The document discusses the media student's music magazine project and how it used and developed conventions from real music magazines. Some key points: - The front cover featured the main artist in front of the magazine title, similar to Vibe magazine. However, it did not include an artist quote like Billboard magazine. - The contents page listed article titles and page numbers, like Vibe. Double page spreads included artist interviews, as real magazines do. - The student developed original elements like varied fonts/colors not common in music magazines, but this risks looking unprofessional. - The magazine challenges conventions by using two colors in the same text, unlike other magazines that use one color per text block.

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The media product that I have created used many
conventions of a real music magazine for example in a
‘VIBE’ music magazine cover the main artist Alicia Keys is
edited to be in front of the masterhead which is ‘VIBE’, I
used this similar concept in my music magazine where I
have the main artist ‘Raychelle’ in front of the
masterhead ‘FUSIAH’ this is because it shows the
importance of the artist.

4. However a convention I didn’t use on the front cover
magazine that was used in real music magazines was a
quote from the artist on the front cover this would have
got the audience’s attention more because of the artists
star quality, this was done on the ‘Billboard’ magazine
where they included a quote from the artist on the front
cover, Rihanna. Additionally doing this would have given
the audience more insight into what the music magazine
was about.

5. Moreover in my magazine contents page I used comparable features
to the ‘VIBE’ magazine contents page this is mainly because ‘VIBE’
magazine has a similar genre to my one and also has the same target
audience as me. I included a list of what would be featuring in the
magazine followed by the page numbers that the content would be
shown on. This would make the audience look forward to the shown
content titles listed and create more of pre-buzz before they read the
magazine.

6. To add to this in my double page spread I also included
conventions from real media products for instance in my
music magazine the double spread included quotes from
an interview with the artist this attracts the audience
more as they are interested to hear what their favourite
artists are saying. This same convention was used in the
double spread about Alexandra burke who is an R & B
artist which my artist is as well.

7. I developed the idea of having different fonts and colours to having different rotations for
the text this was not common in many music magazines so this therefore for made by
music magazine original and have its own sort of brand. However the consequence of this
may be that because this does not suit the normal convention of most music magazine it
may give the audience the opinion that the magazine is unprofessional looking.

8. Finally my music magazine challenges the
conventions of a real music magazines because
in my text is used two different colours in the
same text when in other music magazine they
usually use two different colours per piece of
text. This makes my music magazine look more
original and not just a carbon copy of other
music magazines.

9. How does your media product represent particular
social group?
The music magazine I created is an R & B magazine this genre is targeted at
people from the age of 14-25 of both genders. This demographic tends to be
very sociable and be involved in social media and have large friendship that
they go out with to parties and concerts etc. On the front cover it mentions
that there will be content about upcoming concerts and on the double spread
it mention the dates for the concerts and their location this represents the
social group as concerts are social events that this social group is represented
by. These people are usually students or have just recently started work and
they also tend to be image conscious therefore by including glow tips from
Rihanna this represents this social group. My music magazine represents in
many ways for example the artists that are mentioned on the front cover are
artist who have the same target audience as my magazine.

10. These well known artist help to appeal and represent my target audience.
To add to this on my double spread page I included content that
represents my target audience for intense there is a column on the page
that talks about ‘Glow the Rihanna Way’. Content like this represents my
target audience well because females particularly at the age of 14-30 are
interested in looking good and looking like their favourite celebrities.

11. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
P Diddy is a well-known Hip-Hop artist.

13. Who would be the audience for your audience for your
media product?
The audience for my music magazine would be
14-25 year olds in the UK, both females and
males, this is because R&B is the main music
that this demographics listens to. Most of
these people are students or have just started
working so majority of the target audience are
in secondary school, sixth form/college and
university. This genre is appealing to the
audience for example male R & B artists are
sometimes topless on magazine covers and
this show their muscles and tattoo’s and this is
attractive to girls of the age 14-25.

15. How did you attract/address your audience?
When creating my music magazine I had to create in a way that it
would attract and address my audience. For instance on my front
cover I included other R&B music artist names on the front cover to
attract the audience more as R&B is a common genre for my
demographic. On my double spread I included a chance to win free
tickets this is because my target audience is a majority of students
who may not have a large income to spend on tickets therefore the
opportunity to win free tickets addresses the audience.

17. Additionally when thinking
about the images I was using
I wanted the audience to
have sort of personal identity
with the artists. On the
contents page the artist has
a cleavage piercing this is
because body piercings have
become very popular
amongst the young people
demographic.

18. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
For the creation of my music magazine I had to use Photoshop to edit the pictures
and put the magazine together. It was difficult in some ways as I only had a really
basic knowledge of how to use Photoshop. For example I took me a while to edit a
scar of one of the artists face but after many tries I got the hang of it.

19. I also had to use Photoshop to edit out the green screen at the
back of the images however because the models had curly/wavy
hair this was a bit more tricky. One thing I would do if I had to do
this again is to use models with straight hair so that it would
make the process more easier. To get rid of the green screen I
used the magic wand and I also used the smudge tool to blend
the parts if the hair that were to curly for the wand to pick up
the green screen behind it.

20. Looking back at your preliminary task , what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
your full product?
In my preliminary task I used Microsoft to
create my school magazine and from this I
progressed to using Photoshop for my music
magazine. The preliminary task helped me to
know what were the right pictures to pick and
how colour schemes work to set at theme ant
attract the target audience.

22. For my school magazine I used a IPhone 5s camera, we can see from
the previous slide that this phone has 8 megapixels however the Canon
camera that I used for music magazine has 18 mega pixels. This would result
in the pictures on the music magazine having a better quality than the pictures
on the school magazine
Additionally using word for my school magazine meant that the editing I could do was quite
limited because Microsoft Words editing features just including cropping, contrasting etc.
However on Photoshop you hade features that allow you too hide blemishes and red eyes etc.
These features helped to give my magazine a more professional look.