2. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
My magazine follows most
conventions of R&B
magazines. The image on the
front cover is a close up
camera shot, the same as it is
in vibe magazine. I also
followed a simple colour
scheme for the cover lines and
made them bold and clear.
3. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
My contents page follows the
usual conventions by having
the date and issue number on
the page. I challenged
conventions by tilting the
images to give the page a bit
more character. I also didn’t
leave any dead space and
used the whole page unlike
vibe magazine on the right.
4. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
My double page spread follows a lot of
conventions of music magazines. I
used a question and answer format for
my article. I challenged conventions by
using bright colours on a dark
background to make it colourful. I only
used one page for the actual article
and had images on the other page.
This breaks up the article and makes it
easier to read and process.
5. 2. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
On my front cover the main image is
of an R&B artist with their hood up.
This is the typical imagery associated
with the R&B genre. Other imagery
associated with the genre is the bling
and gangster aspect .
6. 2. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
This image shows the artist
posing for a photo shoot and he
is posing, with attitude how a
R&B artist would do. This
represents the gangster
imagery associated with R&B.
7. 3. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
I think IPC Media would distribute my
magazine because they already
produce a number of successful
magazines and they would know the
industry inside out. One of their main
magazines, vibe, is a
massive, successful magazine in the
R&B genre. This means they would
have expert knowledge of the genre
and could help my magazine get off the
ground and become succesful.
8. 4. Who would the audience be for your media
product?
Out of the 4 consumers the audience for my magazine would
be aspirers because they have a need for status and the
esteem of others. Aspirers could relate to the artists and
products that would be featured within the magazine and it
would show them what they could have if they achieve what
they plan to. The magazine would give aspirers a goal to strive
towards.
9. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I also consulted a potential
audience through a questionnaire.
The questionnaire included various
questions on potential ideas for the
magazine. The questions ranged
from ‘What is your favourite genre
of music?’ to ‘Do you prefer
large, colourful fonts or small and
refined fonts?’. These questions
helped me a lot and helped me
choice the genre and layout of the
finished product.
10. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I addressed the audience in a very
formal manner and gave the magazine
a relaxed feel. I attracted an audience
by offering prizes in return for
participation in quizzes and
competitions within the magazine.
11. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
During the process I learned
how to use slide share. I
uploaded all of my work to
slide share where anyone can
view it. I embedded the
different presentations back
onto my blog so that my work
is easier to view on my blog.
The image on the left is my
slide share profile with all my
work uploaded onto my
profile.
12. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
In order to design and create
my front cover I had to use
adobe Photoshop. I had
never used Photoshop before
so I learnt a whole new set of
skills on how to create and
effectively edit a magazine
front cover.
13. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I put a stroke effect on the masthead ‘mixtape’ to improve its sharpness
and make it more visible on the page. The main colour on the masthead
was red so to make it stand out I used black around the edges because the
two colours contrast well.
14. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
To make my main image look sharp and bright I used the
auto levels setting on Photoshop to bring the image out
more and make it look more professional.
15. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
The main selling point in the magazine was the
exclusive interview. In order to make the cover
line more visible I increased its font size and
change the colour to gold. This meant the
cover line is the first thing you look at.
16. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I put a stroke effect around the text on my
contents page to make sure it was easily visible
on top of the background. I put a black stroke
around the white text and the two colours
contrasted to make the text more visible.
17. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
To make the images on the contents page look more
professional I put a red stroke effect around them to act as a
border.
18. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I tilted the three images on my
contents page to give my magazine
a unique edge and to give the page
some more character.
19. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
My article was displayed in a question and
answer format, so in order to differentiate
between the interviewer and interviewee I set
the different speech in different colours. I did
this by setting a blue swatch and a red swatch
and colouring the text accordingly.
20. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
In order to construct my double page spread I had to use adobe
in design. I also transferred my front cover on to in design to
create the completed magazine as a whole.
21. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
I decided to put an anchored
image alongside the text in the
article. To incorporate the image
in I had to use text wrap so that
there was no rough edges
around the image to keep the
article looking professional. By
using text wrap the wording
around the image remains
smooth with no rough edges.
22. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
Since the preliminary task I
have learnt a lot about
conventions of music
magazines. On my
preliminary task on the left my
cover lines are small and
insignificant and hard to read.
I rectified this in my main task
on the right by making the
cover lines bold and bright. In
the main task I also made
sure there was no dead
space left on the page to
make the content look full.
23. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
The contents page for my
main task was much sharper
and more professional than
my contents page from my
preliminary task. I made sure
that my main task looked
professional and not tacky
like the preliminary task. The
bright green background
doesn’t look professional and
there is still dead space on
the page. On the other hand
the contents page for my
main task is more subtle and
there is no dead space.
24. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
full product?
Since the preliminary task I have learnt how to layout and create a
double page spread. I researched into existing music magazines
and how they were laid out and applied some of those
conventions into my own double page spread.
