Media Evaluation

At first when we analaysed the 'NME' magazine we saw that this particular magazine used alot of forms and conventions, these help classify the sub-genre of a magazine. The sub-genre of our magazine is urban. Our magazine uses many real life conventions, just like many other magazines, such as a Masthead, a main cover line, barcode, price and issue date. The name of our magazine 'Swagga Magga' represents teenagers. It would appeal to teenagers as the term 'Swagga' is a slang word that is commonly used. To help appeal teenagers, we have included images of popular rnb celebrities. Our main audience ranges between the ages of 13 - 19.

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We studied the generic conventions of magazines; what has to be on a magazine, we also had to make sure our magazine was appealing to our target audience. We aimed our magazine; our target audience, at females, who prefferably have a boyfriend who buys and reads 'swagga-magga' in order for the females to recieve 'bagga-magga' as its a special edition magazine. However our secondary audience is single males who recieve the magazine free and read the female edition. We followed the generic conventions very well, we placed a barcode on with the help from photoshop we also used a title, subheading and many photo's, we used photographs of celebrities such as j.lo, alicia keyes and christina millian, as most females look up to or want to aspire to be a celebrity such as themselves, and want to read about them. Having their picture there would also boost the readers self esteem if for instance it was a 3 page spreadout of the celebrities looking horrid or gaining alot of weight. This makes people feel comfortable at the fact that if they can do it so can you, thus to not put as much pressure on your every day females.
Our magazine represents an r'n'b social group, a more urban group, using an everyday photo as the main image

Photoshop (editing)

We spent this lesson editing and adding final touches to our magazine cover. We also took pictures off of google and moved them to our magazine cover, this was very effective because it made the readers want to read on because if they catch a glimpse of a celebrity that they like they would be intrested. We then added thease to a banner, also on this banner was the price and the bar code. This looked very effective but we still needed to make the page look more busy. In order to do this we added random phases on the page, but we made them snazzy and eye catching. For example in the background of the orignal picture their is steps, so for one of my phases we called it 5 easy steps for the best swagga.

Other things we did was change marikas eye colour to green, we found that this will just give her the edge and bois might be attracted towards it. We also did the same thing for miles but we added facial hair on his top lip an chin. We found that this will make him look more mature an also more hunky. in addition to these changes we air brushed both of their faces.

We found that thease changes made our magazine complete and look very profesional.

october 8th

This lesson we added our finishing touches onto our magazine front cover, and started designing the inside page, we chose to follow the black white and orange theeme that had been displayed on the main page. We used different photos inside to create a variation and had many sub-headings, we rotated our images to make them seem more eye catching and interesting rather than flat straight dull pictures. Making sure the font was readable from a certain distance and whether or not it stood out was another difficulty. We needed eye catching colours and photos and after using the shadow tool, we felt all of our problems wern't so bad.

october 6th

This lesson we split our group of four into two. Ashton and I were editing our magazine Bagga-Magga. First we airbrushed the photo; enhanced eye colour, made our skin flawless, even added facial hair. We then added the title and used 2 text layers and put them behind eachother to apear 3d. We then came across a problem, Miles' head was behind the text and as we'd used the original backround it took some time with our steady hands with the magnetic lasoo tool to enable miles' head to be infront of the text, this would make the photo stand out more.we chose the colours white and a deep orange, as the theeme.

monday 29th september.

This lesson Ashton, Miles, Khaledia and I we're given a camera to capture unique photos for our magazine cover. We had the option of choosing a unique backround and not transfer the persons face/body to a different back round. Or we could use the magnet lasso tool. When taking the photo we had decided we wanted to use steps as our backround, and as we were in a school environment we had decided to simply use the steps in school, thus stick with an original backround, this enabled us to write our captions on the steps to give our magazine an edgy look.

We took many pictures in all different locations to provide us with a variety and incase we had any ideas whilst in the later stage of editing to use other photos in a particular location. Our magazines both; Swagga-Magga and Bagga-Magga, applied the smart black and white classy theeme, and this was reflected in our style of dress. we wanted a unique yet casual photo that people could aspire to be/have, for example our chosen main image photo is of Miles and I appearing as an item, people may aspire to have a boyfriend one day. Or most people will relate to this. We chose a photo that maintained eye contact with the camera to appear that we are staring at the reader. This is scene as inviting and subliminally encourages buyers to buy the magazine.

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