Question 1

Question 1

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  Question 1- Inwhat ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e. of music magazines)
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  This is themasthead of my pop music magazine. I have called my music magazine Listen because I asked teenagers between the ages of 12-16+ what name they would like the magazine to be called and this was the name that the majority of teenagers voted for. I thought of this name because the audience listens to music so I thought it was a good name to call a music magazine. On my front cover I have used a simple font which other magazines use such as cosmopolitan magazine. I have spread the text across the top of the page which is used in most magazines usually the main image over laps the text but I thought that the text needed to stand out and be clear because sometimes the image makes it hard for the audience to read the masthead for example Glamour magazine has the “M” covered by the image. Although most magazines have used this technique I decided that I wanted my magazine to be different for the rest. I have coloured the text white because it made it stand out more. I wanted to use pink originally because most teen magazine have a pink masthead but I didn’t want to overpower the colour pink because I used a lot of pink further down the page.
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  This is mymagazine front cover. The layout of my front cover follows some of the traditional conventions of magazine. I have placed the mast head at the top of the page and stretched it across so it fits across the top. This is used in many magazines so I wanted to use this convention in my magazine. I have also got a bottom strip line which is used in pop music magazine I have looked at but not normally a convention in a glamour/ professional magazine. Although I wanted to make my magazine professional I wanted to follow the conventions of a pop music magazine. This bottom strap line includes prizes to win and images of features inside the magazine. In other pop music magazine I they use this bottom strap line to promote competitions and prizes. I have also used a puff which is a common convention in all magazines. I have used mine to promote a prize which the audience can win by entering a competition inside the magazine. I have also used straplines which all magazines have to entice the readers in. I have made my strapline quite small which most magazine have a lot of straplines on both sides of the main image. I wanted to make my straplines small so the audience would focus mainly on the image and the main feature in this magazine. Straplines are a main convention in any magazine. My main image is in the middle of the page which most magazine front cover images are in the middle of the page so I thought I would follow the same conventions to make my magazine similar to ones on the market.
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  By looking atmy front cover you can tell my magazine is made for teenage girls and that it is a pop music magazine. The first thing that could give it away is the colours I have used. I have used three main pink, white and yellow. These colours are seen as girly and feminine. Another factor that you can tell this magazine is made for girls is that the main image is of a teenage girl which would be more relatable to a teenager then to a person of an older generation. A factor that the audience would tell that my magazine is made for pop music and teenage girls is the One Direction poster. The poster appeals to the teenage audience because they are one of the biggest boy bands. So by looking at this poster it is obvious to see that this magazine is pop because One Direction are known for their pop music.
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  In my magazinecontents page I looked at other music magazines contents pages and most pop music magazines have features about fashion and celebrities so I decided to follow the same conventions to make my magazine similar to others on the market. I have four text boxes that all feature different things throughout the magazine. Most pop music magazine have many sections of their contents page so I have split my text boxes up like the layout on other pop music magazines. I have quite a lot of white space but most magazines are like this because they don’t want to over crowd the reader when they open the magazine. I have spread out the images so that this page does not look cluttered. The masthead is the same as the masthead on the front of the magazine this is a common convention of any magazine that the font of the mast head is the same on both contents page and front cover.
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  I have usedimages of people that feature on the front cover of my magazine. I have done this because in other pop music magazine I saw that they used the same people on the font but in different outfits. So I followed the same conventions of other pop music magazines. I have also added images of the same people for repetition to let the audience know exactly who is featured in this magazine.
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  For the titleof the magazine I have used the same font style as the front of the magazine. I have done this because in almost every magazine they use the same font style for the title of the magazine and the contents page masthead. I have used the same font style for the text as the font on the front cover. I have done this because it makes the magazine flow as the font styles are the same. I have used a different font style for the headers for each text box. I have used a font style that is different because most headings are different to the actual text. I have only used three font styles on this page.
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  The mise enscene of this image is the model reflection. I have cut out the model and just kept the reflection because it makes the model look more mysterious. The image has no colour only black and white which makes the model stands out. The gold and silver foil stands out against the models skin tone. The model is also wearing black which blends in with the black and white background. The other three images I have made black and white but kept the colour of the gold and silver foil.
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  For this imageI used gold and silver foil which I stuck onto the models face with special face glue on the models face because I was looking up makeup looks on google images and found a makeup look similar to this and I decided to recreate this look.
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  In my doublepage spread I have made up an interview about the person on the front of the magazine. I have made up eleven questions and wrote an answer to all of them in the perspective of a pop artist just starting out in the music industry. I have made up an interview because in most magazines the double page spread is an interview with a pop music artist usually the one on the front cover. I have wrote about how she started out in the music industry and what is she going to do in the future. For these questions I looked at other music magazines double page interview and adapted the questions to make them my own.