2. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
products? The “Vibe” conventions
for the eyebrow is,
The “Vibe” conventions majority of the “Vibe”
for the masthead is the magazines will have an
large bold writing, being eyebrow at the top of the
covered slightly by the cover.
central image
The “Vibe” conventions
for the central image is,
they are mostly placed in
the middle or occasionally
The “Vibe” conventions for to the side, with the
the cover line, is that the “model” looking directly
main article is mostly the at the camera.
largest text on the front
cover, relating back to the
central image as well, giving The “Vibe” conventions
more of an insight to the for the barcode is, they
audience are mainly placed at the
bottom on the cover on
either side, sometimes on
its side and sometimes
straight
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
I went along with the products? I placed my central image to
convention of an eyebrow, the right of the page, leaving
this shows the readers what room on the left to promote
may be inside the magazine what is in the magazine, I
as they are all RnB artists used a female so that my
magazine would attract both
genders and made the
On my magazine image large showing that the
cover, I went with the female plays a big part on
tradition convention this edition of the magazine.
of a large and bold
masthead behind the
central image.
Another convention that I “Vibe” has their barcode
followed was that the rotated in several ways in
largest text on the front new editions of the
cover is the main article magazine, but I decided to go
inside the magazine and against the convention of the
relates to the central image. sample cover that I used to
make it look different.
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
“contents” is in a large font, products?
bold and also black so that it
stands out from the grey
background. The word has been
broken down into chucks, which
isn’t very conventional for The “Vibe” conventions for
regular magazines. the central image is a long
shot, placed on the right
side of the page, they are
looking directly at the
camera which is quite
The “Vibe” conventions for the
common in the vibe content
sub heading is that the font if
pages. The central image of
different compared to the rest
the content page would
of the font used on the page,
attract males readers just as
making it stand out showing
much as female readers as
that it is a sub heading.
the 2 ladies are wearing
rather revealing clothes
making themselves look
quite sexual and appealing to
mean.
5. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
I followed the convention of a As for the central image I
large font for “Contents” and I products? followed the conventions of
also went along with the idea of having the image to the right
an unconventional way of of the page, putting two
writing “Contents”. Something I images of the same person
did different was add an outline together instead of two
to the text and used another different people. I made him
font compared to the sample have an intense look on his
contents page. face to attract the female
audience to read the
magazine. Another thing I did
was cut off the legs of the
model rather than having an
full long shot.
The “Vibe” conventions for the This is not present in the
sub heading is that the font if contents page sample that
different, so I went along with I used, I went completely
that convention, changing the against the conventions
font to something more script and added an extra bit of
like in the sample that I have text to the right corner of
analysed, but this time I gave the page and made it
it an outline to make it stand large with an outline in
out. order for it to draw
attention from the
audience.
6. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
products?
The “Vibe”
convention for the This is the
page number is put heading of the
on the top corners of double page
the pages, one on spread, the
the left and one on convention of the
the right, along with heading is that,
their website too. each word is in
the same font but
in different font
sizes, they have
The first page on also used 2
the double page different colours.
spread has a full
bleed image of the
artist, the artist is
not giving direct
eye contact to the
camera either, the
artist has a speaker Credit has ben given to the The article is set in 3 columns, this
box as a prop in the photographer at the bottom article is a interview, hence the
image giving up an of the image in very small reason why the questions are in
hint about what it text, something that is bold. They have separated the
is that he does. conventional with a lot of questions and answers together
magazines, not just “Vibe”. leaving space in between.
7. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge the conventions of real media
I also have an full
bleed image on the
products? I followed the
convention of the
first page of my heading for my
double page double page
spread, following spread, but did
the vibe convention not use other
of the sample that I colours, I only
earlier analysed. I used black, which
have made my goes partly against
model sit on a the convention.
music box, with
headphones in her The double page
ears making it look spread that I
stereotypical of an analysed did not
artist and again my have an
model is not Discography, it
looking directly to was just an
the camera either. interview, so I
went against
Here I went completely against that convention
Credit has been given to the the typical conventions of a I challenged the conventions and added an
photographer at the bottom double page spread and added of the page number, by discography for
of the image in very small an image in the middle of my placing it in the bottom right Nicole
text, something that is article. I thought I would be a corner of the right page Scherzinger into
conventional with a lot of little rebellious and make it my along with the website for my article.
magazines, not just “Vibe”. own. my magazine.
8. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
The colours I have used
for my contents page are,
Black, blue & red. I kept this
theme going on from the
front cover and made very
few changes. The reasons
why I picked these colours
is cause they work for both
genders, they are all pretty
dark colours and stand out
The colours I have used for my
as they are bold.
double page spread are again,
I have used a variety of
Red, black and blue, with a hint of
fonts, representing that
white in the text. Red is a good
nothing is the same in the
representation for a girl, red is the
music industry, everything
colour of “Love” and this way it
is different and everyone is
shows that the artist obviously
different individually.
loves their career.
I haven’t used many different
fonts on the double page spread
as I wanted it too look a little
neutral and not over done as this
The broken up “contents” is a magazine for 16-25 year olds
represents that the younger and not for small kids.
generation are willing to try new
things and not make everything
look so simple.
9. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
My magazine would not sell unless I am joined to a publishing company and a company
that is willing to distribute my magazine. If I want my media product to sell I will have to
go to a institution that sells a lot of magazines and know that they are doing so, I would
join forces with “Future media with passion” in order to distribute
my magazine. They have been in the Media industry since 1985.
The magazine example that I used “Vibe” Is published by “Vibe
Media|Access network” .
As my magazines is a music magazine, I would like for my
Magazine to be sold in places where a lot of people shop, such as
The super market, news paper stands where people walk past and can see my magazine
on the shelf. Shops such as “WHSmith” would be a great idea too, as they sell a lot of
magazines daily and my target audience would be seen there regularly as majority of
them would be students. News agents would definitely be ideal, as they are everywhere
and easy to access by all ages between 16-25 years old.
10. I made sure my article
Using teenagers as was interesting so that
my models my audience wouldn’t
get bored of reading it I added a discography
in my article so that my
audience could search
Turning my models up the artist’s music if
into award winning
artists that people How did you need be
would recognise attract/address your
audience? I kept my contents
I used some informal
language which my page simple but
target audience added 2 large images
I kept the images of a attractive male
could adapt to rather large so that to gain the attention
The colour scheme is they would stand out of female readers
quite bold and
stands out, not plain
or boring
11. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I have used a wide variety of technologies to For my photo-shoot's I used the TV studio in
construct my product, but the two main college, for the first photo-shoot I used a white
programmes that I used to construct my music backdrop & from my second photo-shoot I used
magazine was adobe InDesign and Photoshop. the black backdrop along with the overhead
At first I found using both InDesign and spot lights so that the flash on the camera that I
Photoshop rather hard, they were fairly new to was using was not needed. The camera I used
me and their was a lot to learn, but later on I was a Nikon SLR. I didn’t use a camera stand as I
started to pick up on everything. wanted to get shoots from various angles.
I used Microsoft word to type up my article Using the camera wasn’t a problem for me as
in, this one software that I’m very familiar with I have used SLR’s in the past and pick up on new
so I had no both using it. things like that quite quickly.
A lot of the information that I gathered for my In order to upload any presentations or word
article I found from the internet when I was documents I have to use “slideshare”, which is a
doing my research. I found the websites using long process but is the best way to view the
Google search engine, this gave me a wide documents.
choices of websites that I could look at to help
me with my research.
12. Looking back at your preliminary exercise, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?
Every time I look back out the preliminary exercise I fell like
that was when I didn’t know anything about constructing a
magazine, it looks so childish and unfinished compared to my
music magazine. I really learnt how to put together a
magazine, how to use all of the available software's for editing.
My college magazine looks rather messy and all over the
place, where as my music magazine looks neat and shows that
I’ve spent a lot of time on it to make it look good.
I learnt that the way a product looks is very important, the
audience won’t be interested unless it stands out to them, this
includes the use of colours, the layout and the way the text is
written out, depending on what your target age group is.
Planning the college magazine was easy, the photos didn’t
have to be perfect, whereas for my music magazine they had
to be perfect if I want people to actually be interested in my
magazine.
A lot of research and planning went into my final product,
without this it would be incomplete and would all over the
place, it was so important that I planned out exactly what I
wanted it to look like and what I wanted in my magazine too.
