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7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to full product?

Yes I do feel that my work has improve from my preliminary task that I should take my time with Photoshop and use trial and error to get the best out of my work. I should also learn how to take in feedback and learn to apply it to my work and do more market research. I feel that i used my entire tool wisely and it hep and shows in my work. I feel over the course of my making this music magazine it shows now I improved with my Photoshop skills and my blogging skills shown in my first tasks. As I did start to experiment with my Photoshop skills I started to get more confident with my skills and started to take more risks with my work and added different effect which I didn’t know how to use before.

I also feel that i did develop my skills of taking information and applying it to my work for the whole task. I feel that they way that I have applied information from different hip hop magazines and other types of magazines was every good that is why my magazine is a high bread magazine.

I also made sure that my magazine stayed with a house style so that I can still keep with the hip hop style. I feel that I also improved my design skills and how to put image together for example my double page spread, this shows how i put images together and how I i can cut out images and blended to images together.

I feel i also develop my photo taking skills because I learn how to take pictures for different angles and how to change the viewing of the images and how to make them clear and more blurry with just the camera. These help my magazine images and gave me more of a wider choice of images to pick from.        

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6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When I started this course I wasn’t the best at photo shop so I had to develop on my skills to get a better result for my magazine, and example of my bad photo shop skills was my preliminary task I didn’t know how to add many affect to my image so my image was very basic and plan. I also made my image black and white which wasn’t good because I lost marks for colour. However I did learn how to use photo shop in my free time so that my main task could be better. I learnt how to add different affect and how they work on my image and how it could improve my image. I feel my photo shop skills have improved and are shows in my new main task work and my drafts of it before.

feel that the camera I used which was the FufiFilm FinePix S1500 helped me capture all the images in the way I wanted to get them, and example of this is when I wasn’t to have a focus shot of Skylark hand and make the face look blurred which i managed to do with the camera I used. Also the camera had a quality lends which made my pictures more clear and easy to edit.

To edit my images I used Photo Shop CS3 and CS5 to add effects and different fonts to my work. This helps my work because it helped me edit and change my work actually and how I wanted it to look, and example of this could of been my font cover which I made on Photoshop, it show now I added font to the page, a image in the corner and also blur the image to add an effect. I feel that both facts will helped my work develop and come out how I wanted it to.

 

5. How did you attract/address you audience?

I feel that my magazine four pages will be able to attract readers because of the design and the layout of my magazine. Because I based my magazine on to worldwide hip hop magazines I will that my magazine will appeal to hip hop magazine. I feel that my magazine will appeal to my main audience but also feel that it could appeal to people out side of my target audience because of the house style I used for my magazine. I feel that my front cover it a good example of this because of the tag line which is “love of music” this shows that not only hip hop reader can read the magazine it does appeal to everyone. Also my contents page is every different and I got it idea from a fashion edition of Vibes magazine so that it can appeal to fashion reader can also relate to them.  The use of one cover on the contents page is very different from normal hip hop magazine so it will appeal to more people.

Also the font size of the contents pages it clear and is a dark black so it is easier for the reader to understand it. My double page spread uses the same colours as the whole magazine which shows the house style that I’m trying to comply with the house style.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

A typical reader of my magazine is a person age 11+ who like mainstream and underground hip hop music. The reader music must like the mainstream music which is artist that appeal to the masses and will sell out tours and also the young new upcoming act that just need a help to make it into the mainstream. Their music may not appeal to the masses but will appeal to hard core hip hop fans. The reader must also be willing to buy albums and listen to different artist and different genres.

The artist that my magazine are Jay-Z, Giggs, Skylark and also artist from different genres like Katy B, Ed Sheeran and N-Dubz. My magazine will also have much different advertisement in the magazine from different company such as JD, Super dry, Apple and Hugo Boss. This could also help my magazine appeal to more people because of the advertisement inside of it.      

   

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I feel that Matt Mason will be the perfect person to distribute my magazine because of his understanding about music. He also has a magazine called “RWD Magazine” which is a UK underground magazine which normally has articles about unknown unban artist who are trying to break into the mainstream. The magazine also keeps a good relationship with the artist they use in the magazine which will mean that they want to come back for more interviews. I feel that we share similar ideas on music because we both respect new artist trying to come up but also respect artist that made it that haven’t forgotten were they came from. He also knows that the UK rap scene doesn’t have a good magazine so he will help me distribute my magazine.

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

The main social groups I wanted my magazine to meet were hip hop fans which I felt that I met. I feel that my magazine will appeal to all genders because I will make sure there is articles around female artist as well as male, this is also because hip hop is a very universal genre. I also feel that the magazine will appeal to all ages because there wouldn’t be any strong language or indecent pictures in the magazine so that younger reader can read it. Also I will also make sure that I have old and new artist in the magazine so that all readers can read the magazine.  An example could me my magazine I have a well-known artist on the front but on the side I have articles about new and upcoming artist.