Double Page Spread Final

Contents Page Final

Front Cover Final

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Here is me on youtube answering question 7.

Question 6: What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Here is an animation I made on 'GoAnimate' for question 6: QUESTION 6 - TECH by ashamariapinder on GoAnimate

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Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted and addressed my audience by using layouts, fonts, images and a particular language that would appeal to them. For example my fonts were not girly or soft they were very striking, bold and dominant fonts that relate to the genre of Grime. If I wrote my magazine title in italics I don't think it would attract my target audience. My images demonstrated emotions that are shown in Grime and that is that individuals are extremely tough skinned, aggressive and intimidating. I made sure that on my front cover especially my model fitted that image. My model distinguishes the genre by her clothing, facial expression and body language. The language I use throughout my magazine is slang and broken English that young people tend to use so I stayed far away from extremely long and extravagant language instead I used a language that is more familiar to my target audience. So I used words like 'crep' this means trainers. A reader of a pop magazine would not know this perhaps but my target audience would.

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is the link for an online presentation I did for this I used prezi. http://prezi.com/aocodyql5zr6/present/?auth_key=6yj1g43&follow=62ovfqbjrq1p

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge real media products?

How I used, developed and challenged conventions of real media products?

Front cover

When it comes to how I used conventions of real media products focusing on my front cover, I did use the layout of real Grime magazines were so for example the name of the magazine is always in a bold font. When it comes to the model and the individual that is featured on the Grime magazines they always look aggressive and intimidating, I made sure this was shown on my front cover. My model is not smiling and she looks extremely fierce. Grime magazines just like most magazines use the rule of 4 when it comes to colours. In my front cover I used the colours:

·         Black

·         White

·         Blue

·         Gold

In ‘flavour’ magazine (a real Grime magazine) they used the colours:

·         Black

·         White

·         Red

·         Grey

Using 4 colours made the magazine look rather neat and it makes the readers focus more on the image and text also becomes easier to read whereas in Rock magazines for example they like to use a variety of bright colours which can create a feeling of illusion.

All the Grime magazines I came across were monthly and 'RWD' magazine puts the issue number and month of the front of their magazine so I used this convention and developed it by changing the positioning of where they put it.

Every Grime magazine I came across was free and I wanted to challenge this convention and make my magazine £2.50. When conducting my target research I found out that many young people were willing to pay for these magazines as the people who create it work so hard that they deserve to get paid. They also said that Grime magazines contain a lot of things that young people cannot really find on the TV or on the internet. So my magazine shows the price and bar code on the front cover unlike all the other Grime magazines.

Contents Page

Just like Grime magazines I also kept to a simplistic layout when it came to my contents page. Having a simplistic layout makes it easier for readers to defer information on where to find an interview for example and what page it is on. I categorised my contents page just like all the other Grime magazines I analysed. Splitting up the contents of your magazine makes it also easier for readers to find what they are looking for. I advertised my twitter feed and webpage on my contents as I saw this being done in every Grime magazine I came across.  The images that are put on Grime magazine contents page link and relate well to the content of the magazine just like any other magazine so I used this convention and made sure my images synced well with my content. A lot of Grime magazines don’t put the page number on the images they used but I did as if an image catches reader’s eyes instantly I want them to know what page it is on straight away.  Images used on my contents page and on other Grime magazines where similar in a sense that they contained 'bling', clothing and an aggressive looking individual.

Double Page Spread

From analysing many Grime magazines and their double page spreads they all continued a simplistic layout so I incorporated this in my own magazine. But one thing I did challenge was that the majority of them made sure the image was over half the page whereas I thought that the content was much more important than the image so I made sure that the text covered most of the page. Another thing was that the names of the artist were quite small in comparison to mine. I feel that if you are flicking quickly through a magazine and see in big words ‘BaddaBoom Tee’ you’re going to stop and read it. Just like all Grime magazines I labelled the pages with numbers and the magazines name.