The music magazine created by myself and Jenai, uses develops and challenges forms and conventions of real music magazines in many different ways. Firstly, our masthead is very stereotypical. It is in a font that is clear and easy to read, and it is blue. Also, the main cover image is placed in front of the masthead like on most magazine front covers.
We both decided that the skate park was a good place to take the pictures for our magazine. The reason for this is because at this one, like most skate parks, there is a lot of graffiti, and this gives it a very urban look. We thought this would be relevant for our magazine, because our music magazine is focusing on urban/rap music. The picture is an eye-level medium shot. We did not manipulate the photographs we took in Photoshop; we just cropped out the background in some of them. The reason we cropped out the background was so the actual model herself would capture the attention of readers, not the background.
The outfit that Jenai is wearing the picture was not particularly planned, she just wore what she felt would relate to our magazine. She settled with a simple grey/blue jumper, beige coat, leggings and chestnut uggs.
The main feature in our magazine was Jenai herself. There was no particular reason for this, just our other model couldn't make it to the shoot, so Jenai stepped up. But the fact that Jenai is a teenager, might attract teenagers to the magazine. Also, the fact that she is a female, might attract more males to the magazine.
The font we decided on for the masthead is a font used by a group called 'BBK' which stands for 'Boy Better Know'. Jenai and myself enjoy listening to there music, and we also like the font used to write 'Boy Better Know' and this is the reason we chose that font. For the rest of the writing, for example the contents or the interview or stories on the double page spread, we used just a simple font. This is so it's easy for everyone to read, and doesn't take the attention off of the images. This is in some ways following the codes and conventions of real music magazines. Most real magazines use an interesting font for the masthead or headlines etc, but then for the main articles and things, they use simple fonts.
On the front cover, contents and double page spread, we didn't use particularly formal language, but it wasn't informal either, it was just average. Even though we were mainly trying to target people who like rap, we want to also attract people enjoy other genres, so we didn't set a particular tone to our writing.
Genre is reflected well in our magazine, because even though stereotypically rap is for males, our model is a female. Also the main story is about a female rap group. This will attract males to the magazine because obviously there are pictures of females and thats what males like to see. Also, females will be attracted to it, because the pictures will make them feel like they can relate if they listen to that kind of music.
Firstly, the front cover. It is very much following the codes and conventions of real music magazines. As you can see the bar code is placed in the bottom right hand corner. This is just like on a real music magazine. Also the main cover image is placed in front of the masthead.. This is also following the codes and conventions. We didn't deliberately do this to make it look like other magazines that is just the way it turned out. Also the contents page is in some ways following the codes and conventions. There is a part which says about subscribing, which you would usually find on the contents page in real music magazines. And lastly, our double page spread doesn't follow any of the codes and conventions of a real music magazine.
Overall, we have mostly followed the codes and conventions instead of challenging them, but this doesn't mean we haven't challenged them in some areas. The reason we mostly followed the codes, is so that we didn't dissatisfy the audience who we were trying to attract. Because obviously audiences have expectations, and if we challenge the codes and conventions too much, the audience could easily be disappointed which is what we don't want.
The main feature in our magazine was Jenai herself. There was no particular reason for this, just our other model couldn't make it to the shoot, so Jenai stepped up. But the fact that Jenai is a teenager, might attract teenagers to the magazine. Also, the fact that she is a female, might attract more males to the magazine.
The font we decided on for the masthead is a font used by a group called 'BBK' which stands for 'Boy Better Know'. Jenai and myself enjoy listening to there music, and we also like the font used to write 'Boy Better Know' and this is the reason we chose that font. For the rest of the writing, for example the contents or the interview or stories on the double page spread, we used just a simple font. This is so it's easy for everyone to read, and doesn't take the attention off of the images. This is in some ways following the codes and conventions of real music magazines. Most real magazines use an interesting font for the masthead or headlines etc, but then for the main articles and things, they use simple fonts.
On the front cover, contents and double page spread, we didn't use particularly formal language, but it wasn't informal either, it was just average. Even though we were mainly trying to target people who like rap, we want to also attract people enjoy other genres, so we didn't set a particular tone to our writing.
Genre is reflected well in our magazine, because even though stereotypically rap is for males, our model is a female. Also the main story is about a female rap group. This will attract males to the magazine because obviously there are pictures of females and thats what males like to see. Also, females will be attracted to it, because the pictures will make them feel like they can relate if they listen to that kind of music.
Firstly, the front cover. It is very much following the codes and conventions of real music magazines. As you can see the bar code is placed in the bottom right hand corner. This is just like on a real music magazine. Also the main cover image is placed in front of the masthead.. This is also following the codes and conventions. We didn't deliberately do this to make it look like other magazines that is just the way it turned out. Also the contents page is in some ways following the codes and conventions. There is a part which says about subscribing, which you would usually find on the contents page in real music magazines. And lastly, our double page spread doesn't follow any of the codes and conventions of a real music magazine.
Overall, we have mostly followed the codes and conventions instead of challenging them, but this doesn't mean we haven't challenged them in some areas. The reason we mostly followed the codes, is so that we didn't dissatisfy the audience who we were trying to attract. Because obviously audiences have expectations, and if we challenge the codes and conventions too much, the audience could easily be disappointed which is what we don't want.
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