Evaluation
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In what why s does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products
My media project consisted of me creating a front cover, a contents page and a double page spread of a music magazine. This has been achieved by looking at the current codes and conventions that are used in similar magazines that are in production today and either using, challenging or developing those codes and conventions.
My front cover develops/challenges the convention of having a single central main image by still having one main image, but isn’t quite central as the emphasis is not entirely set on the person. The emphasis is also on the guitar that my model, Jamie, is holding up, this is to show that he has power. This image also challenges the codes and conventions in the fact that it is partially in black and white and partially in colour. This is there to attract the eyes of potential buyers and outline the fact that his power is music related.
My magazine complies with the codes and conventions in the placements of my masthead, price and barcode. These placements are common in nearly all magazines, whether they’re music related or not, and because of this I complied as if I didn’t the reader would be confused or think an article headline could be the title of the magazine. Therefore to make the magazine more reader friendly and appealing I used these conventions.
2)
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I have chosen to represent the B to C2 grade social groups. I have shown those social groups in multiple ways such as the use of language or the people pictured. For example the image on the front cover is dressed in a way that they could be of any of my chosen social classes as the clothes aren’t formal, but they’re also not too informal that the model looks like he’s just climbed of bed. This means that the classes selected would either see him as someone to aspire to be like or an equal. This is also shown in my contents page as the top 2 images so people looking rather good, yet informal, while the bottom image shows a person not looking at their full, this is someone to be empathised with.
As for the text I haven’t really used any slang words but I have used abbreviations such as ‘didn’t’, this almost formal, informal writing applies to the middle classes of the NRS social grades (B, C1 and C2). I could have used some slag language but I feel this would alienate the B group out and some of the C1 as I myself don’t really like the use of slag words in writing and I’d put myself about C1/B.
3)
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product And why?
1)
In what why s does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products
My media project consisted of me creating a front cover, a contents page and a double page spread of a music magazine. This has been achieved by looking at the current codes and conventions that are used in similar magazines that are in production today and either using, challenging or developing those codes and conventions.
My front cover develops/challenges the convention of having a single central main image by still having one main image, but isn’t quite central as the emphasis is not entirely set on the person. The emphasis is also on the guitar that my model, Jamie, is holding up, this is to show that he has power. This image also challenges the codes and conventions in the fact that it is partially in black and white and partially in colour. This is there to attract the eyes of potential buyers and outline the fact that his power is music related.
My magazine complies with the codes and conventions in the placements of my masthead, price and barcode. These placements are common in nearly all magazines, whether they’re music related or not, and because of this I complied as if I didn’t the reader would be confused or think an article headline could be the title of the magazine. Therefore to make the magazine more reader friendly and appealing I used these conventions.
2)
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I have chosen to represent the B to C2 grade social groups. I have shown those social groups in multiple ways such as the use of language or the people pictured. For example the image on the front cover is dressed in a way that they could be of any of my chosen social classes as the clothes aren’t formal, but they’re also not too informal that the model looks like he’s just climbed of bed. This means that the classes selected would either see him as someone to aspire to be like or an equal. This is also shown in my contents page as the top 2 images so people looking rather good, yet informal, while the bottom image shows a person not looking at their full, this is someone to be empathised with.
As for the text I haven’t really used any slang words but I have used abbreviations such as ‘didn’t’, this almost formal, informal writing applies to the middle classes of the NRS social grades (B, C1 and C2). I could have used some slag language but I feel this would alienate the B group out and some of the C1 as I myself don’t really like the use of slag words in writing and I’d put myself about C1/B.
3)
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product And why?
still needs to be done
4)
Who would be the audience for your media project?
My magazine is aimed at people (both genders, but leaning more towards males) aged about 16-24 who enjoy rock music.
I have appealed to these ages by using my front image’s clothing as it is fashionable and would make him relatable or admirable by my chosen age range. This is seen throughout my magazine, with the exception of the bottom picture of my contents page as that is related to a story of drug abuse and therefore would be unsuitable to have a lovely charming picture as this would send out the wrong message about drugs.
I said that my target market is more male than female because the front of the page has a ‘He-Man’ reference on it, even though I don’t doubt that there are many female fans of He-Man’, He-man is aimed more at males given the concept of the cartoon. This also applies to my age range as it is people between the ages of 16-24 that would have watched it when it was aired on television.
My fonts are predominantly masculine in the titles to attract my male readers. I used Blackleaf and All Over Again, and in the words ‘Children of War’ I have used 28 Days Later, this was to make it like a trademark of the band using it regardless of font already being used in that title, I didn’t use it in the article text because the reader would already know the subject of the double page. I used another masculine font for this as it’s an all male band and masculinity and strength is something which is very prominent in rock music.
To try and counter balance but not scare away the masculinity the font creates I used a colour scheme that consisted of blue, black and white. The blue is the ace up my sleeve top grab the female attention as blue is a very calming colour, but still associated with males, where the opposite is pink. The soothing effect that it creates should help the female readers not to be over powered by the larger amount of machismo that I have put in.
5)
How did you attract your audience?
The main way I attracted my audience is with the front cover as it is the first thing that my potential buyer is going to see. So due to this I have to have an attractive cover.
One of the key things on my cover to attract someone is my power word, ‘Power’. the word power is strong word and will instantly draw the audiences eye as if the word itself demands that level respect, and because of this I have challenged one of the codes and conventions I mentioned earlier by placing it instead of an image in the centre of the page. This leaves room for the eye to wonder about the page in any direction.
The image is the next most noticeable, eye grabbing thing on the page, partially because its layered under the word power and therefore connected to that word but also because the lightning is the only blue on the front cover and blue is quite a large percentage of the cover. In stark contrast to the mass of blue, Jamie is at the bottom of the page in the foreground, coloured in black and white to make the guitar he’s hold stand out more, as that is in colour. The reasoning for the guitar to be in colour is because the coloured guitar, along with the glow it has, shows his dominance or power over music and how powerful that itself is.
My masthead also attracts the reader as not only to the colours attract people but also because both ‘Rock’ and ‘Load’ are in white and have shadows they stand out from the page as if to say ‘look at me’.
