Thursday, 9 October 2008

Evaluation Of (M.i,U) DEREK

My magazine uses forms and conventions of real music magazines thorough the way i have layed it out, it is also similar to most magazines out there, due to the basic layout being used by other magazines, it has been developed by myself in a particular way and format to have similarities with other music magazines on the market. It also has some differences such as many strap-lines and overheads,also similar conventions such as the big main picture on the front of the magazine of the main artist, which normally it will have a two page spread in the magazine, this is what mainly probably this draws the attention of the consumer, when they are looking through a lot of magazines on a rack, it also helps to identify the genre they are after because it is what will drag the attention of their eyes.

my magazine represents certain social groups, which will be young teenagers that there age will probably go up from 17 too about 21, they will also live in a certain area that is urban like, towards the central of the city where there is a lot of different types of people. And are also surounded by a lot of diiferent types of magazines,my magazine wouldn't apply to someone that probably lives in a rural area such as a farm or very quiet area like that listens to quiet or soulful music, this is because they would probably not be the listeners of the Hip Hop genre. it mainly applies to hip hop listeners because of the location of the picture and also the actual person in the picture mainly because of the way he is dressed such as a baseball cap,a huge watch and a big chain these are all basic accessories of the hip hop genre. Therefore the items being given away in my magazine are considered and shows the genre because i am giving away tickets for the mobo's which is a uk HIP HOP award winning programme.

The kind of media institution that will distribute my magazine will be companies such as MTV because of there big contribution to hiphop and the people that follow MTV is the kind of people that would be interested our magazine (M,I,U). The input in our mag is what they would expect from that genre of hip hop. Channel U will also help promote my mag because they support uk music especially hip hop, and my magazine has a influence and news on what is going on in the UK hip hop and the readers will likely to be followers of uk hip hop.

The audience for my magazine cover would be young people from a young age from about 17 up to around early 20's that are interested in Hip Hop, and also show an interest in fashion and the biographys and knowing what artists have been through or are going through to get how their status is now. Also the main Sex of people i think it will draw would be the males as they are into more gangster rap than females but also the females get there far share of the mag because of Hip hop Artists like missy elliot that keep the female part of hip hop strong.

How i attracted my audience was mainly through my picture which had a young man dressed up influenced by hip hop such as baseball caps and jeans and a chain which is quite normal in an hip hop artist, I also addressed my audience of being young by having quite a young person on my front cover which will therefore attract people of that age or slightly older or younger this helps my magazine sell to a certain generation or bandwith or people.

What i have learnt from the technologies is that i could easily make fake images via photoshop, or easily manipulate and image to seem what it isnt or even better than it actually is, you can also add objects and items that was not there when the image was taken. I have learned that not all images on magazines and newspapers are as it seems it could have easily been altered just the same way that i altered my images to make my magazine front cover.

If i was to make another cover i would picked anothere genre just to make it that much harder to put together and take pictures of differently dressed people also so that the background images are also hard to put together. This is mainly because the genre i picked (hip hop) i am very familiar with it and it was nothing new me having a picture of my main image and putting it on a familiar background because i am familiar with all these types of images and the things i was giving away such as t shirts, the straplines and the overheads came easy because i have come across other magazines in the same genre so this gave me a good idea of what to include my magazine.

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