant to the topic. Reference materials examined include existing fanzines about football clubs and motorsports that demonstrate effective design techniques. Historical information is also summarized about Silverstone circuit itself to provide content for the new fanzine.
The document discusses the design elements and conventions used in the media product, a magazine. It describes the page numbers, masthead, photography style, fonts, color scheme, pull quote, writing style, and how these elements represent the intended audience and attract readers. The goal is to emulate conventions of real magazines like Kerrang while appealing to fans of punk rock bands like My Chemical Romance. Photoshop skills were applied to arrange photos and text professionally. Overall, the document shows how conventions were adopted and adapted to target a specific demographic.
The document discusses the ways in which the author's magazine designs use and develop conventions of real magazines.
For the magazine cover, the author uses typical conventions like a masthead at the top and a medium shot for the main image. However, the placement of the strapline at the bottom challenges conventions.
For the double-page spread, the use of different colored text in a Q&A format follows conventions, while just using the subject's name for the title develops conventions.
The contents page keeps many elements conventional, like a background image and listing content, but overlaps images in a way atypical of real magazines.
The author aims to represent social group E, ages 18-25, through
This document provides guidance on presentation methods for evaluations, including Popplet, Prezi, Padlet, and video/screen recordings. It also includes evaluation questions about representing social groups in media products and distributing media products through publishing houses. Students are asked to discuss how their media product uses or challenges conventions of real media products, represents particular social groups, and which media institution might distribute their product. Suggested publishing houses include Bauer Media, which distributes magazines like Kerrang. Students are asked to consider revenue expectations in the first year of distribution.
The document evaluates a music magazine created by Kelsea as part of a preliminary task. The magazine, called POPPIN, targets teenage girls and combines music and fashion content. Kelsea discusses the codes and conventions used in the magazine's front cover, contents page, and double page spread to make it appear like a realistic publication and appeal to its target demographic. Feedback from 20 people indicated the colorful layout was most attractive and they felt the magazine targeted females and teenagers. Kelsea reflects on learning how to use new software and represent ideas visually through photos.
The document discusses the conventions used in magazine design and how the student's media product adheres to or challenges conventions.
The front cover uses conventions like a large masthead, cover lines, quotes, date/issue info. It challenges conventions by placing the barcode in the top corner rather than bottom.
The contents page uses conventions like the masthead, images of featured people, large page numbers. It challenges conventions by having images take up more space.
The double page spread uses conventions like a large headline, images opposite text, pull quotes, matching color scheme. It aims to look professional while engaging readers.
The document discusses the student's magazine project and how it represents conventions of real music magazines. Some key points:
- The magazine masthead takes stylistic cues from Kerrang magazine to look worn and old.
- Section headings and splitting the contents page is commonly done in music magazines.
- Text formatting and layout choices like uneven boxes and left-aligned text give the magazine a scruffy look fitting its music genre focus.
- The magazine's colors, fonts and featured bands are meant to attract its target audience of 15-21 year olds interested in alternative rock genres.
The document discusses conventions used in magazine cover design. It explains that the main image on the cover slightly overlaps the masthead to draw attention but not cover too much of it for a first issue. It also discusses placing the banner at the bottom instead of the top of the cover to make the masthead more prominent. Grid techniques like the rule of thirds are used to position the main image and models' eye lines. Larger, bolder text is used to make important lines stand out.
AS media evaluations question 1.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Josh Webb
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses how their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in terms of layout, design elements, fonts, and portrayal of genre. The student aims to portray a punk genre through visuals of bands and use of the British flag color scheme. They discuss conventions they follow, like serious band photos, and techniques they try that are less common, like varying image sizes on pages.
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses various ways their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in areas like layout, design elements, fonts, and imagery. The student aims to portray a punk genre through their magazine while also making it interesting and unique compared to other magazines.
This document provides an evaluation of a student's media magazine project. The student discusses how their magazine uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real music magazines. They analyze similarities and differences between their magazine and publications like NME and Kerrang in terms of layout, design elements, fonts, and imagery used to portray the punk genre. Overall, the student aimed to create a magazine that would appeal to a punk audience while experimenting with some unconventional design techniques.
This document summarizes how a music magazine product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines of the rock genre, while also challenging some expectations. The magazine draws from the style of Kerrang magazine, conforming to conventions like using a large cover line, footer with additional content, and competitions. It also challenges some norms, like not using smaller cover images or stars on the contents page. Overall, the magazine aims to attract audiences familiar with the genre while also subverting some expectations through subtle design choices.
This document analyzes the design elements of magazine covers and pages. It discusses the use of color, images, text formatting and layout on the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread. Key points include: the front cover uses a somber gradient background to make the picture and text stand out, and features a border around the central image. The contents page has a large colorful party photo and bold text for "Contents." The double page spread uses puffs, colorful nightclub photos, and highlighted text labels to draw attention to stories. Throughout, unconventional design choices are noted that break from magazine conventions.
1. The document evaluates a music magazine created by the author.
2. Key aspects of the magazine discussed include using fonts and branding from real bands, incorporating photos taken at live performances, and including content relevant to the target teenage/young adult audience.
3. The author believes the magazine effectively represents the rock music genre through its dark color scheme, broken glass backgrounds, and topics covered. Distribution through Bauer Media is proposed due to their success and audience match.
This document summarizes how the author's media product uses conventions from real music magazines. The author chose a font and title similar to existing magazines to grab readers' attention. Images and text are arranged on the front cover and contents page like magazines such as Loud&Quiet and Clash to emphasize artists and guide readers. Model costumes and a city background on the cover aim to attract the target audience of "New Casuals." The double page spread adopts a typical magazine format with one page for a photo and another for text in columns, interviewing a band member.
This document summarizes how the media product challenges and uses conventions of real magazine covers and contents pages. Key conventions used include a model with direct eye contact, varied colorful cover lines, lures to encourage buying, and headings to separate contents. Conventions challenged include a unique masthead design, non-sequential page numbers, and excessive use of images and font variations to make the pages more eye-catching. The product aims to attract its target audience while putting an original spin on standard magazine formatting.
The document summarizes how the author attracted and addressed their audience through font, photography, color scheme, and page layout in their rock music magazine. For the title font, they chose a fiery red font to convey a rock feel. Photos on the cover featured an indie model to attract indie fans, while interior photos used a dark, isolated style to appeal to fans of heavier rock. Bright colors and contrast were used throughout to draw the eye, with red and grey representing softer rock and black/red representing darker rock. The simple, straightforward layout in thirds made information easy to digest for the target teenage audience.
The document analyzes magazine covers and contents pages from alternative music magazines. It discusses various design elements and whether they are conventional or unconventional for the genre. On the Clash magazine cover, an orange background and overlaying image are unconventional but suit the alternative genre. The King Krule feature uses varied fonts and column placement in an unconventional but aesthetically pleasing way. The contents pages use dull color schemes and images taken from unconventional angles to attract alternative audiences.
The document summarizes the key conventions and codes that the author followed in designing the front cover, contents page, and double-page spread for their music magazine. These include including a masthead, cover lines, images of artists, headlines, standfirsts, drop caps, and captions. The author notes some minor differences from the real-world magazine they were using as a reference, such as additional images or puffs. They also discuss keeping their draft designs and final products consistent in terms of layout and color scheme choices.
The document summarizes the key conventions and codes that the author followed in designing the front cover, contents page, and double page spread for their music magazine. These include including a masthead, cover lines, images of artists, headlines, standfirsts, drop caps, and captions. The author notes some minor differences from the real magazine they were using as a reference, such as additional images or puffs, but overall sought to follow standard magazine design conventions. They discuss keeping similar elements between their initial drafts and final designs while making some minor adjustments based on feedback.
This document analyzes how the magazine evaluation uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. It summarizes that the front cover, contents page, and double page spread of the magazine evaluation generally follow conventions of similar magazines like L3, such as prominent images and advertising of artists. However, some conventions are challenged, like using a wider color scheme and more descriptive article headings to appeal to a broader audience beyond just the niche Soca genre. The overall analysis is that while adhering to many regular genre forms, some conventions are subverted to try expanding the target readership.
The document provides research on fanzines and magazines to help inform the creation of a fanzine about Silverstone racing circuit. Key points learned include using bold colors and fonts to catch readers' attention, incorporating a mix of formal and informal writing styles, and including interviews and news relevant to the topic. Reference materials examined include existing fanzines about football clubs and motorsports that demonstrate effective design techniques. Historical information is also summarized about Silverstone circuit itself to provide content for the new fanzine.
The document discusses the design elements and conventions used in the media product, a magazine. It describes the page numbers, masthead, photography style, fonts, color scheme, pull quote, writing style, and how these elements represent the intended audience and attract readers. The goal is to emulate conventions of real magazines like Kerrang while appealing to fans of punk rock bands like My Chemical Romance. Photoshop skills were applied to arrange photos and text professionally. Overall, the document shows how conventions were adopted and adapted to target a specific demographic.
The document discusses the ways in which the author's magazine designs use and develop conventions of real magazines.
For the magazine cover, the author uses typical conventions like a masthead at the top and a medium shot for the main image. However, the placement of the strapline at the bottom challenges conventions.
For the double-page spread, the use of different colored text in a Q&A format follows conventions, while just using the subject's name for the title develops conventions.
The contents page keeps many elements conventional, like a background image and listing content, but overlaps images in a way atypical of real magazines.
The author aims to represent social group E, ages 18-25, through
This document provides guidance on presentation methods for evaluations, including Popplet, Prezi, Padlet, and video/screen recordings. It also includes evaluation questions about representing social groups in media products and distributing media products through publishing houses. Students are asked to discuss how their media product uses or challenges conventions of real media products, represents particular social groups, and which media institution might distribute their product. Suggested publishing houses include Bauer Media, which distributes magazines like Kerrang. Students are asked to consider revenue expectations in the first year of distribution.
The document evaluates a music magazine created by Kelsea as part of a preliminary task. The magazine, called POPPIN, targets teenage girls and combines music and fashion content. Kelsea discusses the codes and conventions used in the magazine's front cover, contents page, and double page spread to make it appear like a realistic publication and appeal to its target demographic. Feedback from 20 people indicated the colorful layout was most attractive and they felt the magazine targeted females and teenagers. Kelsea reflects on learning how to use new software and represent ideas visually through photos.
The document discusses the conventions used in magazine design and how the student's media product adheres to or challenges conventions.
The front cover uses conventions like a large masthead, cover lines, quotes, date/issue info. It challenges conventions by placing the barcode in the top corner rather than bottom.
The contents page uses conventions like the masthead, images of featured people, large page numbers. It challenges conventions by having images take up more space.
The double page spread uses conventions like a large headline, images opposite text, pull quotes, matching color scheme. It aims to look professional while engaging readers.
The document discusses the student's magazine project and how it represents conventions of real music magazines. Some key points:
- The magazine masthead takes stylistic cues from Kerrang magazine to look worn and old.
- Section headings and splitting the contents page is commonly done in music magazines.
- Text formatting and layout choices like uneven boxes and left-aligned text give the magazine a scruffy look fitting its music genre focus.
- The magazine's colors, fonts and featured bands are meant to attract its target audience of 15-21 year olds interested in alternative rock genres.
The document discusses conventions used in magazine cover design. It explains that the main image on the cover slightly overlaps the masthead to draw attention but not cover too much of it for a first issue. It also discusses placing the banner at the bottom instead of the top of the cover to make the masthead more prominent. Grid techniques like the rule of thirds are used to position the main image and models' eye lines. Larger, bolder text is used to make important lines stand out.
AS media evaluations question 1.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Josh Webb
The document discusses conventions in magazine design and how the magazine cover and pages conform and challenge various conventions. It notes how the cover follows conventions like placing the barcode and issue number in the bottom right, using a celebrity endorsement, and using a bold masthead. However, it challenges conventions by only having one main image rather than multiple on the cover. The contents page challenges conventions by not using a main image and instead using multiple preview images. Throughout the magazine, conventions are followed like using consistent colors and placing the masthead and page numbers. However, conventions are also challenged, like not using a grab quote on the double page spread.
The document discusses how the media product follows and challenges conventions of real magazines. It follows conventions like using a masthead, rule of thirds layout, issue date, and barcodes. However, it challenges conventions such as having a non-seductive cover image and not listing the issue date on the contents page to seem more modern. It also follows conventions for layouts and designs on the contents page, double page article spread, and individual article layout while adding unique design elements. The goal is to balance familiar conventions with new approaches.
The document discusses how the media product follows and challenges conventions of real magazines. It follows conventions like using a masthead, rule of thirds layout, issue date and barcode. However, it challenges conventions like having a non-seductive cover image and not listing the issue date on the contents page to seem more modern. It also follows conventions for the contents like repeating the masthead and adding numbers by articles but challenges using varied dark/light images to require more attention. The double page spread follows conventions like a live performance image but develops titles and pulls quotes by merging them.
The document discusses how the media product follows and challenges conventions of real magazines. It follows conventions like using a masthead, rule of thirds layout, issue date, and barcodes. However, it challenges conventions such as having a non-seductive cover image and not listing the issue date on the contents page to seem more modern. It also follows conventions for the contents like repeating the masthead and adding numbers by articles but challenges using varied image tones. The double page spread follows conventions like a live performance image but develops merged titles and quotes.
The document provides details about a student's preliminary project to create a magazine for their media studies course. It includes research on the target audience of 16-18 year old students, familiarization with design software like Photoshop and InDesign, planning pages for a magazine cover and contents page, taking photos to use for the magazine, and constructing a sample double-page spread. Reflections on the project note areas for improvement like cover lines, image positioning, and use of columns and grids.
In this document, the author summarizes how their media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real magazines. They used conventions like including a masthead on the front cover and contents page for branding. They developed conventions by using a drop shadow on the masthead and softer color scheme. The author challenged conventions by using muted colors instead of bright ones typically seen in rock magazines. Across multiple pages, the author both adopted typical magazine layouts but also developed them by using a more formal, structured style.
- The magazine follows conventions such as placing the masthead in the top left corner and cover lines near the main image to attract readers' attention.
- It challenges some conventions by moving the masthead to the right and having simpler cover stories and contents pages with relevant colors.
- While the magazine represents fans of drum and bass music, it also aims to attract other music fans through its use of dark colors contrasted with brighter tones.
- The magazine follows conventions such as placing the masthead in the top left corner and cover lines near the main image to attract readers' attention.
- It challenges some conventions by moving the masthead to the right and having simpler cover stories and contents pages with relevant colors.
- While the magazine represents fans of drum and bass music, it also aims to attract other music fans through its use of dark colors contrasted with brighter ones.
The document provides details about the process of creating a dance music magazine as a media product. It describes conducting a survey to identify the target audience as mainly male aged 16-26 interested in dance music genres like house and acid house. Inspiration was taken from existing magazines like Mixmag in terms of design conventions. The magazine aims to appeal to its target audience through the cover star, articles and representing associated subcultures. It will be distributed monthly through an existing publisher and promoted at music festivals.
- The magazine uses conventions typical of music magazines like having the name in bold letters at the top with the logo, but also challenges some conventions.
- It includes features expected on magazine covers like the price and barcode, and follows conventions for layouts inside like the double page spread.
- The magazine represents its target audience of 16-21 year old "indie" teenagers through its images, language, and music-focused content and features.
This document discusses how the media product created by the author uses and challenges conventions of real magazines.
The author uses several common magazine conventions in their product, such as a bold title font, barcode, advertising the main article, brand recognition, date and issue number, subheadings, captions, and text overlaying images.
Some conventions are challenged, such as using a black and white front cover image and female model, not including small pictures on the front cover, and having only one main picture per page rather than multiple small images.
The author also discusses representing their target audience of teenage girls, an appropriate distributing institution, attracting their audience through color scheme and tone of voice, and the technologies and skills learned
The document discusses how the product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It summarizes how the author looked at the music magazine "Kerrang!" and incorporated several design elements into their own music magazine cover design, including masthead positioning and font, thumbnail images and headers, and positioning multiple models behind one another. It also discusses incorporating elements from "Q" magazine into the contents page design, such as thumbnail images, boxed headers, layered overlapping images, large angled headers, and page numbers. The author represents gender through clothing choices and positioning. It discusses how the double page spread incorporates images and text layout. Finally, it decides that Bauer Media Group would be an appropriate media institution to distribute the magazine
Kelsey Wheeler created a magazine aimed at teenage and young female audiences interested in musicals. Through research, Kelsey found that the audience was broader than initially thought, including some male and homosexual readers. Kelsey used techniques like eye-catching colors and direct address on the cover to target this audience. The layout and style of the magazine followed conventions of the genre to appeal to readers. Through the process, Kelsey learned the importance of planning and research, and improved skills with technologies like Photoshop.
The document describes the design process and conventions used in creating a magazine called Ciretone. It took inspiration from popular music magazines like NME, Q, and Mixmag. Elements like a masthead, cover image overlapping the masthead, slanted headlines, and multiple interior images were adopted. The color scheme and use of images and pull quotes to highlight articles were also conventional magazine techniques. However, the interior article contained more written content than other contemporary magazines. The magazine's design aimed to positively represent teenagers by presenting a role model in an interview, challenging negative stereotypes commonly found in media.
2. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
media products?
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3. My Front Cover.
My front cover sticks mainly to the social conventions made by
other magazines. The main image used is a mid shot of the
model, the model is looking directly at the reader to create a
sense that the model is looking back at you as you look at her.
This technique is used in many magazines as it helps connect
with the audience. A large masthead is used to help the reader
easily identify the magazine and the strap line is included just
below the masthead, similar to magazines such as “Kerrang”.
My cover challenges forms of social convention by only showing
one eye of the model. I decided to do this so my model looked
more connected to the genre that my music was based on. I
also included 4 pictures of the same model, this allowed me to
give the consumers an extra reason to buy the magazine by
showing some of the free items that were inside.
Many magazines stick to a very similar style of fonts, for
example 2 or 3 different fonts, in this piece I have used close to
six different fonts. This helps the magazine look edgy and
modern compared to more formal styles of magazine.
Compared to having a separate logo and masthead separately
we created a combination of them both. This idea is relatively
unused in the media world and allowed us to save space on the
cover, as well as having a logo and a masthead to utilize further
on in the magazine.
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4. My Front Cover.
Many social conventions have been kept when taking and
selecting the images that should be used for my cover.
The model selected can easily link to other artists and
fans of the pop-punk genre, This is because of her hair
style. The bright colour shows a creative person and the
fringe that is swept over one eye shows a lack of respect
to the more organized genre showing that pop-punk fans
and artists alike are very outgoing. All of the other
pictures show models that are wearing very basic
clothing, this allows teenage fans to easily copy them .
The font used for the Masthead of this magazine is very
similar to what you might find in a typical American
highschool, which is where a lot of bands who play this
genre of music are from. The stereotype for a person
who plays this style of music is very open, they can
either be happy and fun (ie, Jaret Reddick – Bowling for
Soup) or very dark and mysterious (ie, Taylor Momsen –
The Pretty Reckless.) I decided to choose a picture which
could suggest both, similar to the Mona Lisa. This
allowed the piece to link with more than one type of
punk fan.
5. My Contents Page.
My contents page sticks to many of the existing social
conventions made by real media products, for example the
listing used were examples that are already in many magazines.
The colours used stuck to a colour scheme that runs through the
entire magazine which is utilized fully by most magazine
creators. We included a section titled “WIN” this was used on
many contents pages so when the reader opens it to see what’s
in the magazine they have a further incentive to buy it.
I challenged media conventions by including a dark picture on
my contents page. I did this because I wanted the image to
merge into the background whilst still sticking to the colour
scheme of the magazine.
I developed many media conventions in this piece. For example
in the lists I made each bands name bold, I did this so that when
the reader views the contents page its easier to see which bands
are included in this magazine and by highlighting the bands it
gives the consumer a better reason to buy the magazine. I also
included a new section our group came up with called “Word On
The Street” this gives the reader an insight to what might be
included in future issues of the magazine and gives them a
chance to listen to them before hand.
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6. My Contents Page.
Again I used the American highschool style font as it
was part of our house style. The image used on this
page is of a young person doing a stunt on a bmx bike.
The model is wearing quite modern clothing which could
link to our genre of music, A “Ramones” jumper. Our
chosen music style links very strongly with the whole
BMX/Skateboarding scene. This link can be found in
many existing music videos, such as “Fat Lip” by
Sum41.
The image in the bottom left corner shows a model
swearing. By using this image it helps the magazine as
a whole link to an older group of people, a group where
swearing publicly will be something to award. Again this
model is wearing a pop-culture based article of clothing.
Something that is easily available to buy and liked by a
large group of people.
7. My Double Page Spread.
My double page spread follows the social conventions
made by the media world more closely compared to
the other pages. Firstly a mid shot of my model, used
on the front cover is used, covering two pages with the
model on one side and the majority of text on the
other. The masthead is the largest thing on the page
which gives us an insight to the piece. A pulled quote is
used in empty space to give an anecdote to the piece
but also fill unused space. In the bottom right hand
corner the page number is listed which corresponds to
the contents page allowing the reader to navigate the
magazine more easily. The text is placed on slightly
transparent backgrounds to allow for easy reading. This
technique is used by many major magazine companies
to avoid cutting sections out of the image.
I developed social conventions by instead of using basic smaller images on my page I made the smaller
images look like Polaroid pictures. I did this because the white background around the images makes them
stand out more, also because much of the content inside the article is about the past, for example the
section about “Simply Red”, it helps link further to the article.
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8. My Double
Page Spread.
The photos used on this double page spread
were all taken at the local skatepark. Being
accepted at a skatepark is usually something
that comes with age, As well as again using
sport as another link to the teenage genre this
DPS is very socially conventional. The contrast
of the faces the model is pulling shows the
large variety of moods the pop punk genre can
portray. The large image shows the model
looking quite stern, which contrasts to the
image of her smiling when riding on the bike.
The positioning of the model makes her look
very natural but also desirable. By showing her
fixing her hair it allows girls who read these
style of magazines to realise that not
everyone's perfect, not even celebrities. This is
a large contrast to what is often shown in “Pop”
magazines.
Again a Pop-culture based t-shirt is used. By
doing this we also create a link to an older
audience who would often remember certain
memories by seeing these images.