Evaluation Task 4

Evaluation Task 3

Evaluation Task 2

How does your magazine represent a particular social group?

The genre of my magazine is UK Grime. This means that the stereotypical target audience of this genre is mostly young teens and young adults aged around 16-26, both male and female.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                To attract my audience I told myself that I needed photos for my magazine that would relate to my audience. I went ahead and found my model which was in the age margin for who i wanted to target with my magazine. 

I also thought that if I wanted to appeal to my target I needed the model to fit in with the fashion style of people within the age margin but also within the grime genre. In my pictures throughout my magazine, shows him wearing a black hoodie, black bomber jacket, and a baseball cap. These are typical clothing items that a lot of our generation these days wear. This means that the magazine will relate to a lot of people and attract them. He is also wearing a gold chain and a gold watch. This shows that within this genre comes success which also motivates a lot of young people out there. As clothing and fashion is a huge passion for people nowadays, especially people within my target audience, I think that the fashion used in the pictures in my magazine will create a bond within the audience. 

My magazine will be aimed at all ethnic groups as it is mostly targeted for the people's passion for this music genre.

Evaluation Task 1

In what what does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real magazines?

My magazine uses the conventions of a magazine but also developed in a way to make my magazine unique in my way. I do not challenge any conventions because i follow through with the conventions required in a magazine.

For my title, i followed to conventions of a magazine. I created my title using inspiration from current magazines. The title for my magazine is quite common in the magazine industry. I researched a lot of magazines and saw that the letters are most of the time close together. I then decided i will go ahead and use this style in my magazine. I used the magazine 'FADER' as inspiration for my magazine title.

I decided to go with a similar style and layout of the front cover of 'FADER' magazine. I placed the main title and the main coverline in the same places as the 'FADER' magazine as i liked the simple but effective look of it.

 I also added a few of my touches to it to make it look unique and not too similar to the 'FADER' magazine. These include colour. I used a different colour on the main coverline, whereas, 'FADER' uses white or black most of the time. I used colour as i want my magazine to stand out from all the other music magazines. I stuck to the colour scheme which was mostly black, white and grey but also a couple of colours from the clothes of the model such as orange.
 I also stuck to the convention of the title being big and bold to stand out to the audience and grab the readers attention. I also kept the original convention of a normal magazine and placed the bar code at the bottom left of my magazine with the price of the magazine above it.
 Another similarity between my magazine and a lot of music magazines, especially grime, is the medium shot of a music artist in the centre of the page of the front cover. 

Formative feedback - Miss Hunter

WWW: Ron - your recent updates are good. Your case study is detailed and thoughtful.


EBI: Some of your statements need more explanation. E.g you have said that a monochrome colour scheme links to grime - explain why they link.


Next steps: Publish all your recent work to your blog. Push yourself to complete your magazine and to begin your evaluation.