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

2. The masthead is in the conventional Date and issue number in the top right
position of a magazine page: top left hand hand corner of the screen which is
corner. I have used the first letter of ‘guap’ where it is usually found or can also be
and made it a larger size to the rest, this is found by the barcode, however I had
similar to what Vibe do and I used their some dead space on the right hand side
magazine to inspire me to make the towards the top of the screen so I
masthead like this. It also sticks to the black decided to put it there.
red and white colour scheme. Guap is a hip- The Image is a medium shot of my
hop term for the word money, so it is feature artist Andre Walters which I
linked with the genre and also very short have placed slight right of the centre
and snappy which will make the magazine of the screen. My main reason for
more recognisable. It is used in a lot of doing this was because my masthead
lyrics of hip-hop songs and the hip-hop is quite big so it would of took up the
artist big sean also named a song guap. The majority of his face if it was in the
meaning of the word being money may also centre, but also due to my magazine
attract luxurious and executive people too. being a magazine I wanted to make my
Coverline is actually a pull quote from the front cover have some unconventional
article in my magazine and is also linked to features as the genre is an
the feature artist in the image. I have stuck unconventional genre.
to the colour scheme with the red and used
Barcode in the bottom right hand side
informal language and also used language
which is a conventional idea of an
that can be linked to the hip-hop genre like
original magazine as this is where it is
‘trippy’ and the phrase ‘for real’. The
found on the majority of not only music
language in the pull quote were found on
magazines but all magazines.
blogs and research on the internet.
Band at bottom of page is found on
Main coverline is Andre Walters which is in many magazines and is used to give an
white as I felt it would stand out more in insight of what is inside the magazine.
front of the image rather than using red or On my magazine I have used this bar to
black, Andre Walters is also the name of the show my background knowledge on the
feature artist. The coverline is also in capital hip-hop genre and have included some
letters with an effect to to make it stand out big artist names in the hip-hop genre.
more. The stars are also connected to the
genre, it also sticks to the designated
colour cheme.

3. Masthead has been carried across to the contents
page which is in almost every magazine I have read so
it is very common. I have also carried acroos the style
of the masthead too with the use of the large G with
contents fitted inside it. Again the masthead has an
effect on too make it stand out from the white
background.
Date and issue number this has also been carried
across like in most magazines, which is placed in the
right top hand corner of the page and is slightly
above the masthead. This is also in red matching
the G following the colour scheme.
The images are of two artists. One is a medium
close up of an artist who is making eye contact with
the camera who is wearing a leather hooded jacket
which many hip-hop artists wear. The second image
is of the feature artist which is a medium long shot
and is not making eye conact with the camera. The
artist is wearing a black puffy jacket ith his hood up
which is a stereotypical outfit of a hip-hop artist. I
used two image as I wanted to include a second
artist in my magazine and 2 images are often found
on a music magazine contents page.
The numbers down the left hand side of my page
are the numbers which represent the main articles
in my magazine. They are in a larger and bolder
font to the rest of it as i wanted to do something
slightly uncoventional to a typical music magazine
and it also stands out from the rest of the page.

4. Masthead was carried over again
onto the double page spread with
the trade mark red G in the top
right hand corner of the page, this
logo would become recognised
and represent the magazine.
Pull quote as always found on a
double page spread is a pull quote
from the article, this has been
repeated from the double page
spread and is an insight of what
may be found inside the article
and may intice customers to want
to read more.
Main coverline the main
coverline in this case was the
name of the album which the
feature artist is releasing and
this is what the article actually
revolves around. It has the
same design as the film
‘topgun’ but is just lacking the
star this is one of my favourite
images and can be linked to
hip-hop as wiz khalifa who is a
massive hip-hop has the top
Image: the image is a close up of my feature artist Andre Walters who is
gun tattoo on his chest.
wearing a hoodie and Louis Vuitton millionaire sunglasses which are black
and gold which are colours linked to hip-hop. Also many hip-hop stars own Article is a question and answer styled article which goes
these glases like rick ross and drake. The image is in black and white as I through the artists journey from the bottom to the top.
thought it worked well with the close up ashot and was a slightly more The article starts with a red drop cap which continues the
unconventional approach compared to the rest of my magazine along with colour scheme. The question and answer interview is
the fact that it takes up 1 half of my double page spread which I felt looked quite commonly found in music magazines with artists.
a lot better than being slightly smaller.