Presentation 7 questions

By Amna Afzal

In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?

1. The title of my magazine.• I took a font from the internet to produce a graffiti look text, this is mainly because the

genre of my music is street based and graffiti is what we mainly see in the music videos, i also inserted it in a black text box to make it stand out and attractive.

• i used the colours black, red and white because they look very urban.

2. Mis - en – scene of images. • The images i used are informal the models that are posing for the camera have been

asked to pose in a certain way, for example i told the people to look intimidating and they did so this is because the genre of my magazine is that most of the characters are shown as intimidating, this is to show the status and power they have in the music industry, so i told my models to do the same. The way in which they are dressed are in formal and looks like what you would see people in R&B music videos dressed as.

• The people in my magazine are quite young and unconventional, and may not seem as intimidating or as tough as they should just like the famous people in the music industry based in my genre, but its close enough and the best i could do and find.

3. Written content• The written content in my music magazines follows the real codes and convention of a real

magazine for example: the rhetorical questions i had asked on my front cover is what you would usually find on a real music magazine, and also the bar code and price i had put on my front cover makes out as if its a real music magazine.

• The language is quite chatty and informal, in the contents page their is a option too have a look at one of the peoples interview and answers this makes it sound and look more real.

4. The title and font.• The title looks more engaging and will appeal to the target audience because it relates and looks

like what you would see in a R&B music magazine because of the graffiti type font. The font i used throughout my magazine is consistent and is a standard font i done this too keep it simple and less muddled for the reader also this is something else you would find in a real music magazine.

5. Music genre and how my magazine presents it?• I think my music magazine is presented quite clearly that it is a R&B , Hip Hop music magazine

through the front cover picture and the font style i had chosen to use as my masthead as it looks un formal, also I stated on my front cover it is a R&B music magazine, also the lay out of my magazine is mainly conventional as you can see on the double page spread on the side of the pictures it states the interviews of the people being shown, also in the way i had presented my pictures along side with the quotes and also my masthead is presented at a specific place and angle its very visible. The barcode is also presented conventionally its either usually on the bottom of the page in the corners or at the top.

6. Contents page.• My contents page is conventional because for my target audience the layout and format is

simple and visible and has a picture of somebody that is the main person in the music magazine.

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

• I think that Quincy Jones would love to distribute my product because , he launched vibe in 1993 the music magazine has become very popular and is well known by every one my product is within the same genre as vibe. The target audience may be a little younger as my target audience is for the youth of today but I think this is what the company would need so they become more well known and spread. This would be a great opportunity as the public would be tempted to try out a new product, if the target audience is attracted by the product this will give the company more money, and expand in the business. It is still aimed within the same age range but is more suitable for the younger youth to read aswell.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

• The audience for my product would be aimed at the age range of 15-19for the young youth of today as I intended not to use provocative images or foul language in my magazines like the normal R&B/Hip Hop magazine use. This is because I think this will help the company expand in its business and make more money. Also younger people are interested in this genre these days so this is why i chose to make the product age range with 15-19.

How did you attract/address your audience.

• As I was producing my magazine I was asking the target audience what thy was thinking of the structure, layout and house colours and if they was all working well together.

• Most of the R&B / Hip Hop magazines mainly have male character's that look intimidating as the front cover, this is what I had done and this will give me a better chance of attracting my target audience. Also the format layout and style looks very urban and colours I had chosen to use (black, white and red)especially the logo the format I had used look like street and graffiti type format.