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Final Front Cover For Music Magazine

Final Of Contents Page For Music Magazine

Double Page Spread Final (i)

Double Page Spread Final (ii)

Preliminary Task

Evaluation Part (i)

What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My media product is a music magazine of the Hip-Hop genre. Both of these concepts determined the actual appearance of my magazine. For example, in the Hip-Hop industry, the theme of “bling” is commonly featured, also most hip hop artists are wearing a New Era Cap - this gave me the incentive to have my artist featured on the front cover, wearing a New Era Cap, so my audience could see evident comparisons between other professional Hip-Hop magazines and my magazine. Throughout my magazine my colour-scheme consisted of four main colours; white, black, blue and red. I chose to use these particular colours as I wanted to intertwine three dark colours with a light contrasted colour of the background to create a sense of diversity to highlight the mainstream readership of the magazine. All of the fonts are typical of a Hip-Hop magazine as they are in bold and stand out on the page which attracts the reader to the specified article. All of my images are Medium close-ups (which is a common convention of Hip-Hop magazines), except for the images featured on the contents page which are a variation of medium-long-shot and medium close-ups. I decided to use a medium-long-shot for the contents page because I wanted to draw attention to my artists outfit and how it fit into the Hip-Hop convention. Many colloquialisms are utilised in my feature article which also is another principle of Hip-Hop magazines. For instance, I used words and phrases such that relate to the Hip Hop industry like “you get what I’m saying” etc.

As you can see from the comparison of the Vibe Front Cover with My Front Cover, ther are both wearing Hats, there fore I'm following convention. Also, their colour scheme is Black, White and Yellow, and Mine is Blue Red and Black.