Monday, 31 October 2016
Friday, 28 October 2016
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Research into R&B
Laura Mulvey’s male gaze theory: women are objectified
through the eyes of a heterosexual male.
Janice Winship’s notion of complicity: the female tries to
make a version of herself to be enjoyed by men.
David Gauntlette’s empowered female: that women are in charge
of themselves and do not use their sexuality or promisciousicity for men.
These are general images from R&B but many like this are used
in their magazines.
I will demonstrate my knowledge of
this in my magazine by showing clearly the empowered woman theory with tweaks
of the male gaze theory to fit into the genre just a little more.
Progress report
After doing my initial research with my group we have discovered the typical iconography features for R&B and found out what we like and don't like about R&B magazines that have been previously done by both professionals and students. We have discovered that the general colour palette is black, white, grey and red and that the font is serif done simply and spread apart. These ideas we would like to take forward I think with maybe the odd exception and we would also like to take forward the ideas from images and how women are presented when taking in consideration photography for our work. The ideas for hitting our target audience that I have gathered from analysis are abbreviations and short simple words to appeal to the elder adolescents. Looking at other people's work has inspired and excited me to get cracking on my own.
Sunday, 23 October 2016
Monday, 10 October 2016
Change of heart
There has been a change of heart after looking at the work load and so I have decided to go in a group with Oliver Wain and Alex Bowles. We have compromised with a genre and so we have merged their original genre of rap and my Urban genre to create an R&B magazine. Our target audience is still the same (elder teens-early 20's) and the same sort of magazines such as vibe inspire us.
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Response to brief
I have decided to work on a print edition of a music magazine for my AS coursework because I enjoy reading magazines myself. I will be doing this on my own and will follow the following spec for it;
"Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate."
My initial ideas for my music magazine are to go with an Urban genre as it appeals to me and I think I would be able to do that genre best. My target audience I think will be for the elder teenage into early 20's as I think this genre of music appeals to that age group the best. I think the audience would still be in education probably and from different cultural backgrounds. Magazines such as 'Uptown', 'XXL' and 'Vibe' have the young R&B Urban appeal to it that I'd like in my music magazine. I will research into these magazines to get inspiration.
"Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate."
My initial ideas for my music magazine are to go with an Urban genre as it appeals to me and I think I would be able to do that genre best. My target audience I think will be for the elder teenage into early 20's as I think this genre of music appeals to that age group the best. I think the audience would still be in education probably and from different cultural backgrounds. Magazines such as 'Uptown', 'XXL' and 'Vibe' have the young R&B Urban appeal to it that I'd like in my music magazine. I will research into these magazines to get inspiration.
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