Name: This Is Sick!! I have chosen this as the title because its an alternative of Michael Jackson‘s movie This Is It!! I think this title is good for my magazine, because most of the R&B superstars have in a way been influenced by Michael Jackson.
Genre: Purely R&B no other R&B magazines specialise in purely in RnB, soul, neo soul they always have other genres included in the magazine such as hip hop for vibe. Right On!!, has started to include teen pop in their magazine.
Place in current market: To make my magazine more prestigious I will make it monthly, because magazines that are published weekly are generally cheaper than monthly magazines. Also a monthly magazine will not have as a much stress as a weekly magazine
Logo:
This is a silhouette of someone dancing in the style of Michael Jackson, I think this logo is good, as music and dancing are a good link.
Target audience: RnB fans from early teens to about late thirties.
Ideas for cover story: return to the scene
Idea for contents page: shows the page numbers with pictures on the sides to show what the article will be about. Main stories will be emphasised, and some brief detail will be included and a note from the editor.
Idea for double page spread: Interview with Chris Brown an RnB superstar and find out how his lifer has dramatically changed this year.
Below is my original flat plan
My presentation is underneath
http://www.slideshare.net/dyamfool/media-magazine-genre-3915513
Evaluation
In what ways does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of real media products?
I believe my media product uses the conventions of real media products, my front cover looks realistic because it has a barcode, price and date on it. These are a few simple things that are on real life magazines have. It also uses the conventions because I have one big main image on my media product, this is because the image is the main attraction, and this is used in a lot of real media products.
How does your media product represent a particular social group?
My product is a R&B magazine, stereotypically the particular social group my media product represents is at urban teenagers/young adults I think that they understand the language used etc. My front cover shows this, because it has a picture of a black male on the front, usually people would assume straight away that my cover is either R&B or Hip Hop.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
I think that I would use the company Time inc to distribute my magazine, because it has previously distributed magazines such as Vibe, which was the same genre as my magazine R&B. Time Inc is one of the largest content company in the world. It is the largest magazine publisher in the U.S, and a leading publisher in the U.K. and Mexico, this shows that it's very popular and successful, i would like my magazine to be associated with this company. I would also put my magazine into shops such as HMV and Zavi as they a very big music companies, they would raise awareness to my magazine, as it provides a selection of different type of music.
I believe the audience would be people who enjoy RnB music, I have included names of new and old RnB superstars so that it’s not specifically aimed at just the young generation, Although I personally prefer very old RnB I have only included artists older artists from back in the 1990s and mid 1980s, this means that teenagers and people in their early 20s will be interested in my product, people in their 60s may not be interested in my product, because these artists might not appeal to them. The audience could also be teenagers because on the front cover I have put an image of a CD and written around it free cd, as teenagers do not always have as much access to money as adults they, would be more than happy to know that they would get a free CD if they purchased the magazine, it would be a bonus to them, also adults wouldn’t mind getting free items, people do not always like spending their own money. My audience may be more females compared to males, because my central image is a picture of “Asher B” who is quite attractive so he may be seen as eye candy for females, they may have a crush on him, because girls generally do have celebrity crushes he is what they may look for in a guy, young, talented, successful and good looking.
How did you attract/address your audience?
My product attracts my audience, because it has a nice colour scheme of black white and red. This means that it attracts both males and females because there are not any colours that are associated with a specific gender i.e. pink for girls. I also put an image of a CD with the writing free CD around it, this makes the audience feel they are getting something extra.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt some much about technologies, it was a lot harder than I expected to
construct this product. Adobe In design is not easy software. I learnt that you have to work on a lot of different layers, even for things that seemed very little i.e. a text box. I also realised that it was very important to lock layers, this kept parts of my product safe as I was experimenting with other parts. One very important thing I learnt about In design is that I needed a lot of patience; I got frustrated not understanding it start away, but that meant that i had to continue experimenting to get results in the end. I used In design for my product, I also used Adobe Photoshop this was to edit my images. I learnt quite a lot from this programme as well, it was quite easy to work with once i understood it; it is more straight forward then In design. Just like In design working on layers is very important; in case you mess up on layer making a copy is good, because it gives you a back up. I learnt about all the different tools and how to make images look better i.e. healing spots, giving flawless skin and even changing the eye colour. I also learnt about cutting out images using the different tools, i did not understand how hard it was to place someone’s forehead in front of the title, until i had to do it. I had to work on different layers and cut my images head out on one layer and then on another layer i had to cut around his head again going all the way down his neck, but his forehead was chopped off, i then had to merge the layers together and put it on In design. I also learnt that saving photos in different settings are important, if you put a transparency affect on an image and do not want to discard any colour information you should save it as a PNG.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
As you can see from the images below there is a dramatic improvement from my preliminary task, which is on the left to my full project, which is on the right. My preliminary task was to produce a school magazine, it does not look as good due to a various of factors. One is that my school magazine was produced on Microsoft publisher whereas my full product was produced Adobe In design, which is used for producing magazines. My central images for both covers are very different, in my preliminary task you can tell my model seems quite uneasy and he is not posed in a specific way, where as on my music magazine my model is rubbing his hands together, you can tell this picture has been posed so it can go with the genre for my magazine. Also you can tell that my first one was not cut as good as the second one, this is because I lacked knowledge of the tools that I could use on Photoshop, I used a pen tool as well as others on my full product my models head is on top of the title, this required me to make a lot of different layers and cut his body, head and forehead out separately, this is used in quite a lot of R&B magazines that I researched. Another reason you can tell my music magazine has progressed from my school magazine is because on my school magazine a bit of my text goes across and even goes of a bit of my central image, this does not look very professional. I also think I have progressed from my preliminary because I think my colour scheme for my main product is better, I think red black and white go together well. My school magazine has odd choices in colours. The banner has also been improved, because I used a transparent affect.
Software techniques used to create a page are relatively simple, but learning the software interface took some time. Learning software like Photoshop could take years. The hardest part for me was coming up with a well balanced and pleasing design that neither looks empty or cluttered.
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