My Reader Profile

This is Jason , he is 17 years old and lives in London with his Mother and 2 younger siblings . He enjoys rap music and feels there's so many elements in the genre that he can listen to it in whatever mood he is in. He enjoys artists such as Kanye West , ASAP Rocky , and J Cole.In his spare time , other than listening to music avidly , he goes to college. He finds the instrumentals of Hip hop music amazing and because of this he also creates instrumentals taking inspiration from the music he listens to in his spare time hoping to one day make it big in the world of music.

XXL magazine deconstruction

Hip hop magazines Moodboard

This is my Hip Hop Magazine moodbard which I created to help me understand more about the common conventions in hip hop magazines and to gain inspiration.
Please click here to view my moodboard.

Magazine conventions comparisons

To get an idea of general conventions in popular magazines I have compared XXL magazine with Q magazine , which are two completely separate genres. This has given me more insight into conventions I should be using in my own magazine and as to why editors of magazines may of made specific decisions , such as the use of color and font to express something to the consumer.

I have found that both use red and white in their mastheads to make them "pop".
Both music magazines have predominantly male models on their front covers , and using different fonts for different artists to convey different personalities and music genres ,for instance an Ed Sheeran front cover had red serif font as he makes love ballads that may appeal to more women than men , while for a magazine cover with The Killers they have used a sans serif grey font which is a lot more powerful because of first their name "The Killers" and second they make rock music , this font is a lot more fitting for that genre than the font they used for the Ed Sheeran cover.

                                           

My AS media blog !

Welcome to my AS media blog , I will be using this space to publish all my thoughts and ideas towards completing the preliminary task that I have been given to complete by the 18th of October.

The brief I have been given for this preliminary task is to create a new music magazine front cover using photoshop.

I have chosen to create a new hip hop magazine , before I start making my own front cover I will look at first of all common conventions of music magazines in general and compare them with each other, looking at how using certain features may imply or send across a message to the reader , e.g. using bold black sans serif font for a rock magazine in comparison to using a serif black font for a classical music magazine , then look at common conventions specifically in hip hop magazines such as XXL , Billboard , Fader and The source in order to keep my hip hop magazine relevant.

I have chosen to create a hip hop magazine as this is my favourite genre of music and therefore I have a good knowledge of the culture and artists that are currently relevant. I would say because of this I have a good idea of what someone that is interested in hip hop would want to read in a hip hop magazine, this would help me with deciding which features stories I should put on the front cover to entice the buyer.

The Nine Media Forms

 

9 Media Forms are

Film 

Music

Radio 

Television 

Newspapers 

Magazines

Online 

Marketing 

Video games 

The Media Theoretical Framework

What is the media theoretical framework?

The media theoretical framework consists of 5 components which are:

Media language - this is the way the director communicates and expresses something to the audience without using words , just his media form.

Media representations - this is how the media stereotypes and portrays age , gender , class , ethnicity , religion , sexuality and ability / disability.

Media industries - this is how the media industries process of production and circulation (e.g advertisement) affects media and its platforms.

Media audiences - this looks at everything to do with the audience , for example , the target audience , how would the audience respond and interpret the media.

Media contexts - this looks at the information surrounding the media and would help you gain more understanding of the piece , for example , what was going on in the country at the set time , the context is the backstory of the piece.