QUESTION 1: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF

REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Sheenay BabbQuestion One

I AM GOING TO COMPARE MY FRONT COVER TO EXISTING R&B MUSIC MAGAZINES TO SHOW HOW I HAVE FOLLOWED THE CODES AND

CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE. I HAVE CHOSEN TO USE THE FRONT COVER FROM A ‘VIBE’ MAGAZINE ISSUE BECAUSE THEY’RE

GENRE OF MUSIC IS R&B WHICH IS THE SAME GENRE AS MINE.

COMPARING MY FRONT COVER

I have also added extra edits to my magazine front page to ensure that it looked different from the other magazines and therefore stood out to my target audience.

As you can see, both mastheads stand out, they’re both written in a bold font and are at the top of the page. The vibe magazines has both a solid black colour and the other has a solid red. Mine has a solid aqua colour with a black shadow to help it stand out as it looks 3D.I have also used and followed the codes and conventions of an archetype music magazine, I have done this by including cover lines on the front cover to entice my target audience. The font of my cover lines are mainly in a sans serif font as it looks formal and professional.

As I have added a dateline and barcode, issue number and price on the front cover, I have followed the codes and conventions in this way. On the vibe magazines they are also included on the bottom of the magazine

COMPARING MY FRONT COVER – PART 2

On both of the magazines the image used on the front cover is a medium close up shot of the main model or protagonist. On the magazine vibe the image is of a group called TLC and on the other is Beyoncé. On all three magazine covers the image is of the model’s smiling and posing they are all looking directly into the camera getting the target audience’s attention.

In my magazine I decided to use a puff (in my models hand) the reason for this is because it follows the codes and conventions of magazines. Even though my exemplars do not use ‘puffs’ I decided to use one as I feel like it is another thing that stands out to my audience members

LEFT THIRD For my left third I have included numerous cover lines, this will let my target audience know that I have lots of stories within my magazine. When my magazine is displayed on the shelf it will stand out as there is various colours and shapes allowing it to ‘pop’ out attracting my target audience to buy my magazine.COLOUR SCHEME

My colour scheme is black, white, grey, and blue. The colour blue connotes a calm feeling and seen as it is a masculine colour and that is the main gender for my target audience it would mainly stand out to them. White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity is could make my target audience feel welcomed. Black connotes mystery, men or youth would be interested in this because it gives them something to reveal.

SELLING LINE

My selling line is “ALWAYS THE LASTEST” I did this as I wanted to make it clear that the genre of my magazine is R&B. The selling line is written in white with a black rectangle behind it as it is short it will stand out to the audience making them engage in the magazine, it will also be a good font size to make the target wonder what is the latest then wanting to read more.

I AM GOING TO COMPARE MY CONTENTS PAGE TO EXISTING R&B MUSIC MAGAZINES TO SHOW HOW I HAVE FOLLOWED THE CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE. I

HAVE CHOSEN TO USE THE FRONT COVER FROM A ‘VIBE’ MAGAZINE ISSUE BECAUSE THEY’RE GENRE OF MUSIC IS R&B WHICH IS THE SAME GENRE AS MINE.

I HAVE ALSO PUT A CONTENTS PAGE FROM SHOUT AND EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A POP MAGAZINE I HAVE USE SOME CODES AND CONVENTIONS FROM THIS MAGAZINE ALSO TO MAKE MY CONTENTS PAGE A LITTLE DIFFERENT. FOR EXAMPLE THE SUBSCRIBE SECTION.

CONTENTS PAGE I have followed the codes and conventions of a contents page but including numbers of the pages for each topic/feature within my magazine, this will help my target audience find the page or feature they are most interested in as quickly as possible.

MASTHEADMy masthead is different to the magazine that I was following as I felt that if the title was going landscape instead of going in a ladder style going down would be better as I don’t feel that it would have fit in with my page and the amount of contents I wanted to put on the page .

The main image on both magazines are long medium shots, I had taken the idea of this model directly from this ‘vibe’ magazine as I felt it was nice and made my model look ‘sexy’ as this magazine this mainly aimed at males I felt that this will help attract my main target audience more. I also have a number next to her so the audience will be able to look for it and find out more about her.

Many magazines contents page ‘nineties2now’ has different categories to what each topic and stories are placed. My magazine has regulars that come out every month in every magazine, I also have an exclusive section that only came out in this issue but in every magazine there is something that is ‘exclusive’ and it also has features.

CONTENTS PAGE – PART 2 On my contents page I decided to add an editor’s note, so my audience was able to get a friendly vibe from me so they feel more comfortable reading my magazine. However the magazine that I am comparing mine too didn’t have an editor’s note but many magazines that I have looked at does have an editor’s note by doing this I followed the codes and conventions of a magazine contents page.COLOUR SCHEME

My colour scheme is black, white, grey, and blue. I have kept to this colour scheme throughout my entire magazine to give it this ‘uniform’ effect and to ensure that it looks neat and tidy as having too many different colours may not make my magazine look too good.

My magazine and the vibe magazine both kept to the colour scheme on the contents page my writing was white with a black background this helped to make the writing stand out but the vibe magazine decided to have it the other way around.

MIXMy content page has a mixture of different pictures, colours and fonts, this helps because to separate the page making it more fun and interesting to read all the information on this page.

I AM GOING TO COMPARE MY DOUBLE PAGE TO EXISTING R&B MUSIC MAGAZINES TO SHOW HOW I HAVE FOLLOWED

THE CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE.

COMPARING MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

QUOTE This quote is supposedly taken from my celebrity. I decided to lay it over a cross to show that she is finally finished with that group as she now notices they aren’t going to help her in her future. The quote is “I left Calibrii because they were not focused the way they needed to be!”

I have kept to the codes and conventions as I have used a drop capital at the beginning of my paragraph for my interview. I did not use two separate colours for my interviewee’s answers and the question but I have another colour behind the text to help the answers stand out more.

Both my magazine and my exemplar magazine have more than two columns, the sections are broken down so it is easier for my target audience to read it.

COMPARING MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREADPART 2

I made sure that that I kept all of the text included on the page in columns so the page looks neat and tidy and most importantly formal by doing this I kept to the codes and conventions of a double page spread. I’ve decided to make my first column longer and the fourth column to be the shortest because I like the way it goes up in a ladder style fashion.

COLOUR SCHEME

The colour scheme for my double page spread stays the same as my contents and front cover as because it has this ‘uniform’ style it helps the magazine to look neater it also give it a contemporary stylish look.