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Evaluation Question 7

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Evaluation Question 5

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Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your 
media product and why?
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Evaluation Question 2

COVER

 The front cover of my magazine, in comparison with XXL appears to represent similar ideals. My cover has a stereotypical representation of a rap artist as I represented a young, rebellious male. The pose I set up reinforces the stereotype that rap artists are very rebellious as he has his tongue out and looks aggressive. I also gave him a gold tooth, exactly like the image on XXL which is stereotypically associated with rap music. As my model is male, I represent the male gender in actually quite a negative light even though this is unintentional. Due to the aggressive facial expression, I make young men appear angry and confrontational. The fact that my cover, and the cover of XXL has a close up image, I represent rap fans/young men as being very confrontational and not afraid to stand up to the rest of society. Overall, my front cover shows a stereotypical representation of a rap fan, as shown by the comparison between it and XXL. I did this through technical and symbolic codes mostly, but I also used some written codes thanks to the pull quote that I placed on the cover.

CONTENTS

 My contents page represents stereotypical ideals, as can be seen by the side by side comparison above with a real hip-hop magazine. My model is wearing a large black sweatshirt, like the model in The Source contents page, a stereotypical style associated with the rap genre. I use the same model here as the cover but I represented him in a different way as he looks much calmer and mature in this image. When couple with my cover, I give the impression that my young, rebellious target audience are actually multi layered and more thoughtful than my cover gave the impression that they were. The 'Contents' is in a graffiti style which, through technical codes, represents teenagers/young adults as vandals which could be interpreted as a negative representation, however, with the technical code of my models calm facial expression, I think that I am actually representing them as thoughtful and not disrespectful in the way that they express their art. With the social media links on my magazine, I represent a young, tech-savvy generation who always like to stay connected with each other through these means. Both models, on my contents and The Source's one, are young men so I represent the male gender and the young-adult generation.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation question 1 from ethanhoody

Double Page Spread FINAL

Contents FINAL

Cover FINAL

Focus Group

Focus Group

Gold Tooth in Photoshop

The feedback from my initial front cover design told me to make the cover image look more suited to the hip-hop genre so I decided to make one of the models teeth stand out from the black and white as gold.To do so I looked up a tutorial on how to make objects look gold on YouTube (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zGBsq7uF6w) and so learnt how to do it.

1) The first thing I had to do was select the tooth using the quick select tool, pictured left and then create a duplicate of the background layer to turn gold while preserving the original image. 

2) Next I went to image> adjustments> hue/saturation then selected colourise, so I could adjust the colour of the tooth, then moved the sliders for hue, saturation and lightness around until I found a balance I was happy with.

3) The next step was to use the dodge tool and go around the edges of the tooth to give it more shine/make it more realistic.

4) Then I went to filter> render> lighting effects to make the gold have more texture and shine and experimented with the sliders until I was happy with the result.

5) I then went to filter> render> lens flare and changed the brightness to look like light reflecting off the tooth.

6) Finally, I used the burn tool to give the tooth more texture as a final touch before it was complete.

Peer/Teacher Feedback

Peer Review and Teacher Feedback

Photoshoot

COVER IMAGE

CONTENTS MAIN IMAGE

DPS IMAGES

Double Page Spread Interview

Media DPS Interview

Contents Articles

Media Contents

Photoshoot Inspiration

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Uploading Using Issuu

While trying to upload my Flat Plan I discovered how to upload documents to my blog in a magazine style using Issuu.

1) The first thing I did was convert my Cover, Contents and Double Page Spread Flat Plans into separate PDFs.
2) Next I had to merge the separate files by using a website called smallpdf.com (pictured below)

3) Once I had merged the files into one PDF (pictured above) I could finally then upload the document to issuu.com and create an embed code using their Embed Widget tool. (pictured below)

Magazine Flat Plan