MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 7

From my prelim magazine cover I have learnt that the bright colours look good and attract attention but it may be mistaken for a flyer or poster so I have had to make it a bit more formal, I have done this by shortening my masthead to just $, i personally prefered it as STUNT but obvioustly it wasn't a good enough heading.

MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 5

I attract my audience by using a classic Hip-Hop look of a snapback turned backwards and a college jacket with hoodie underneath. I do this because my artist is still at college at the age of 17 he is still young and won't be rich, just be well off. I wanted my model to look fashionable but still ‘ghetto’. I also mentioned big names on the front cover of my magazine to kind of relate him to these artists style and it would also be bate for the fish (audience) to be enticed toward and want to read it. I use people such as wiz khalifa who are now the most downloaded Hip-Hop artist EVER on http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/ as he is a major recent superstar, he has been around for a while now but his music has got really clean over late and now he is getting big time thanks to his album 'Rolling Papers'. I also use Mac Miller as him and Wiz are closely related and also at a similar standard of Kid Tromf but he is a lot further ahead, he is now one of the top 5 rappers in America.

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MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 6

Media on Prezi

MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Audience

MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 3

The kind of people that may distribute my magazine are people that may distribute magazines such as K-mag or Rago magazine. These are both UK based magazines that focus on the genre of hip hop, they also focus on other genres of music but these are as close the type of magazine I want to find. Hip hop is a mainly American based genre of music as it is not massive in the UK. The majority of Hip Hop fans in the UK are into grime music and other sorts of faster based maybe drum and base kind of rapping, this isn’t real original hip-hop it has been changed and adapted.

The publisher of Kmag is Phoenix Publishing, formerly Vision Publishing so I feel that these could be the people that would publish my magazine although they pride themselves on being the largest selling drum and base magazine in the uk I find this as a good way to advertise my magazine as if in some way they could be partnered that would help sell both magazines massively.

MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 2

2)      I would say that my magazine is definitely aimed towards a certain social group; the main thing aiming it towards a certain social group is the genre of music. You love it or you hate it. Hip-Hop is a controversial genre of music as most Hip-Hop artists use vulgarisms in there rhymes or taboo terms more than any other genre of music I would say, up there with heavy rock and maybe the occasional bad song. But I feel that these terms are only used to get a physical image into your head and to show strength and passion within the rhymes.

The fans of my magazine should be hip-hop fans that appreciate the music for what it is and the movement it has taken over the world over late, it is now in the charts on the TV and all over the media. Hip Hop is taking over the world at this point in time. I am trying to broaden the quite in closed social group that my magazine is aimed at by also including the sub genres of extreme sport and fashion within the grimy hip hop genre.

The artist presented in my magazine is a white rapper which is un-common to see in the hip hop scene all though over late quite a lot of white rappers have been coming up e.g. Mac Miller, Eminem, MGK (Machine Gun Kelly), Bennie Banks and others, these rappers all have similar styles for instance they all like the typical hip hop snap back, college jacket or baggy t-shirt and tattoo’s although they all do have defining features. This will make the magazine feel more open to white people as hip hop is mainly presented as a black man’s culture; it may also open it to the girls or groupies and make it more open more than just the heavy hip hop fans.

The people that will read my magazine are mainly classed as the ‘Urban Tribe’ according to the website www.UKTribes.com this means that the majority of my social group watch the TV, Listen to the radio or they read magazines. The main brands that they wear are Nike or addidas and obey or stussy.

MEDIA EVALUATION QUESTION 1

1)      My media product challenges/matches the generic conventions of a typical magazine. I do not have any sub headings or strap lines on my cover more do I have any previews of articles featured. I have shown the names of two other artists featured in the magazine other than the main article, which as ‘KidTriomf’… Kid Triomf is my artist that I have made up ad displayed on my front cover as the main feature.  I had to improvise a cover image for my front cover as the images I had taken for the article were not suited to the genre or artist, nore were they clear enough. I was lucky enough to find several images of my friend who was a perfect candidate for the artist that could be improvised and edited in. The images aren’t the clearest and the actual pose itself challenges the general conventions of a magazine as he is posing with his middle finger in the air. I took the pictures myself in my bedroom with him a while ago last winter.

My contents page follows general conventions of a normal contents page by having 3 columns including; New Features, Artist index and main features, but mainly by the fact of having the main features and artist index keeps it within the generic conventions along with the layout of:

I feel that I can improve my contents page by having a more formal layout and maybe I could segregate parts of my magazine and put them in sorted segments e.g. Live performances could have gigs, show reviews and Live show photography. I could then group things such as Fashion together and maybe have more stylistic photos included. I might have a section for upcoming artists etc. I could show all of this on my contents page as at the min I think it isn’t all it could be.

I feel that my double page spread follows the conventions of an ordinary magazine quite appropriately and suits the type of magazine I am making, I feel I could have taken more time on the cropping and editing as once printed out I noticed a few mistakes that could have been avoided by paying a little more attention to the magazine.

My magazine compared to this is similar in particular ways, e.g. it is quite plane and has a lot of blank space, and that is similar to the type of magazine I wanted to create.

I feel my magazine has a similar vibe to this magazine also.