Music Magazine Evaluation Q1

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

• Does your project look like a music magazine? Why?

I think my magazine looks like a music magazine because the front cover has names of big artists in the sell lines, it also has a button that says "FREE MIXTAPE INSIDE". Also the name of my music magazine is called "Music Across The Scene", which suggests and gives others an insight of what the magazine is about. Also, on the contents page it has a title illustrated as "the C-side". This gives the look of what is normally trending within the Rap & Hip-Hop industry when artists represent where they are from. In addition, in my DPS that i constructed the model and the mise-en-scene that was used within the photograph shows that the artist is from a rural area of where he was being brought up to show my target audience that he is a artist that grew up from a area that is hard to become what you want to become in that specific area. Finally,  the way that my model/artist is dressed is how a stereotypical artist will be dressed if he is representing the Hip-Hop/Rap genre.

• What conventions have you used?

My music magazine includes conventions such as a Masthead - M.A.T.S (Music Across The Scene), Sell lines, Button, Colour Scheme, Barcode, Main Image, Issue Date & Cover Line.

• Does it subvert conventions or conform to magazine conventions?

It does conform to magazine conventions because i used a VIBE magazine help to construct the conventions on my magazine to make sure that the conventions that had to be on my magazine where included on the magazine and to also insure that i was finalising my magazine to look like a music magazine.

This is the magazine that i used to construct my magazine cover to
make sure that all my conventions where correct ...

• What analysis of existing professional products did you do?

I done a case study of XXL on my blog that shows the history of XXL has accomplished in the magazine industry and the artist/models that have been in their issues that they have released. Also, the first magazines that were released at August 1997 featuring Jay-Z & Master P.

• Does your magazine clearly fit into the music genre or it unclear what genre it is?

Yes my magazine clearly fits into the music genre that i have selected my music magazine to be in because the colour themes that i have chosen which are Black, Red & White. In addition, the clothing that my models are wearing are similar to the existing Hip-Hop/Rap magazine that currently exist.

• How have you used models as music artists?

I used my models in a correct form that i had planned before taking the photos. I had made my front cover magazine models wear a casual teenage boy living in local area, with the scenery of the car in the background. Also, for DPS i had made my artist wear all black with the leather sleeves on his jacket to give the more modern rapper look with the timberlands that are currently trending, to show that he has a sense of artist look and proper dressing as if he's going to perform. Finally, in my DPS i have used two models that are wearing suits with violent weapons within the picture to show that they can be serious but also have the underground attitude.

• How have used photography, editing and miss en scene? 

I placed the camera in a perfect position to take a picture that i thought would fit the Front Cover, Double Page Spread & Contents Page the best. I had picked the best editing that will fit the colour theme of the magazine because i didn't want any of the photos to be out of content of the pictures and the layout of my magazine. My layout design i had done research to see how i would like my layout to be constructed on each page and to make sure that it fits in the genre properly by following the conventions to finalise that everything was in the correct place.