Friday, 11 December 2009
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From looking back at my preliminary task, i feel that i have learnt alot since i started such as the media conventions used in magazines and the music conventions. Such as layout, text, font and house style. The magazine which i refered to throughout my project was the XXL magazine. It was one of the best Hip-hop magazines in britain.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
What I have learnt about technologies from this process of constructing this product is that
programmes like Macromedia Fireworks and Photoshop can be used to manipulate and construde photographs which is exactly what published magazines do. The whole point of manipulating the photographs is to make them more appealing to the reader so they'll buy the magazine.
On Fireworks you can create layers, where on an image you can put another image on top of that or 'layer' and you can manipulate the images by rotating it, colouring it, constructing it.
programmes like Macromedia Fireworks and Photoshop can be used to manipulate and construde photographs which is exactly what published magazines do. The whole point of manipulating the photographs is to make them more appealing to the reader so they'll buy the magazine.
On Fireworks you can create layers, where on an image you can put another image on top of that or 'layer' and you can manipulate the images by rotating it, colouring it, constructing it.
How did you attract/address your audience?
My colour palete is Black, Red, Pink. I got these colours by giving a questionnaire to my target audience and asking which colours they would like to see in a hip-hop and RnB magazine.
I used the font 'you are loved' and 'Love Ya Like A...' and 'Bernard MT Condensed'.
I have taken my images of my model as a professional photographer as many of the magazines i researched their photographs of their models were very well done in one location in a variety of poses. I took shots from many different angles such as a close up, mid-body shot and a full body shot. The language i used is quite informal as if your talking to your friend.
I used the font 'you are loved' and 'Love Ya Like A...' and 'Bernard MT Condensed'.
I have taken my images of my model as a professional photographer as many of the magazines i researched their photographs of their models were very well done in one location in a variety of poses. I took shots from many different angles such as a close up, mid-body shot and a full body shot. The language i used is quite informal as if your talking to your friend.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The age of my will be 16-35
They will be mainly Boys but some girls who are also intrested in Hip-hop and RnB music.
They will be Lower - Middle Class young people.
Black/White
They will be in higher education like, Sixth form, College, University or in appreticeships
They will be intrested in football, hip-hop and RnB music and would like to keep up to date with the latest music.
If they were in a Youth Tribe they would probably be 'Chavs' or 'Laydback'
They will be mainly Boys but some girls who are also intrested in Hip-hop and RnB music.
They will be Lower - Middle Class young people.
Black/White
They will be in higher education like, Sixth form, College, University or in appreticeships
They will be intrested in football, hip-hop and RnB music and would like to keep up to date with the latest music.
If they were in a Youth Tribe they would probably be 'Chavs' or 'Laydback'
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
My music magazine 'RECORDZ' would be duistributed by a music media instituation that distribute things maily to do with music such as CD's to music stores and music magazines to newsagents and shopping stores. So it shall be distributed thorugh one of the big publishing houses as they'll have experience in producing magazines and will have teams dedicated to research and knowing where to sell the magazine such as which news agents will be best ones near colleges or schools or big sumermarkets that lots of people visit everyday or a big train station as many people young and old go through there everyday.
I would want my magazine to be part of a big publishing house as i would need lots of money to back me, even though i might not get all the profits as to if i was an independant magazine but if i was independant i wouldnt be able to advertise my magazine properly so that people know it and recognise it. Other wise i wont be able to do that without the money rom the big publishing house.
My music magazine 'RECORDZ' would be duistributed by a music media instituation that distribute things maily to do with music such as CD's to music stores and music magazines to newsagents and shopping stores. So it shall be distributed thorugh one of the big publishing houses as they'll have experience in producing magazines and will have teams dedicated to research and knowing where to sell the magazine such as which news agents will be best ones near colleges or schools or big sumermarkets that lots of people visit everyday or a big train station as many people young and old go through there everyday.
I would want my magazine to be part of a big publishing house as i would need lots of money to back me, even though i might not get all the profits as to if i was an independant magazine but if i was independant i wouldnt be able to advertise my magazine properly so that people know it and recognise it. Other wise i wont be able to do that without the money rom the big publishing house.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In my magazine It dosnt really represent one type of social group its a magazine for anyone who like Hip-hop and RnB music they can be Upper class or Lower class. If i were to put a name on them i would probably be for lower class and middle class young people who are more likely to like these types of genre of music as upper and higher class people would probably enjoy a more classical or west end magazine. They are not really represented but i do have pictures of a young RnB singer who rised from being a lower class girl into a singing sensation.
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Questionnaire
1.) How often do you buy or read Music Magazines?
Daily [ ] Weekly [ ] Monthly [ ] Yearly [ ]
2.) If so which Genre of magazine do you buy?
R&B [ ] Classical [ ] Rock [ ] Pop [ ] Hip hop/ Rap [ ]
3.)
Daily [ ] Weekly [ ] Monthly [ ] Yearly [ ]
2.) If so which Genre of magazine do you buy?
R&B [ ] Classical [ ] Rock [ ] Pop [ ] Hip hop/ Rap [ ]
3.)
Target Audience
The target audience for my magazine will be for some females but mainly males. As mostly malesare intrested in Hip-hop than men but the R&B part of the magazine will intrst and appeal to the reader. The age for my magazine will be from 16 + years of age, so people in their early teens and upwards. I made my magazine's advert's appealing to males by appealing to their love of gadgets and beautiful women. I based some of my key demographics on XXL as it's also a Hip-hop and R&B genre magazine aswell. I want my magazine to appeal to both men and women, i wll aim more for targeting the men.
Picture Comparison
· I posed in the same way as Jay Sean –
1. looking off to the left
2. mouth closed
3. eyes focused
4. only the right ear is showing.
· I also had limited resources so I couldn’t take the picture in front of a background like Jay Sean’s but a similar one that is plain white.
1. looking off to the left
2. mouth closed
3. eyes focused
4. only the right ear is showing.
· I also had limited resources so I couldn’t take the picture in front of a background like Jay Sean’s but a similar one that is plain white.
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