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The Fonts used for Hip hop magazines are usually bold and thick fonts in either black or bright colors, predominantly blacks and reds for male artists and pinks for Female artists. I attempted to have Red and Black throughout and demolish the stereotypes of gender.

The layouts of the front covers of hip hop magazines tend to be a mid shot image of a artist posing in a unique way to them and then the main cover line around their waist and the mast head behind their head. There are usually then only a few other cover lines on the page usually located to the left.

The Contents page of hip hop magazines are normally rather plain looking with one huge image and the use of the magazines color scheme. Again i challenged this as I felt i had a lot more to offer in terms or content and information.

The  double page spreads in hip hop magazines tend have a lot of images, over a third of the double page spread is an image, one third the title and the remaining third is usually the interview itself and the main text is kept to a minimum and just gets straight to the point.

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My Double Page Spread also sticks to my house style and it links very well, easily recognizable to the audience so they know that it’s a part of PHRESH. I decided upon having a captioned montage of images take up the left page as it fits the feature of the page and also the context of the interview. I then had interview and another small image on the other page. I chose my double page spread to have Q and A format and give the impression that Janelle is new to the scene and people are just finding out about her.

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I decided I’d have a double page for my contents instead of a single page as I wanted to show that the magazine is very busy, with a lot happening. I feel a double page will be more interesting and informative than a single page.

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My contents is spread over two pages. I included an edited image to show three of the same artist as a ‘story telling’ effect. With a caption and underneath a teaser of the article, next to that on the right i have out in a social media column, filled with tweets readers have sent in about what they liked in previous issues of the magazine. Also i have added advertisement for subscriptions and the online magazine website. On the left page  I have a column along the left side of an editors letter explaining the context on the magazine and what the issue is based around. Next to that I decided to switch things up, challenging the normal organised contents page numbers by having it staggered and very visual. With that i included what the features, news and reviews are inside.

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My masthead runs across top of the page in one of the largest fonts which greatly adheres to the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover, i decided not to challenge this conventionas I thought it looked more professional.

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The colours contrast my black and white image which makes it stand out and i think it connects with the genre of my magazine – hip hop. With the Image being a woman, this challenges the conventions as mostly on hip hop covers a man is imaged. However when a woman is published on the cover, they are posed in a ‘sexual’ or ‘vulnerable’ way which i have tried to portray.

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My Front cover adheres to the general conventions with having a pug, central image, masthead running across the top, headline and a strap line. My front cover uses 3 main colors that i initiated throughout the rest of my magazine which are red, white and black making up my house style.

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When creating my media products I did a lot of research into other magazines similar to the one I want to create,like Vibe and Billboard to get ideas to inspire my front cover, contents page and double page spread.

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The central image on my front cover has a direct mode of address as the model looks straight into the camera, which creates more emotional effectstowards the audience. This is common in music magazines as the publisher of the magazine wants you to build an instant connection with the reader in order to help appeal to the audience to interest them into buying it.

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I have included a bar code, date and issue number at the bottom of the left hand side.This is conventional for most music magazines as it informs the reader when the magazine was released and how many issues have been released prior to the current issue.

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My music magazine uses most of the conventional codes that are commonly recognized in most music magazines. These aspects of my magazine include the title block (Masthead) which is positioned in the left at the top of the page, which is common in most magazines as it is crucial for people to establish and recognize the title and name of the magazine they are buying.

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Rianne Murrain AS Media Evaluation - Question One

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Rianne Murrain AS Media Evaluation - Question One

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