Moderator note

Below starting from September 2015 you will find my Research and Planning posts. But after this you will find my evaluation posts (questions 1-7) and my completed music magazine products. I have attempted to make my layout clear and easily accessible so that it is easy for you to read and look over.

Enjoy, Many thanks, Lewis

Final products

Evaluation- Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task, What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation- Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This is an example of me using photoshop in this example I edit the image of Bradley Cooper by removing the white background behind him so I am able to put the picture anyhwhere I like without a background. 

This is another example of me using photoshop here I edit the model image by changing his eye colours.

 This is another example of me using photoshop in this example I edit the model by giving his face a lift and imporving his features.

This is another example of me using photoshop in this example I edit the model by giving him whiter teeth as it looks a lot better.

This is an example of me using blogger and uploading something to my blog.

This is an example of me using indesign to try and make a magazine, as you can see I am not very good at this software compared to photoshop.

Evaluation- Question 5- How did you attract/ address your audience?

Evaluation- Question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product? And why?

Below I have placed a drawing of a figure I would deem to be parf of my target audience which is very stereotypical and the text around it explains why they are the specific target audience and who they are.

Evaluation: Question 3- What kind of institution might distribute your product? And why?

Evaluation: Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Below is a gif I created to show how my music magazine represents a particular social group

Similarities of images:
The similarities of the images are: The facial expressions displayed are very similar, both aiming to intimidate and show power by using a powerful stare, similar lighting used in the background to make both artists clearly stand out and visible, both are wearing flashy jewellery, hand placement and posture is also very similar (leaning a certain way with hands placed near the lower part of the body which emphasises that they don't care.


Differences of the images: Clothing is different in both images (one is wearing a loose top with chains around his neck and the other is wearing a red jacket looking like a JD model in some elements), the shot type is very different the image of Jay is more of a long shot which shows all of his body but the image of my artist displays half his posture, the posture is also slightly different as Jay leans back but my model leans forward and also lastly the hair; my model has lots of hair whereas Jay-z goes for the 'no hair no care look'.

Evaluation: Question 1- In what ways does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Question 1 from Lewis Parfitt

Research and Plannning- Complete magazine front cover

This is the finalised front cover for my music magazine and is an improvement from the previous drafts (below)

Research and Planning- Finished Double page spread

This is the final draft of my music magazines double page spread, it has come a long way from the last draft, it now looks a lot neater, cover lines are in line with each other, cleaner fonts and font sizes and the colour scheme looks much better than the previous post, I used the inspiration from the magazine featufing Wiz Khalifa to improve the double page spread and make it look a lot more professional.

Research and Planning- Progress post contents page finalised

This is my finished version of my contents page and is constructed by my audience feedback, research into rap magazines and conventions and comparing it to a real professional magazine example (below), also looking at my previous contents page post I took into account all of the criticisms and improved it a lot since the second drafted contents page.

Similarities:
- page numbers
- layout of cover lines and text
- title layout
- colour scheme
- some stories inspired from the magazine contents page

Research and Planning- Magazine audience research

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VG72R26

Research and Planning- Second Drafted contents page

This is the second draft of my contents page, It needs improving as it looks very amateur,  in comparison to the image below it the problems with it are:
- 50 pages is clearly not enough for a magazine
- The pages are more spaced out i.e. 50,54,60,64 rather than 3,4,5,6,
- The background could do with a change to white instead of the blue colour
- There is not enough text in comparison to the professional made magazine
- The layout is scruffy on the draft compared to the neat layout of the other magazine
- The images look like they have been squeezed together just for the purpose of getting two images in and would look better with only one featuring on the contents page
- Lacks detail in text and only has artists names
- Draft is out of proportion looks like no guides were used to make it neater
- Needs to consider audience feedbaxk

Research and Planning- First draft Double page spread

This is the first draft of my double page spread, I feel it doesnt fit the conventions of a rap magazine double page spread as usually they are white and look much different from this draft, there is an example of a double page spread below that I am going to follow to get a more professional looking rap magazine.

Research and planning- First draft of Contents page for music magazine

This was the first draft of my contents page, I have now improved it as I think this is too basic and could add another picture and shorten text to fit the genre of the magazine. Also the contents of the magazine are too small for a magazine and no magazine would be 12 pages long.

Research and Planning- What inspired my front cover

My finalised magazine front cover gained inspiration from these two magazine covers, as you can see the XXL logo is very similar to my magazines logo and the background colour of vibe has been integrated into my magazine front cover.