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