Evaluation: Question 1 PREPARATION.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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+ Denotations/connotations. Music/hip hop/rap magazine. Contrast real magazines with my magazine.
+ How is it recognisable as belonging to my genre of rap/hip hop? ...compare techniques used in my magazine
   taken from researched magazines. I.E- VIBE, XXL.
+ Conventions (ingredients of a genre)
+ Try and use as many terms as possible from the glossary.
+ Have I done anything to try and challenge the conventions? EG- have I tried to rebel against certain  
   techniques used in rap/hip hop magazines? IE- not using bold fonts, imagery etc. Have I gone with the
   stereotypical elements used in rap/hip hop magazines?
+ Talk about fonts, bleeds, masthead, column gutters, pull-quotes, running mastheads, puffs etc...

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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1- how is it possible to recognise your magazine as a real magazine?
Using my own magazine, I have drawn many comparisons to 'real' magazines such as VIBE and XXL by using similar fonts, colours, music-related content and a clean, crisp layout. I believe that using bold, and somewhat simple fonts enable the content and title of magazine to emphasise the minimalism I intended to incorporate into my layout. Simplicity makes the magazine easy to read, thus ensuring that there are no problems with being unable to read certain fonts. The colours are plain, and work well on contrasting colour backgrounds; such as black on white, and red on black. Due to the comparisons I have created between my magazine and the magazines i have researched prior to production, I believe my magazine is eligible to be classed as a 'real' magazine.


2- how is it recognisable as belonging to your sub-genre of magazine? (rap/hip hop)
I aimed to produce a rap and hip hop music magazine appropriate for lovers of this genre.
It is easy to recognise that I have created a magazine to fit my own criteria of designing a rap/hip hop magazine for people aged between 15 and 24, rated either C1, C2 or D on the Jicnars Scale. The outfits that my models are wearing in the images on my front cover, contents page and double page spread reflect fashion associated with rap and hip hop, mainly consisting of baseball caps, baggy jeans and hooded sweaters. The colours are red, black, white and grey which connote power and dominance; two elements associated with rap and hip hop. I used lexis appropriate to the genre, as opposed to formal language as it contrasts with the ideology of informality in hip hop/rap. 


3- have you done anything to challenge these conventions and what was your reason for doing so?
Regarding challenging conventions of a typical 'real' rap magazine, I found that exploring rural locations for my photoshoots would contrast well to the stereotypical urban locations that would be expected within a rap/hip hop magazine, for example- outside high rise buildings, along streets, infront of statues. Regarding the layout of my magazine, I didnt feel it essential to challenge conventions, as I wanted mine to resemble popular-real magazines as much as possible in order to create a dominant layout representation of big selling magazines. However, I believe that choosing a white-font masthead to cover a blue background would oppose typical 'real' magazine techniques, as i understand that it may not always be clear to the reader, although, i feel that the colour of my masthead is sufficient for my magazine, and the white adds the simplicity I intended to incorporate into it.




I aimed to produce a rap and hip hop music magazine, appropriate for lovers of this genre, aged between 15 and 24. In comparison to other rap/hip hop magazines, I have used fonts to replicate fonts used within VIBE magazine, and XXL magazine, as I believed that a bold, sans serif font would be most appropriate to the genre, given it's informality.