3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?

My magazine would be distributed by a music industry, the major theme being rap because of the theme of my media product is rap. This would hopefully be distributed by them because I would want it to be able to reach the target audience for it to sell. However my magazine could be sold by a mainstream music industry as well becuase the type of rappers I have used within my magazine are mainstream.
http://www.billboard.com/#/ http://www.vibe.com/ This websites are possible musioc industrys that could sell magazines that are related with rap. Also my magazines could be bought at newsagents, music shops, and they could be sold on tour with some of the rappers names included.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product is based at a particular social group. My main theme for my magazine is rap so I would want my magazine to be aimed at a group of people that listen to rap music. I have used iconography to try and promte the rap magazine. I used hoodies, microphones, real peole that rap and jewellery in my photgraphy. Also my magazine would be more male dominated as the models are all male, the coulours are quite dark and rap does appeal more to men where as females would prefer to listen to pop.

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

Firstly I had to make my masthead stand out and be unique to the rest of the magazine. I made my title, cover the whole of the top like it has in this 'Empire' magazine, and i made it a complete different colour to the rest of my magazine. My background is black and white so I made my title blue. Also I adapted to the title and made adjustments to it so it could stand out from anything else.

My main image has to be able to grab and attract the viewers in so that they will want to read it and buy it. My main image has to cover up the whole of the front page as that is what the magazine's focus is on. If the main image doesn't stand out, then the magzine looks weak. I made my main image overlap the mast head if it had to as it is the main focus and I made it cover the whole of the page for effect.

My cover lines were of different fonts, and different colours like they are within this magazine. I used them in different places all over the front cover. I used different fonts for effects, and I used different colours to make sure they were identified as different things, like they have in this magazine for the different names of films.

Also the background has to be relevant to the product. In this magazine we can see the American flag as it represents Captain America, with my one I have used a black and white background to represent Example's new album 'Playing in the Shadows'. The backgroyund within the front cover has to integrate becuase it helps tell us what the type of genre the magazine is and sometimes help us focus more on the main story.

Drafts

These are the drafts that  i created to help me design my final product. By using my research on other magazines, I tried to combine different elements of the magazines to see which drafts would work.

Genre analysis of double page article spread magazine

By analysing this double page spread, I now know that certain elements can make a different target audience be attracted to it. I know that when it comes to making my media product, I will know what elements are needed to make it work.

Genre Analysis of contents page magazines

The contents page on here have been analysed by me and they have helped me to see what makes a contents page good and relevant to the certain genre. This will help me to make my magzine contents page and help aim at my target audience.



Genre analysis of front covers of magazines

Using these magazines, I now know what makes a magzine  realte to a certain type of genre. I also know what different type of genres are favoured by different target audiences. These analysis's of the magzines will help me to make my own media product and what will make it look good.