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Music Magazine Evaluation Maheshi Mendes

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Music Magazine Evaluation

Maheshi Mendes

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

products?

Flash in colour scheme with the rest of the magazine with text inside.

Cover line relating to the artist on the cover.

Background is white and the colour scheme is very simple making the content stand out more.

I have chosen this front cover from VIBE magazine to compare my front cover to as they both have similar aspects. The colour palette is kept to a minimum so the features of the magazine are brought forward and the mastheads of both magazine are slightly behind the artists head. By doing this it hides the name of the magazine but gives the impression people will already know the name because it’s so popular. The rule of thirds is also used in both magazines as the four points would draw attention to the artist and the captions next to them.

Masthead

Main image (rule of thirds)

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

There is a photo of two artists posing placed to the right hand side similar to mine.

The index for the contents are positioned to the left hand side vertically.

Title

Caption about the image

I have chosen a contents page from VIBE magazine to compare my contents page to as they have similar attributes. In both pages the images on the page contrast with the backgrounds so the artists are noticed more. The actual contents are also placed in the same way (on the left hand side) as this gives it a neater perspective and makes it easier for the read to know which page to go to for what information. The magic C is used in my magazine because the text forms a C shape and this is a format used by magazines\

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms

and conventions of real media products?

Titles and the top

Both articles have one page covered with an image.

Drop cap used in the beginning of

both articles.

An image is placed in the

middle and text is wrapped around

it.

Grab quote

standfirst

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine is aimed at social groups such as mainstream, hip hop, drum and bass dance audiences. The age can range from 16-24 as it’s for dance and club beat fanatics however the magazine is more of a formal music magazine such as ‘Billboard’ as it’s in more of a formal layout.

It’s aimed at this age range and social group because it keeps them involved in the most recent dancers and dance music and also what’s going in the life of the artists they listen to.