FINISHED!

I have finished working on my magazine and I really enjoyed the task

Evaluation

At first I was interviewed on some of the question of the evaluation so I've uploaded it to the blog.
In which ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

 I think that the following institutions are most likely to distribute my product: Mag+ and Music mags are online distributors. Digital publishing is now becoming more popular with 17% of magazines now available online; therefore this would enable my product to be distributed on a larger scale if this method was used. Another possible institution to distribute the Whiz is the Bauer Media Group. I think this company would want to publish my magazine as they are starting publishing more music magazines and I don’t think they have found a hip hop genre magazine yet therefore the whiz would be the best option as it is knew and covers up their search criteria’s: age group 15-19, hip hop genre, must cover up fashion and interesting interviews with coming up young stars.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

 The target audience for my media product is teenagers and young adults both male and female aged from 15-19. I have chosen this age group as my target audience as they are more likely to buy music magazines and be interested in hip-hop music. I have targeted the magazine to both genders as I wanted to target a wider audience. Readers or their parents (depends on who's going to be buying the magazine) will fall into C1/C2 socioeconomic group as my magazine will cost £3.50. The reader of the magazine is going to expect to see a hip hop superstar on the front cover and a lot of show off. My reader will have a strong sense of fashion and always desire the latest music, clothes and gadgets. The reader must be interested in all kind of music awards and other achievements as well as hip hop stars' lifes which is going to be one of the main parts of my magazine. To choose my target audience, I did research to find out if there was a gap in the market of music magazines. I found that there weren’t many magazines aimed particularly at the social group of “hip hop” so I decided to focus my magazine on this genre. I am also interested in hip hop and rap so I felt this would be give me more ideas for my product and allow me to relate with my target audience.

How did you attract/address your audience?

 I feel I have attracted my audience in a variety of ways. For example on my front page I have used an image which fills the majority of the page to grab my audiences’ attention. I have used the image of Josh as he is 15 years of age and is in the age group I have targeted my magazine at. In each of the images I have used I took into consideration what the people were wearing as I wanted the audience to relate to the magazine for example people with the same style in clothes. I have used conventions in order to attract my target audience. For example a conventional layout which I felt would attract my audience. The fonts I have used are also conventional and are bold to attract the audience’s attention. I feel the colour scheme I have used also addresses’ my target audience as I have used neutral colours and fonts instead of using a distinctive colour such as pink. I also collected audience feedback throughout my project to make sure they liked my design and colours I used. 

This presentation is going to include another two questions: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? and 

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

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Audience feedback

After finishing with my front cover, contents page and double page spread I' ve decided to ask some people  from my school what do they think about my magazine. As an interviewer I've picked Abrar Quashem as his English is good enough and easy to understand. Abrar interviewed four people from three different years. All of them were aged as my target audience was.

The magazine

On this post I am going to show you the final drafts of my magazine and how will my magazine look :

Double page spread

Hello, today I have finally finished craeting my double page spread and I am going to show you how it was created "step by step"

Firstly, I've put the picture and the heading as it is the first thing which attracts a viewers attraction. During designing my page I decided that I will stick with stereotypical double page spread when there is a picture on the left handside and the text on the right one

After completing my first step I started working on my second one. I've added page numbers and the ropic from the front page in order to concentrate viewer's attention even more.

On the third step I' ve added the interview itself. However, I didn't have enough space to fit the whole interview, therefore, I am going to create a second double page spread for this article. Unfortunately, I am not going to post the process of creating the second page here :(

On the fourth, and hopefully the last, step I have put everything into staright lines and highlighted the questions,so the reader can easier get through the interview in order to find specific questions/answers he/she is looking for. Also, if you compare this draft to my design it was changed as I didn't have any space to put the lure "I tak 3 L's to the head : LOVE.LIFE.LIVE". There have been some more changes in the draft compared to how it was planned to be such as the allocation of the picture ( it was moved to the left) and there also is an extra page for current topic.

As you can see I still had to make some changes as the interview had some spelling mistakes in it. Also I've added more arrows so it is easier to see that there is another DPS for this interview.

the Interview

Today I've spent my time on inteviewing Josh.. The interview went quite well and it is long enough to even create two double page spreads. I have listed the interview underneath if anyone would be interested to read it:

TE: Hello Joshua and thank you for coming today!

Jo z : Hey.

TE: So how does it feel to be back in London, the place where you started from?

Jo z: Feels a bit funny, because it is where I was born and where I belong really. I clearly remember learning how to ride a bike and how I went to school for the first time, mostly everything.

TE: Wow, must bring good memories to you then.. Where exactly were you born in London?

Jo z: Hackney, East London. Probably the worst area to be born in London.

TE: Did it affect your life in any way?

Jo z: Yes it did, the first time I saw someone being shot was when I was 9. So I had loads of experience and kind of always knew how you can end up being if you mess with wrong people.

TE: Have you ever had anything to do with these “wrong people”?

 Jo z: Well, when we are young we always want to try something knew so at some point I was with the wrong group of people but it all changed when rap came into my life. I knew I had to make the right decision otherwise my life was going to the same way as many teenage boys before me.

TE: So how old were you when you started to rap?

Jo z: When I was 10 but it was mainly just playing around with some words, I was 15 when I seriously started thinking about this as a career.

TE: What made you think you could become successful?

Jo z: I was popular on the streets and people liked my music. I could have been walking back from school and some older people would just give me a lift, that’s how popular and respected I was getting at some point. I took every opportunity to perform in front of groups. I loved the attention and I knew I was good.

TE: Was there anyone who didn’t like what you were doing?

Jo z: There are always haters in anything you do, so I remember my mates getting involved and being jealous about the attention I was getting but it didn’t really stop me.

TE: So how did you end up being popular worldwide not just in East London?

Jo z: Once, while I was selling my albums out of my car, some big guy came up to me and asked me if my name was Joshua so I said yes. I didn’t realise that this guy was going to change a lot for me, it was Jay-z. He was just walking around with his bodyguards and he saw me trying to survive on the streets by selling music so he took me as his apprentice and helped me out a lot. My life changed over night. We left London and I spent the next few years in America recording and hanging out.

TE: Now it doesn’t seem you are struggling, I can tell that by looking at your watch. Do you still keep on touch with Jay-z as he doesn’t need to help you to survive anymore?

Jo z: (laughs).. You make me laugh man, I don’t struggle now but I am trying to help people who do, just the way Jay-z did it for me! Obviously we do keep in touch, he is like a father to me and I love him a lot, also Jay-z is my music mentor so I can’t really get away from him.

TE: That’s great that music has helped you to find some real friends, how is your new album doing?

Jo z: It is great, almost finished and will be out in a couple of months; I worked hard on this one and put everything I had into it. As Jay-z taught me “every new album must be a bit better than the previous one”

TE: Never thought you can improve anything in your music, you are just a great rapper Jo z! How is your new charity website project doing?

Jo z: It is doing really well as most of my fans are really nice people and they wouldn’t mind giving some money to people who struggle or need it.

TE: So what type of charity are you supporting?

Jo z: I help poor people in Nigeria as it is my second home and I just can’t stand seeing people struggling there.

TE: Do you spend any of your money on donations then?

Jo z: hmm.. Not really, I prefer saving than giving if you know what I mean, but obviously I do a lot for this charity! As I am getting older, I start realising that saving or donating money is way better than wasting it in one night. I changed a lot since the last time you saw me.

Contents page making

After finishing my front page, which has taken the most of the time as I planned I am starting working on my contents page. In my plan my music magazine supposed to have two contents pages but I am going to create just one in order to help you to understand what's going to be like. Here is my first draft of the contents page :

As it is my first draft I am obviously going to create some changes. I have decided to work on contents itself such as adding more information on :

As I have planned I was working on adding more information into contents bit. However, it went over Bosco's shoulder so I am going to try to put it around now.

Now I have made the changes I've planned to make and now I am going to clearfy who's the main star of this page ( Bosco) :

To finish the page and make it look very good I've added the issue number and the logo.. Also I've put some arrows to make sure the reader understands that there is another contents page: