Magazine Conventions...

Denotation- Facts, police descriptions, what you actually see,

Conotations -Descriptive words, opinions, interpretation of meaning

Foundation Portfolio:

• Magazine Production
• 2 Tasks- Preliminary and Main task
• Coursework worth 50% of AS grade
• Main task:

Music Magzine:

Front cover, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine

20 marks- Research and planning

60 marks- Constructing

20 marks- Evaluation

Music Magazines:

• NME
• XXL
• Mojo
• Mix Mag
• Q
• The Source
• VIBE
• KERRANG

Music magazine:

• Genre conventions
• Pictures
• Reviews-albums,singles,live shows
• Album releases
• Genre specific
• Interviews
• Latest News
• Advertising

Why do we do genre research?

• To find out what conventions are so that we can replicate them in our production.
• To gain a historical overview of the genre.

Mise-en-scene

• Setting
• Lighting
• Props
• Costume
• Hair/Make-up

Hip Hop Magazine analysis

Music Magazine plan

Genre - I have decided that my music magazine will be based on Hip Hop. I decided to do this because I'm very much interested in this genre and most familiar with it. I listen to alot of music from this genre. My magazine will cover the East Coast/Beast Coast Movement, Pro Era, Odd Future those are some of the subgenres of hip hop. I will also include some of the many artists that aren't yet mainstream.

 

 

Target Audience - My target audience are mainly teenagers from roughly about 15-19.

Not only is it becoming popular in america it has also become a new fad in London as many youths have started to mimick some of the trends that have resurrected in America, I will make sure to add some new trends so that any fashionistas/hipsters that are interested can also not find out about music but also some of the latest fashion trends and what these celebs are wearing.

 

Name - I have a few lists of names that I may consider using for example, There is 'FUTURE', 'NOIR', 'OUTKAST' these are the few that I am struggling to choose I want the name to be short and also leave the audience wanting to read what is inside. After asking a few people many have told me that they like the name 'NOIR' so I may use that title

 

Focal Image - The main image will portray my models doing something very deviant making them look like a menace to the society and also making them look very anti social and violent.

 

Mood Board

 

 

Contents page analysis

 

I've decided to analyse this content page because I like the layout of it and I'd like to do something similar for my music magazine contents page.

This content page does not look like a normal content page because it does not have the usual layout of a contents page. In most magazine there will be lot's of pictures showing something related to the article that was advertised on the front cover. While this one only shows a picture of 2 models I believe this makes the models stand out more because they are giving only one main image to look at other than the page references.

The image of Shanelle and Nicki Minaj is the main focus of this content page because it covers more than half of this page, this is a full body shot of the females without their legs cropped out you can see from head to toe, They are both looking in the direction of the camera which I think will appeal to the readers I believe this is more effective that they are both looking into the camera very seductively.

This content page still covers some of the convetions, such as the title of a article with a page number and small description of the article to make the readers clear on what its about, this content page only has 1 main collumn which is uniqe because most of the content pages I have looked at had 3 or more collumns, In my opinion I think that when there is less information on the content page it looks more professional and also less tacky and cluttered.

The colour scheme is kept to a minimum, there are lots of darker shades for example there is cream, a dark leaf green and also black. I think that this combination work well and is appealing to the readers, Other magazines prefer to use very bold and vibrant colours to catch their audiences attention but I believe that this colour scheme worked.