Media evaluation
Question 1: For my magazine the way I have laid out my text is similar to how it is on a real magazine. Without a real magazine in front of you I think it is really hard to lay things out according to a real magazine.
The codes and conventions that I have used on my magazine are stereotypes. Without reading the magazine a random person could have a quick look at the front cover and stereotype there and then. For my sell line I have used a pull quote, by doing this it catches the reader’s attention more quickly in a short bit of time. To make my magazine really realistic in the diegetic world I have copied the styles of other magazines. The types of things that I have copied are things like whereabouts their titles are spaced and placed on the front cover. Also where the date, barcode and price is on the front cover. I had to put it accurately in the same place as the real magazine, so when I put these two magazines together you won’t be able to tell which I made and which is the actual one.
Question 2: From my front cover of my magazine anyone could stereotype or judge it without reading anything about it but just by looking at the front cover. In the media there are lots of representations that are portrayed on magazines and then stories are made which aren’t true. If a random person had a quick look at my magazine then they would quickly think that it is a gangster kind of magazine for males. They’d be right for thinking that it’s a magazine aimed at males but they should open it and read it before using their own initiative about what the purpose of it is. Even the costume of my character may be judged in a wrong way, because he’s wearing a cap and slightly informal clothes as people would stereotypically say. Also people would think that the clothes he is wearing aren’t relay appropriate for a front cover but instead he should’ve been wearing a smart outfit. But like I mentioned before people need to read the magazine then they will understand that the information inside it does match with the person on the front and is costume goes with it too. A magazine wouldn’t be a realistic one if the person on the front was connotating a more formal look by the costume but then inside all the information is to do with Rap etc.
For my magazine I have reinforced stereotypical images which make people think the negative way, but they definately need to read more to get their views in a straight line. On my front cover as you can see I have a medium shot of a young white male. Stereotypically people will assume that he does music like R n B and hip hop etc. But that isn’t the case he’s a young white male but bases his music on a political basis and look at things in a different way to how an R n B artist would.
Question 3: The company or type of people that would distribute my magazine would be a UK music magazine preferably a political music company. They won’t really be a conglomerate they’d maybe be an independent company but still have links with huge music companies. I think the circulation for my type of magazine will be in the middle somewhere. It’s promoted to the public by being sold in shops maybe used on companies websites to show that this is what they distribute. I think that my magazine will have a TV/radio station, by doing this it will be more successful and will reach a wider audience across the UK. Therefore my magazine will be more popular and will be more known by people. By having more than one type of media it’s more likely that the word about the magazine is around. Having more than one type of media is called cross media ownership.
Question 4: The target audience for my product are male teenagers, 16-24. Today because there is a huge impact and discussion on the political side of things, I think more teenagers are aware of this therefore have a little more knowledge into it. So my magazine will be a clear outlook for them to read and interpret information and also learn new things they never knew before.
Here is an image of my front cover the image that I have used here automatically shows who the target audience are and who the magazine is aimed at. If an elderly person sees this magazine they will know that it’s not aimed at them but it’s for the younger generation. They will be able to tell this from the image that is used, from the type of text and maybe the colour and also the way things are set out on it.
Question 1: For my magazine the way I have laid out my text is similar to how it is on a real magazine. Without a real magazine in front of you I think it is really hard to lay things out according to a real magazine.
The codes and conventions that I have used on my magazine are stereotypes. Without reading the magazine a random person could have a quick look at the front cover and stereotype there and then. For my sell line I have used a pull quote, by doing this it catches the reader’s attention more quickly in a short bit of time. To make my magazine really realistic in the diegetic world I have copied the styles of other magazines. The types of things that I have copied are things like whereabouts their titles are spaced and placed on the front cover. Also where the date, barcode and price is on the front cover. I had to put it accurately in the same place as the real magazine, so when I put these two magazines together you won’t be able to tell which I made and which is the actual one.
Question 2: From my front cover of my magazine anyone could stereotype or judge it without reading anything about it but just by looking at the front cover. In the media there are lots of representations that are portrayed on magazines and then stories are made which aren’t true. If a random person had a quick look at my magazine then they would quickly think that it is a gangster kind of magazine for males. They’d be right for thinking that it’s a magazine aimed at males but they should open it and read it before using their own initiative about what the purpose of it is. Even the costume of my character may be judged in a wrong way, because he’s wearing a cap and slightly informal clothes as people would stereotypically say. Also people would think that the clothes he is wearing aren’t relay appropriate for a front cover but instead he should’ve been wearing a smart outfit. But like I mentioned before people need to read the magazine then they will understand that the information inside it does match with the person on the front and is costume goes with it too. A magazine wouldn’t be a realistic one if the person on the front was connotating a more formal look by the costume but then inside all the information is to do with Rap etc.
For my magazine I have reinforced stereotypical images which make people think the negative way, but they definately need to read more to get their views in a straight line. On my front cover as you can see I have a medium shot of a young white male. Stereotypically people will assume that he does music like R n B and hip hop etc. But that isn’t the case he’s a young white male but bases his music on a political basis and look at things in a different way to how an R n B artist would.
Question 3: The company or type of people that would distribute my magazine would be a UK music magazine preferably a political music company. They won’t really be a conglomerate they’d maybe be an independent company but still have links with huge music companies. I think the circulation for my type of magazine will be in the middle somewhere. It’s promoted to the public by being sold in shops maybe used on companies websites to show that this is what they distribute. I think that my magazine will have a TV/radio station, by doing this it will be more successful and will reach a wider audience across the UK. Therefore my magazine will be more popular and will be more known by people. By having more than one type of media it’s more likely that the word about the magazine is around. Having more than one type of media is called cross media ownership.
Question 4: The target audience for my product are male teenagers, 16-24. Today because there is a huge impact and discussion on the political side of things, I think more teenagers are aware of this therefore have a little more knowledge into it. So my magazine will be a clear outlook for them to read and interpret information and also learn new things they never knew before.
Here is an image of my front cover the image that I have used here automatically shows who the target audience are and who the magazine is aimed at. If an elderly person sees this magazine they will know that it’s not aimed at them but it’s for the younger generation. They will be able to tell this from the image that is used, from the type of text and maybe the colour and also the way things are set out on it.
