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The document provides an analysis of the cover of VIBE magazine from March 2004. Some key points: - The masthead is eye-catching due to its large bold text and distinct color. Subheadings allow audiences to click on topics of interest. - VIBE magazine, founded in 1993, targets an urban audience aged 18-35 interested in R&B music. It is distributed both in print and online. - The central image of Brandy, an R&B singer, automatically attracts fans of her music and the genre. Her provocative outfit and expression relate to the magazine's focus on celebrity and culture.
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Evaluation: Part 5
The document discusses how the author addressed and attracted their target audience of youthful teenagers in their magazine design. Key elements incorporated include social media logos to connect to the audience's online interests, a bold masthead featuring the word "base" to reference hip hop music, contrasting colors to make elements stand out, models wearing clothing brands popular with hip hop artists that the audience admires, and cover lines using hip hop jargon to intrigue readers. The contents page similarly features real life rappers, diverse model poses, and social media logos to attract and engage the youthful audience. Formats like two contrasting images on a double page spread and contrasting fonts are used to make information more visually interesting.
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Masthead ideas
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Evaluation Question 4
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Masthead One
The document discusses the design choices for a magazine masthead. It describes using a deep red color overlay created in Photoshop to represent strength, power and passion. The font symbolizes the 1960s nostalgic rock genre of Jimi Hendrix and connotes the hippy era. While the older audience may appreciate the nostalgic elements, a modern twist on the font could attract younger audiences and teens to the magazine focusing on rock from that era.
Ev question 2
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Question two
The media product represents particular social groups in the following ways:
- The front cover appeals mainly to 16-21 year old females but may alienate those interested in rock music. Males and older groups also feel less represented by the pink color scheme and young model.
- The contents page continues the pink color scheme, further alienating males who prefer darker colors. However, females feel comfortable with the layout and colors.
- Images on the pages are meant to represent and relate to the target audience of young females through depictions of festivals and a carefree young model. Other social groups like males and elders feel more isolated.
Unit 13 LO1
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine that focuses on R&B and hip hop artists. It targets mainly males aged 16-25 who follow urban and hip hop culture. While originally a print magazine, it moved to being online-only in 2014 due to advancing technology and readers spending more time online. Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine that focuses on rock music. It targets males aged 17-28 and provides news and updates about rock bands. Both magazines go through an editing and layout process before content is sent to printers for mass distribution to shops and newsstands.
LO1
The document provides an analysis of the magazines Vibe and Kerrang!. It begins with an introduction to Vibe, describing its focus on R&B and hip hop artists. Sections then analyze various aspects of Vibe's format, including its target audience of 16-25 year old males interested in urban culture, website layout, front covers, contents pages and article spreads. Similar analyses are provided for Kerrang!'s focus on rock music and formats. Production processes for magazines are also summarized, outlining key steps from setting a publication date to distribution.
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Evaluation question 5
The document summarizes how a magazine addressed and attracted its intended audience.
It used design elements like a graffiti font on the cover that appealed to hip hop fans. Photos of rappers in different outfits allowed readers to feel connected. Pull quotes and celebrity interviews and photos helped readers relate and aspire. The color scheme, fonts, and visuals created a prestigious style while representing hip hop culture. Overall the magazine supported underground artists, addressed readers through slang, and provided social interaction and inspiration to attract its target audience.
Evaluation Question 4
The target audience for the media product is predominantly 16-20 year olds based on the results of a questionnaire where 100% of respondents in that age group said they would read the magazine. The audience would also come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, as respondents said they would pay £1 for it. While some readers may be in education and others not, jazz music fans would enjoy the magazine. The style and language used in the magazine may appeal more to younger than older readers. Images included in the magazine like alcohol and vintage clothing brands help portray the likely interests of the target demographic. The audience may skew more male than female given jazz's historical association with late night venues, though the magazine aims to encourage greater diversity.
Name of magazine
LOOK magazine has a circulation of 200,265 and is published weekly. It has a target audience of young, middle-class women interested in fashion, celebrity gossip, and lifestyle content. Both the print and online magazines use a similar color scheme and font styles to create a consistent brand image and appeal to their target demographic. The website layout focuses on easy navigation between fashion, beauty, and celebrity sections to mirror the magazine's organization of content.
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The document discusses the codes and conventions used in music magazines including Q Magazine, Kerrang!, and Billboard. Some common conventions discussed include:
- Using large, prominent images of artists that take up an entire page to highlight their importance.
- Employing direct eye contact in photos to create a personal connection with readers.
- Organizing articles in columns for easy reading.
- Maintaining consistent color schemes and fonts to build brand recognition over time.
- Including additional photos on double page spreads to provide more insight into the featured artist.
Magazine proposals
1) The document discusses the design choices for an R&B magazine, including using a maximum of three complimentary colors, bold fonts, and striking images that portray confidence and swagger.
2) The target audience is ages 15-25, both male and female, though R&B appeals widely across ages.
3) A sample article will feature the author's sister trying to break into the music industry with a Q&A style piece.
Presentation2
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Nme double page
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Q5
The document discusses the design of a house music magazine to attract its target audience. It aimed to present a bright and fun style while also conveying a darker, more mysterious side through its colors and layout. Photographs of the magazine's model were carefully lit and composed to be clear without any glare or obscurity. The front cover and contents page advertised articles about music events, songs, and gifts that would interest readers interested in house music. The contents page also provided brief descriptions of each article to pique readers' curiosity.
Rock Sound Magazine Analysis
This magazine cover features artists Twenty One Pilots, 5 Seconds of Summer, and Halsey to attract different audiences to the rock magazine. The contents are organized with all similar articles grouped together rather than scattered. It also includes small previews of each article. The main article on Halsey profiles her music and discusses how she has gained fans from other genres and bands, to interest readers unfamiliar with her work.
Poser
This document summarizes the key aspects of a music magazine media product called "Poser". The magazine targets teenagers aged 16-20 and represents urban social groups interested in R&B music. It was influenced by the layout and style of Vibe magazine. Feedback from audiences helped refine the magazine to better attract its target demographic through the use of urban-styled imagery, relevant artist coverage, and consistent colors of green, white and black throughout.
Poser
This document summarizes the key aspects of a music magazine media product called "Poser". The magazine targets teenagers aged 16-20 and represents urban social groups interested in R&B music. It was influenced by the layout and style of Vibe magazine. Feedback from audiences helped refine the magazine to better attract its target demographic through the use of urban-styled imagery, relevant artist coverage, and consistent colors of green, white and black throughout.
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This document summarizes how the media product, an R&B music magazine called "Poser", represents and targets particular social groups. The magazine targets teenagers aged 16-25 through its urban style with graffiti-inspired fonts and colors of green, white, and black. Images of black and Asian models also represent particular racial groups. Teen language in headlines helps attract teenage readers. The $1.99 price makes it affordable for students. Females are the primary audience through fashion advertisements and poses of female models. The magazine would be distributed by similar urban music magazines like Vibe to reach its target teenage demographic.
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The document discusses the design choices made for various elements of an indie music magazine to attract an audience. For the front cover, direct address is used in the main image of an artist holding a guitar to signal it is a music magazine. Cover lines provide information about articles without obscuring the artist's face. The masthead uses the word "INDIGO" as a play on "indie" to identify the magazine's genre. Gender-neutral colors are used throughout to appeal to both male and female readers. The contents page includes band images and follows a readable layout to look enjoyable. The double-page spread features a gig photo across both pages with differently colored text for readability and informal language to attract teenagers.
Masthead One
The document discusses the design choices for a magazine masthead. It describes using a deep red color overlay created in Photoshop to represent strength, power and passion. The font symbolizes the 1960s nostalgic rock genre of Jimi Hendrix and connotes the hippy era. While the older audience may appreciate the nostalgic elements, a modern twist on the font could attract younger audiences and teens to the magazine focusing on rock from that era.
Masthead One
The document discusses the design choices for a magazine masthead. It describes using a deep red color overlay created in Photoshop to represent strength, power and passion. The font symbolizes the 1960s nostalgic rock genre of Jimi Hendrix and connotes the hippy era. While the older audience may appreciate the nostalgic elements, a modern twist on the font could attract younger audiences and teens to the magazine focusing on rock from that era.
Ev question 2
This document discusses the design choices made for a magazine targeting white British teenagers and young adults aged 16-18. On the front cover, a male model aged 18 is featured in a style of dress stereotypical of indie singer-songwriters to appeal to that audience. A double page spread features a female model in a way that goes against conventions of sexualization, aiming to appeal to both male and female readers. Shot types and layouts were selected to build relationships between readers and models while maintaining a minimalist, calming style.
Question two
The media product represents particular social groups in the following ways:
- The front cover appeals mainly to 16-21 year old females but may alienate those interested in rock music. Males and older groups also feel less represented by the pink color scheme and young model.
- The contents page continues the pink color scheme, further alienating males who prefer darker colors. However, females feel comfortable with the layout and colors.
- Images on the pages are meant to represent and relate to the target audience of young females through depictions of festivals and a carefree young model. Other social groups like males and elders feel more isolated.
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Unit 13 LO1
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine that focuses on R&B and hip hop artists. It targets mainly males aged 16-25 who follow urban and hip hop culture. While originally a print magazine, it moved to being online-only in 2014 due to advancing technology and readers spending more time online. Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine that focuses on rock music. It targets males aged 17-28 and provides news and updates about rock bands. Both magazines go through an editing and layout process before content is sent to printers for mass distribution to shops and newsstands.
LO1
The document provides an analysis of the magazines Vibe and Kerrang!. It begins with an introduction to Vibe, describing its focus on R&B and hip hop artists. Sections then analyze various aspects of Vibe's format, including its target audience of 16-25 year old males interested in urban culture, website layout, front covers, contents pages and article spreads. Similar analyses are provided for Kerrang!'s focus on rock music and formats. Production processes for magazines are also summarized, outlining key steps from setting a publication date to distribution.
Unit 13 - LO1
This document provides an outline for an analysis of the magazines Vibe and Kerrang!. It includes sections on context, meaning, form and style, target audiences, website and cover analyses, and production processes for both magazines. The outline contains 20 sections in total, with subsections analyzing elements like logos, images, layouts, and target demographics. It will use this structure to analyze and compare key aspects of the two music magazines.
All analysis
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Magazine examples
The document analyzes the design elements of various magazine covers and pages.
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In contrast, a magazine called Q uses a revealing photo of Beyoncé on the cover along with masculine colors and layout, signaling its target audience is primarily adult males.
The contents of a magazine aimed at teenage girls uses pink and yellow colors, rounded letters, and images next to article titles to make it easier for a younger audience to read.
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1) The magazine covers and mastheads prominently feature popular celebrities to attract readers who are fans of those artists.
2) The layouts use bold text, large images and clear formatting to make the contents easily navigable and grab readers' attention.
3) The articles and photos aim to showcase aspects of hip hop culture like fashion, language and lifestyle that will appeal to the target audiences of both male and female youth.
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Analysis of Music magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads from Q, Vibe and Billboard magazine.
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Yelim Chung analyzed various music magazines to understand generic conventions like placement of cover lines and mastheads. This informed the design of their own music magazine featuring fictional artists across genres like hip hop, pop and R&B. Feedback from a target audience of 16-30 year olds was also gathered. While some conventions like multiple colors were omitted, the simplistic style drew inspiration from Billboard magazine to effectively engage the intended youth audience.
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This magazine cover is for Kerrang, a punk rock magazine targeted at young people aged 14-25. The large, bold masthead stands out and has a smashed effect, reflecting the rebellious genre. The central image shows the tattooed singer of Bring Me the Horizon using direct address to entice readers. Cover lines promote other artists featured in bold, pink text. The model credit and advertisements promise coverage of Bring Me the Horizon's UK tour and free posters inside to attract buyers.
Print Pro Forma
The document analyzes and summarizes the key elements of magazine front covers and double page spreads across different genres including Harper's Bazaar, NME, PC Gamer. For the Harper's Bazaar front cover, it identifies the masthead, cover lines, celebrity endorsement and typography. The double page spread breakdown examines elements like the masthead, stand first, typography and conventions. Website summaries analyze color themes, images, mastheads and cover lines. Other magazines are similarly broken down focusing on mastheads, cover lines, images and conventions to understand the essential information presented.
AS Media Final Evaluation
The document discusses pop music and media representation. It then provides details about how the author constructed their music magazine, including following conventions of real magazines, representing social groups, choosing a media institution for distribution, attracting their target audience of teenage girls and young women, and what they learned about technology from the process.
Contents page analysis
The document provides an analysis of the contents pages from two magazines - Vibe and XXL. For Vibe, the contents page features Kanye West and analyzes design elements like fonts, backgrounds, and West's posed image. For XXL, the contents focuses on artist B.O.B, examining the title text, subtitle, and B.O.B's image which presents a serious facial expression and casual clothing. Both contents pages are analyzed for how they engage audiences through visuals and text related to the featured artists.
music magazine analysis
The document provides an analysis of the front cover, contents pages, and double page spreads of magazines.
The front cover analysis discusses design elements like the large masthead, Nicki Minaj image, and color scheme used to attract attention. The contents page analysis describes the clear structure and headings to help readers find information.
The double page spread analysis examines the layout, colors, images, and columns used to make the celebrity interview accessible while reflecting the subject's personality. Overall, the document evaluates how magazine design features engage audiences and represent subjects.
Contents page analysis
The document provides an analysis of the contents pages from music magazines Vibe and XXL. It summarizes the key design elements of each contents page, including fonts, backgrounds, images of artists, and positioning of information. The Vibe analysis focuses on the page's modern font, background, image of Kanye West reflecting his personal pain, and placement of article titles. The XXL analysis discusses the informal title "doin' lines," image of B.O.B. showing his normal style, and how elements appeal to the target rap audience.
Evaluation
- The document discusses the construction of a music magazine focused on R&B. The front cover features a young black male model in trendy clothing, following conventions of typical R&B magazines.
- The magazine represents social groups by including other races on inside pages to expand the target audience beyond just black people. The language is informal to appeal to teenage and young adult readers.
- Major media institutions like Time Inc. that distribute similar magazines would be good places to distribute the magazine for wide accessibility. The target audience is teenagers and young adults who would find the celebrity coverage and music interesting.
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- 1. By Andrew Thomas - Pemagbi
- 2. The masthead (VIBE) clearly stands out on the top left of website, it is bold, in a large text and in a different colour to the rest of the text on the website which would make it more eye catching. Target audience would straight away be able to see the name of the page that they are looking at. Also there are subheadings giving different niche audiences a chance to click on the particular topic that they want to look at. Furthermore they give an opportunity for the audience to interact with Vibe more and find the website a lot easier by downloading the map on their phone. Also they provide a search tool bar; making it easier for the reader to find what they are interested thus making the website more convenient for the reader.
- 6. • VIBE magazine was founded by an author called Quincy Jones and launched in 1993. Sold at $4.99, VIBE being an urban R&B magazine which it perhaps to targeted to the middle class. Target audience I would perhaps say is from 18 – 35. VIBE mainly distribute their magazine online which means an easy and 24/7 access to buy however do sell some of its magazine at stores mainly based in the USA. The magazine often attracts its audience through having popular R&B starts like Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Brandy, Drake etc. as its main central image as the cover. It normally provides music reviews, celebrities gossip, upcoming artists and pages on high end designer clothing. So as you can see VIBE magazine mainly appeals to the urban type of audience.
- 8. I could automatically tell that VIBE is a well known magazine as the central image cover some of it maybe suggesting that the audience already knows the name of the magazine. This highlights the success of the magazine because the model is purposely digitally placed on top of the masthead which suggests that the target audience wouldn’t need to know what they are purchasing. Also I can see the web address next to the masthead perhaps making it easy to find however it shadows under the masthead as it is in a smaller text which highlights the importance of the masthead. The web address may also be used for the audience to perhaps search more into VIBE magazine and probably gives them a chance to view VIBE online if they may not be able to purchase it at a store.
- 9. The model used for the central image is a famous R&B artist which relates to one of the genres that the magazine mainly features. Brandy being a famous R&B singer would automatically attract a niche audience as it would attract people who like listening to her music. The importance of the central image is highlighted as she covers the bottom of the I and E in the masthead. Relating to the target audience, Brandy is dressed in a seductive and provocative way as she is only wearing a bikini. This also links to the cover stories for example “sexy issue” which closely links to the central image. Furthermore she has a flirtatious smirk which again links to the lustful theme presented in the central image. Would perhaps attract young males and women.
- 10. • Main cover line closely links to the central image as it has Brandy’s name in bold and is one of the biggest texts on the cover which highlights the importance of the story. Additionally this also links to the central image as Brandy is wearing a bikini which represents the seductive and secretive direct gaze which would amuse the audience. This is emulated through the main cover story as it is practically saying ‘what is behind this mysterious persona?’.
- 11. Plugs are appealing to the eye as it is in the point purposely next to the barcode. Additionally plugs involve other artists of the genre which would most definitely be of interest to the different niche audiences within that genre. As plugs normally involve the names of other artists I believe the effect of it is to appeal to other types of audiences within the genre. This is shown to stand out on my left and a specific sequence of colours are used: yellow title; in sequence white then pink text.
- 12. Strong use of colours here as it is mainly brown for the background and pink, white and yellow for text. So as you can see it is not too busy and a simple mixture of colours used. Furthermore pink was used well on the cover as Brandy is presumably showing her behind through the central image and the word “behind” is presented in the main story as it says “what’s behind brandy”. Additionally this is linked to the sexy issue which is also in pink so which I would suggest are play on words which probably evokes that Brandy’s behind is a sexy issue.