EVALUATION QUESTION 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

(Speech from Voki)

The way my media product represents particular social groups was through the way I had advertised names of other big artists on the music magazine for UP also known as Underground Publicity. The names of the artists were, Eminem, MGK, The Game, 50 Cent and Hopsin.
These artists fit in well with the age group which is aged around 16 to 20. When creating the magazine I looked back at my survey, this helped me get results to add in and construct the music magazine. The way I managed to make it relate to the audience was through the layout of the front cover and contents page. I managed to also use a simple amount of colours to make it relevent to the group age rather than making it more colourful to make it seem out of place in not being the right type of music magazine for the certain target audience.

EVALUATION QUESTION 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

DPS - Links to front cover and contents page.

DPS - Final Double Page Spread Complete

After all the research done and used to construct the double page spread for the magazine, I finally managed to complete it with a similar layout compared to my flat plan that I used. As you can see I've added in quotes next to the artists images and also for the picture manipulated it by using tools such as clone stamp and brightness adjusters. Following on from these images they were both taken separately, however I managed to make it seem as if they were both together taking the picture at the same time. Also the month and year of the magazines issue was added due to some inspirations from other magazines that I looked at during my DPS market research. And to make it look original I added in the Logo from the magazine including web links to people can see that it looks more professional and official. Lastly the colour used throughout the whole page exactly resembles the contents page and front cover as it's all linked into one thing so nothing is left out in odd positions and the mast head is bold and strong looking to show people that it's a Rap and Hip Hop genre music magazine. The layout in general for this magazine feels more underground now rather than pop and soft.

DPS - Adding in some graphics

Following on from the contents page when I used the arrow graphics. To continue this I decided to use another arrow to follow on from its own originality to show the readers to turn the page. Looking back at my surveys the audience did recommend having at least a few graphics but making sure not to over do it. So in order to do this I created the arrow and red background following on from the colours and then merged it to drag onto photo shop. From this It let me easily put it on the bottom right corner of the page so it is in the right position.

DPS - Photoshopping using clone stamp

After adding in the pictures onto the DPS, I used some of the softwares to edit the pictures so it's more clear and professional for the audience to see. So what I did was to use the clone stamp tool to remove any spots or from the artists and shade a bit of the lighting to make it a bit more brighter than usual.

Here is a picture after I was done.

As you can see, the picture of the artist is now much more clear and more visual to see as I've used the tools from photoshop to create this.

DPS Layout

Starting off with the DPS, I've managed to copy my DPS flat plan and put it onto photoshop so I can use this as a template to structure out everything much quicker so I know what I need to put and where I need to put it. As you can see so far in this picture I have put out the lines that i drew out and added the main heading for the DPS.

Following on from this I then began to add in more. But since the DPS flat plan that I had didn't quite fill what I needed I decided to go back to my research on the DPS and use Ideas from the magazines I looked at which were XXL, Vibe and The source and this is how the layout has changed.

As you can now see, I've changed the layout to a similar layout with professional music magazines, however to keep original I did something different which was put the music magazines logo on the left corner just underneath the text and extend the main heading through out the whole page. I also added in the issue month and year and what inspired me to do this was use my research on DPS which i got from the XXL magazines DPS. Another thing I added was an arrow graphic which followed on from the contents page to add some originality in to indicate the audience to turn the page over. I've also got online weblinks for the any of the readers that are interested to continue reading on and finding out new articles online.