Main Task: Unmanipulated Photos

I will not be using this image as the mise en scene is not correctly formatted as the image has a low key lighting and the image is not highly appealing.












This photo will be my double page spread image.












This photo will be on my contents page for fashion, the lightings good and the pose is a fair replica style of vogue.



















Ive chosen this photo to be my front cover because it's edgy, the background is very nice and the models and props represent an R&B/ Hip Hop edge.


















This photo will be on my contents page for gossip as it seems to be the 'new hottest' couple are spotted together about to head off to town?

Main Task: Mood Board

Main Task: Profiling Your Audience

Base Reader

Tikarah, 18 has fortunately experienced the love and passion for music, her genre she feels she belongs to is R&B and Hip Hop. This young, fresh and firey genre has influenced Tikarah in varies ways for instance the way she dresses. In the following image you can see she is wearing a snap-back which all the young hip hop artists e.g Tyga, Chris Brown and Teyanna Taylor wear. Another identified influence would be the way she speaks, her body posture and the friends she chooses to appear with.

Tikarah takes part in music related activites such as talent shows in local areas which are created for the youth who have various talents that enjoys sharing their passion with others. She also attends concerts of artists from Kanye West to Beyonce an addition to listening to her music on her blackberry phone.

Whenever music is around you will find Tikarah right beside it as she's a devoted fan to R&B and Hip Hop. She loves to be unique but how she does that is to take bits away from her inspirational artists and then does the rest herself. Mainly Hip Hop has helped Tikarah form into the person she is today and without music she'd be in a lost world.

Main Task: Audience Research

 

 

I now know that i will definitely be doing a R&B and Hip Hop magazine as it should grab more eyes from the public as it seems to be todays craze. I also know that I need to include fashion for mainly the ladies, Gossip and whats new in the music business/industry and also the latest music releases and the new hottest artist out in my magazine considering those were the main things that were mentioned in my screen grabs above. My colour scheme will be basic with vibrant colours to grab the readers attention however it wouldn't be too much different, bright colours to make it look tacky and amateur.

Main task: Double Page Spread Conventions Diagram

Main task: Contents Page Conventions Diagram

Main task: Front Cover Conventions Diagram

Main Task: Double Page Spread Textual Analysis

-Denotation: A double page spread magazine page of man with black hair who dominates the whole spread as he's placed on the left of the page. The man seems to be on a stage as he's firmly holding onto the mic stand with his head down facing towards the ground this connotes that he hasn't started to perform yet and is just about to flick his hair and begin to sing. This double page spread also includes three little boxed images of what portrays to be band members on the bottom right of the spread and one box on the left page.

-Connotation: A band, singing and playing gauitar to an audience. Handling business in the studio.

Mise en scene

Costume: The image of the dominant man on the left hand side of the double page spread is casually dressed in full black. Jeans and Jeans jacket and plain black t-shirt. He looks like he could be in a rock band.

Props: The props used in all four images are a mic and stand, guitar and what seems to be in the middle image is a studio equalizer which connotes that they're in the studio.

NVC: The man that is on the left hand side of this double page spread's non-verbal communication portrays to be comfortable and in his zone as he is performing. In the smaller images below, the men look very focused and ready for business especially the image on the bottom right as it portrays the man to be connecting to his music as he sings.

Lighting: This double page spread has been done in black and white however there is a high key lighting for the dominant picture on the left hand side as it shows a light reflecting on him to make his image bright. The smaller images also have a high key lighting especially the bottom, end right as its background is white.

Setting: The double page spread picture shows that the images were set on a stage, this connotes the obvious that the spread is about music. The smaller images settings were in a studio however the one on the far left looks like it was set on the same stage as the dominant picture.

Anchor: The font is basic but bold which prints a good statement and gives easy impressions to the reader that this double page spread is about music. The colours 'red and white' which were used was very appropriate and not too over the top.

Magazine Conventions

Masthead: The masthead "We're being the best Mcr we can be!" is very distinctive as they mixed the writing with red and white and also refers to them trying to be the best which is shown in the images as they all show dedication to music, being in the studio recording, making decisions and having dicussions then performing their music.

Dateline: There isn't a date line on this double page spread, this connotes that there isn't a dealine date for its release.

Main Image: The main image of this double page spread is an image of a man that looks like he's in his early twenty's, he's perofming with a live band as you can see the drummer faintly in the background.

Cover-lines: The cover-line on this page states, "My chemical romance invite Keerang! To their recording studio". This connotes that the band MCR are being very open to the world to come and have a snoop around their business.

Main Task: Front Cover Texture Analysis

-Denotation:
This Hip Hop magazine has a picture of five male rappers that are directly looking into the camera, all of their faces are serious except one. The front cover is a long shot showing them all from head to toe. The background of this magazine front cover is very nutural with darker shades at the top which is 'grey'. This colour contrasts with what the men are wearing in the photo because they're all wearing dark colours. Behind two of the guys heads is the magazine masthead 'XXL' and infront of them bellow the waist are four cover-lines which are in white and yellow with the stroke of black giving the words boldness to allow it to pop out to the readers. The five rappers names are bellow the cover-line 'A new breed of hustlers featuring' in correct order of where they're standing/sitting in order to tell the readers who's who. the bar code is rotated but clearly placed on the bottom left corner.

-Connotation:
There's five men, they all look like rappers or represent the individual cover-line 'Hustlers'.

Mise en scene

Costume: They all have on dark colours which are blue denuim and black. They're all wearing shirts and one of them is wearing a jumper. These clothes are very casual maybe an everyday outfit for men. Three of them are wearing black baseball caps which seem to be new era hats, what americans are known to wear. Two of them are wearing flashy jewellery i.e. big diamond chains.

Props: The fact that this photograph is very basic and straight forward there arent many props just a few which are the chair that the guy in the middle, 'Nipsey Hussle' is sitting on which then allows the rest of the men to crowd around giving different levels of height. The second prop included in this photo is the wires on the floor which is indicating a mic to probably be attached to the end of it or wires of a dj set and speakers.

NVC: Their non-verbal communication is very strong and serious to make them look like hard as nails. One of them are smiling which portrays him to be the funny one out of the bunch but the rest of them are sending a non-verbal message to the readers that they're ready for business.

Lighting: The lighting in this magazine cover is low key as it's not very bright, infact it's kind of dull and dusty but it gives the effect of a grimey look.

Setting: The front cover of this magazine does not have a background as it is a two shaded colour. This may be due to the style they were trying to portray for this Hip Hop magazine.

Anchor: For this genre of this music magazine the font of the masthead and cover-lines that have been used go with the 'Hip Hop' genre. This was purposely done so that the readers immediately identify what type of magazine it is.

Magazine Conventions

Masthead: The 'XXL' masthead is pretty distinctive as it has a background colour of red with large, bold white writing. this is very effective. The masthead connotes a young and fresh hip hop magazine.

Dateline: The dateline on the front cover of this magazine writes, "April 2010" which connotes that the release date was for that month.

Main Image: The main image on this magazine front cover is shared by five successful American hip hop rappers, J. Cole left end, Pill right of J. Cole, Nipsey Hussle sitting in the chair, Wiz Khalifa the right of Nipsey Hussle and Oj Da Juiceman on the right end. They are placed to represent gangsters with the clothing and the body postures. They all look confident.

Cover-lines: The cover line that says, "A new breed of hustlers" represents the new generation of hip hop. This connotes that the old hustlers/ hip hop artists' are old news and they should now be looking into the new and improved 'hustlers'.

Main Cover-line: The main cover-line links to the image, which says '10 freshmen for 10'. This is refering to the image although there are five men who are on the front cover but its showing thats the first five who are the new up and coming rappers for 2010.

Selling line: The selling line is 'Hip Hop on a higher level' which indicates to hip hop fans that the normal standard of hip hop has just been raised by the guys on the front cover. The selling line is very short but it drags the reader into wanting to know how and when this has happened.

Website link: The website link is 'xxlmag.com' it is placed on the bottom of the bar code. The connotation of the website link is for people to be able to go onto the site to further their knowledge on behalf of hip hop and the new hustlers in town.

Target audience: I think the target audience is for the ages between 13-30 depending on the level of hip hop interest. This magazine applies to both genders but more over to boys/man as the magazine is male dominated considering the photo is of men and they're talking about hustlers and not ladies.

Main Task: Introduction

My name is Shadean Murray Wilson, I'm a student at Christ The King Sixthform, its my first year and i am studying, AS Media, AS English Language, AS Sociology and AS Performance Studies. This week I will begin my project to produce a music magazine which will include a front cover, contents page and a double paged spread. I have chosen to create a Hip-Hop and RnB magazine because the target age varies and i want my magazine to draw the attention 0f all ages. My target is to create an interesting, eye capturing magazine with enough information for the reader to want to continue reading on.

Preliminary Task: Front Cover & Contents Page Mock Ups

Preliminary Task: Contents Page FINAL

Preliminary Task: Front Cover FINAL

Preliminary Task Front Cover Conventions Diagram

Preliminary Task: Front Cover Textual Anaylsis

Denotation: A picture of a man on the front of a college magazine, in his mid twenty's representing education.

Connotation: A demonstration of a educational college magazine, the upper half of a man's body showing that he is holding books. A lot of writing on the image, using bright colour schemes for the texts, (yellow, green, white and pink) portraying warm, comforting meanings. He is persumed to be the 'young hip' college student; followed through with a smile concluding he's happy and glad to be furthering his education.

Costume: The man is costumed to be smartly cassual, black modern styled leather jacket, plain white t-shirt showing the reader he's not fussy with appearance as maybe his main interests are in learning, thats more important.

Props: He's wearing a chain with a crucifix attached to it indicating that hes religious however to attract the young people. He's holding law and society books.

NVC: His non-verbal communication is highly laid back as hes standing slanted, even though he's not in a suit and tie standing straight and firmly doesnt make him look like a slob he still looks classy and representable for an educational magazine. Also his pose gives off to the reader that college life isnt so hard.

Lighting: The lighting of this image is dark so its a low-key lighting.

Setting: The setting seems to be in front of a black shady wallpaper as theres nothing included in the background, its just plain and simple, but sometimes simples more.

The title 'College' is the biggest font on the image, the text is in a vibrant, young colour (green). The font used for all of the text seems to be 'trebuchet' bold. The fact that theres such bright colours on such a dark background shows a mixture of feelings to do with maturity (black and white) however, not growing up to fast then on the other hand theres 'fun' (green and pink) but know's how to remain focussed.

The bar code is smartly placed at the front of the magazine to automatically show people that the magazine they're purchasing is accurate, also to specify the product isn't being mistaken for a similar-looking item.

All of the headings are targeted to the youth to relate to them better yet to allow them to relate to the words in the magazine. The headings are cool and captivating to college students, e.g. 'why we love blackberry', that phrase alone automatically draws in the target reader because blackberry's are the new craze of todays generation.

Induction: Movie Poster Textual Analysis

This is a poster of the Indiana Jones movie which has a man standing infront of a cave and a firey skull for the background.

Costumes: The characters 'costume' is a simple khaki loose trousers and shirt with a old fashioned hat. The mans' sleeves are roled up indicating he will be patrolling through paths which may be dauntingly chanllenging.

Props: He's holding a whip in his hand showing his adventure may be dangerous which will lead to a time to protect himself. the whip is seen to be his signature weapon as normally characters will have either knifes or guns but his prop isn't typical.

NVC: The man is standing with a bold posture, proving his confidence and masculinity. His facial expression is serious, shows that he's not playing around and he is ready for business. Both fists are clenched together angrily as if he's ready to fight.

Lighting: The lighting is set to be low-key as theres areas which are really dark, but the background mainly involves the scary golden skull which would be under high-key lighting.

Setting: The setting isn't so obvious as there's dark areas yet the bright light coming from the skull makes it difficult to tell however, it seems to be set in the jungle based in a cave, with vines surrounding the dark shadow's with stairs behind the character most probably leading the way to the 'Crystal Skull'.

Anchorage: The colour of the title is the same as the skull behind the man with a black rim around the letters to enable the font to be bold. The colour of the rim also duplicates the dark black shadow's.

Induction: Re-Creation of a Movie Magazine Front Cover

I have never used photoshop before however after the first 10minutes into the lesson i caught the hang of some area's in photoshop for instance, I was able to put layers together to create the heading, I managed to get similar fonts and colours. unfortunately i was unable to finish as i didnt know how to access my work from home although there should be no excuse. Some parts were indeed difficult as i didnt know how to do the bar code but hopefully within the next lesson I'm able to learn more about photoshop in able for me to catch up with work and finish all pieces of work set.