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Last week I did my presentation and went well (I will be uploading it to my blog soon) The main problem i had is that i did not include 4 photos and on the syllabus it says you need 4 pictures whereas I only had 3. From this feedback I have now imported two screenshots from Melodi's video and put it into the interview to make it look more interesting and relate to what he is saying. I recieved alot of positive feedback on the fact i specified my target audience.

How does my music magazine represent particular social groups ?

My magazine represents grime being a genre which is not as appreciated as other genres so therefore it represents young males (my targeted audience) as being young and different developing a new style of music also this represents Melodi of being fit and young by his baseball jacket being worn also his posture shows alot of confidence and strength.

Looking back at my preliminary task, what do I feel I have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I believe I have improved so much since my preliminary task due to my improved understanding of InDesign therefore I have learnt a lot of the specifics in using the program. I have also learnt more about the codes and conventions and how essential they are, due to learning more of the denotations of some of the codes and conventions for music magazines. I have improved thanks to the feedback from miss norville but also from my class mates and Jamie who helped me with specific problems with the program such as cropping and sorting out the layers and many more different minor problems that I come across. From my preliminary task I have learnt I need to stick to certain colors and fonts instead of mixing them up.

What have I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From my magazine I have learnt how to use InDesign much better than when I made my school magazine, I used photoshop only to crop pictures but everything else in InDesign. In my front cover I was able to change colors of the text to make certain parts stand out I also learnt how to rotate text at angles. In my contents I put pictures behind the text which was something I didnt know how to do but learnt due to the help of Jamie. Finally in my double page spread I learnt how to bend the text around the image in order to make it more interesting and different than some double page spreads in music magazines, therefore I challenged the codes and conventions.
I approached InDesign not knowing where to start but I learnt from my school magazine what I should do first, so first I did the background with a gradient which set the mood then I did the title which reflected the background after that I got the mid shot photo of Melodi so then I could see exactly how much space I have to fill in with anything I want, which helped me construct my time well. Overally I think I have improved tremendously since my school magazine because of my use with InDesign.

How did I attract my audience?

In order to attract my audience I began by attracting grime fans by using the colours from http://www.grimedaily.com/ because this is the main source to grime music also i used a similar logo as the title as Grime Daily because this would catch grime fans eyes. I used Melodi as my main photo because he is an upcoming artist who is heading in the right direction so for young people who have a dream they can look up to Melodi in a way to show that anyone can do what they put there heart to. Wretch 32 is one of the best grime artists in the UK with a huge fan base so I included his latest single in my magazine because it is a succesful grime song in the charts which doesnt happen often so putting that there attracts people who are interested in that song. Additionally I attracted Melodi's fans by putting his latest mixtape on the front and made the the name 'Minor To A Major Vol. 1' in white to make it stand out, Melodi's fans will see this and will want to hear it.

Who is the targeted audience?

The audience of my magazine is generally 12 – 20 year olds who are interested in grime music but it can narrow down to teenagers who are interested to enter the grime scene because I included a interview with ‘Melodi’ and that shows his journey which can be inspiring. It is not targetted at any specific gender however mostly males are interested in grime. Also I included a rhetorical question including 'Lady Gaga' who is a worldwide artist so therefore her fans would be interested in the magazine, which also applies to the other grime artists i included along the side. Also rap music as a whole has mainly attracted black people but over the years white people are interested in the music so it is not targeted at any specific race.

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What kind of media institution might distribute my media product and why?

A low budget brand new media institituion may be interested in distributing my magazine because there are no grime magazines out at the moment and that may be because Grime as a genre have not evolved enough and there needs to be more fans in general for Grime. So therefore this brand new media institution will be more able to take risks and distribute my magazine. Also a media institution which focuses on younger people would distribute my magazine because the majority of grime fans are teenagers and also the magazine is inspiring as it would appeal to young people who have a dream.

In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When I started my grime magazine I knew I wouldnt be able to fully follow the codes and conventions of a music magazine because I had trouble doing my researching due to the fact there were no grime magazines I could find so I had to use hip hop and rap magazines as my research as it is a similar genre. So I used a magazine called Source as my template but as this was a brand new genre to make a magazine for I used my iniatitive and challenged the conventions of using black white and red by using black white and dark orange and i used dark orange because that is from the grime daily website which is the main source to grime music so therefore would catch grime fans eyes.

I also used a mid shot photo and placed it into the same position as the one shown on the source magazine above, but to develop this convention I inserted more captions around my one so it would look like theres more to expect from my magazine, additionally i followed  and developed the convention of writing a main eye catching question at the top of the magazine by doing a rhetorical question under the title but also adding small captions at the top of it.