Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Part 1 ... by KatieBegg on GoAnimate
Part 2... by KatieBegg on GoAnimate

Double Page Spread Final Draft

Contents Page Final Draft

Front Cover Final Draft

Contents Page and Double Page Spread Progress

Contents Page
I have started and finished my contents page. I did this by adding a picture of my model on the left hand side and from my research I have noticed that similar rap magazines have used the subtitles "features" and "fashion" so I used them both in my own magaziene and decided to change the colour scheme to black and pink which matches the colour of my models clothes and lips as she was the main subject of this issue.

On rap magazines that I have seen such as VIBE, I have noticed that they list popular artists and write a small opening line about them to give the reader an idea of the content on those particular pages. I decided to do this on my contents and page and use a variation of colours and font sizes to make the magazine look as interesting and professional as possible.

Double Page Spread
I have completed my double page spread and I again decided to stick with the colour scheme I used on the contents - as the main subject is Miss G and the colours tie in with her clothing and general look. Although this is a rap magazine I wanted to bring a new perspective to it and include contents specifically for girls to widen the variety of my audience, because usually when you look at rap magazines the typical codes and conventions link to males and don't always look very female friendly, so I thought I'd take aspects of rap magazines and alter it to produce what I have produced on my double page spread.

When looking at VIBE magazine and their double page spreads, I have noticed that they put a photo of the subject on one side of the article and sometimes smaller images. I like this idea and I tried to make my double page spread look similar but with my own spin on it.

Further Magazine Progress

During todays lesson I decided to change the font of my title to make it look a bit more quirky and suited to the genre. I also added in my feature stories down the side, including lots of different artists in the rap industry right now with interesting sub-headlines.

I thought it would also be a good idea to put some popular artist names across the top of my magazine to give the reader an idea of the content in my magazine - this would change with each issue depending on what artists are in the media and what artists I am writing about.

I decided to go with the theme of yellow and red as they are strong contrasting colours, which at the same time compliment each other by helping the opposite stand out.

My Front Cover Progress

During last lesson I edited a photograph from my photo shoot that I thought was most suited to the front cover of my magazine. I also came up with the name 'GOLD' to be the title - mainly because of the gold jewellary that my model is wearing around her neck, but also because I thought it was quite a new and fresh name for a rap genre magazine.

I also experimented with the positioning and size of the photograph of my model. I decided to place her on top of the title because when I was doing my research I saw that lots of magazines - especially "VIBE" did this on their magazines and it shows that they want to show all of the subject on the front cover and show that they're powerful.