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Centre Name: NORBURY MANOR BEC

Centre Number: 14343

Candidate Name: Maneet Bakshi

Candidate Number: 9505

Unit: G321

Final Double Page Spread

Final Contents Page

Final Cover Page

EVALUATION QUESTION 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I used iMovie in order to edit this video making it easy for me to give a visual response to this question.

EVALUATION QUESTION 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

EVALUATION QUESTION 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Above I have used Flickr, please click on the images to see how I attracted/addressed my audience.

EVALUATION QUESTION 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation question 4 from Maneet Singh

EVALUATION QUESTION 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

IPC also publish over 60 brands, these include NME, mbr, Now, Nuts and all the ones shown in the image below however doesn't distribute any R&B music magazine's. IPC is also a well known brand so this will put faith into my magazine, Bass Control should be distributed by IPC because it will give the magazine a far better status, probably an international status. All my artist's are mainstream so they can't really be on a magazine which is distributed by an indie publisher, this will also bring down reputation.

My magazine is priced at RRP £3.95 and as it is a monthly issue you can buy a subscription for £3 per month this will save you 95p per month. That means it will save you £11.40 a year. Also because IPC are a very popular distributor they will have links with franchises such as WH SMITH, BP Petrol Station, Esso, Texaco, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons enabling my product to be sold by pretty much every major magazine selling company within the UK, which will increase both supply and demand for my product.

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

Evaluation Question 2

Please take your time to pause this video in order to read in detail what is presented as it does go through each shot/scene fairly quickly.

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

Deconstruction of my DPS

DPS Feedback

Feedback on my double page spread.

Usama Nadeem:Well done bro, your magazine double page spread looks very good, I like how you challenged certain conventions such as two images on your DPS and followed conventions by having the main image of your artist on the left hand side of your double page spread.

Marwa Salama:Is this what you have created Maneet? I can't believe it at all, no way can I believe it! It's really, really good. I just like how your magazine double page spread is laid out and it is very professional and before I had a problem with the size of your artist on the left as he was too small, but you have rectified it and now it's just really good!

Dawn Gallant:Bass Control, this is the name of your magazine. I like how you linked the logo for your magazine 'Bass C' on the double page spread. Before your space on the bottom right was empty, by putting in another image of your artist , using the angle of gaze I feel as if he is engaging with the audience, I really like it now.

Sana Khurshid:WOW, this is truly wicked, wow Maneet. I like it so, so, so much. I like your interview, it is very interesting, it isn't too long and snappy. It is written in a gripping way, so it's like you have to read it and with the colours to complement it, it isn't just amazing to look at it's wonderful to read as well. I also like your pull quotes, it is very engaging with me, I sat here on your double page spread for 15minutes, it literally is that good.

DPS and how it links to both my cover and contents page

How does my DPS link to both my cover and contents page?

First of all there is a clear link to the contents page because it is in correlation with the page number set.

The colour scheme for all 3 products abide the rule of four and all follow the same colour scheme of red, blue, black and white.

My artist's name 'Deep Meaning' are on all three products. This is to show that my artist is the centre of attention.

The magazine logo is on every single page, this is to show a link between my cover page, contents and DPS.

All 3 products are part of the same music genre (R&B) and look like they are all from the same magazine.

They all follow conventions, for example font styles and colour schemes.
Also the challenge of conventions on each page is here, for example the layout.

The background is white for the DPS, cover page and contents.

Throughout the magazine the name for each artist is in blue this is to follow the conventions for a fluent magazine.

DPS Layout

Double Page Spread Final Flat Plan

This is a computerised version of my final double page spread flat plan, this allowed me to follow it step by step in order to achieve the layout I wanted.

I tried to follow the layout for this double page spread as much as possible with the artist and the pull quote on the left hand side of the DPS. Also on the right hand side of the DPS at the top mine also has my artist's name and then underneath is the interview just like the magazine above.

The image above is on the left hand side of my DPS. I did this to challenge conventions of using the angle of gaze. My artist is abiding by my red, blue, black and white colour scheme. 

As you can see above jay sean and my artist are posing in similar fashion, this means that they are both looking down in an angle this is too ensure that its an R&B pose, although it may sound silly but I felt in order for my artist to become an R&B artist he must pose and have the same 'swag' one would have.

My artist's name is on the top right in blue, this is to follow all the conventions throughout my magazine, this is due to the fact that every artist's name is in blue. On the bottom right there is another pull quote beneath the end of the interview and an image of my artist with the angle of gaze. Why did I do this? I did this because I want my artist to be seen by the reader in two angles. The one on the bottom right is using the angle of gaze this is to engage with the reader.

Artist Interview

Above is The interview between Bass Control magazine and Deep Meaning, this interview will feature on the double page spread on the right hand side of the main image for my article... Deep Meaning is my main artist and he is to feature on my DPS with two images.

Research: Interview writing

Example of an interview with an R&B artist.

This interview is conducted by an English programme such as GMTV this is on the channel of ITV, this is regarding a British found artist 'Jay Sean'. This is an informal interview as it's a casual chat with a few questions and answers thrown in.

DPS Image Decisions

In order to create this I had to use www.powtoon.com , in the video above I discuss how I chose my DPS images.

Double Page Spread Deconstruction and anaylsis

Feedback Form results and analysis

Above are the results from the feedback form I had created on ZOHO, According to the results everyone believes that my contents page looks both professional and fits the genre of R&B.

Feedback on My contents page

My completed contents page

This is my Bass Control music magazine contents page, this is completed and follows my four colour, colour scheme. This scheme consists of red, blue, white and black.

My contents page colour choices.

Bass Control Contents Screenshots.

Above you can see how I produced the screenshots for my magazine contents page, with use of photo shop I created a contents page that I am convinced as the creator that it looks really professional.

Analysing a contents page not of my genre.

First of all this is the magazine which I have purchased. This is a music magazine for the artistic Genre of rock, in fact it's one of the most leading rock magazines in the UK.
There are a list of key features this magazine cover shows to us and I would like to share that same list with you , with my list I shall give a mini explanation if possible.

This magazine cover uses:
-Masthead, the masthead is very well used in order to show to the audience what the magazine is called.
-The angle of gaze, this is when the people on the front page are staring at you(the reader), this may influence people into picking up the magazine as it symbolizes that the magazine is made specifically for you.
-Bleed.
-Barcode, this shows that its a consumers magazine.
-Midshot, to show most of the models and what they are what type of singers they are.
-Pull quote, to grip the reader.
-Feature, to promote.

So Now this brings us to the contents section of our magazine which is heavily dependent on its structure to influence the readers to read more, the contents page are divided into sections, those sections are : News, Feedback, Features, Shots, Lives, Albums, Gig Guide and The All New Rockstar Test!

Also on the top right hand side of the page the word 'Contents' is there and this is appropriate as now the readers know in where to look for their desired page(s) that they would like to read, an added contents page is essential for pretty much any magazine nowadays because frankly it saves so much time for the readers to skim read and its also good for the company.
The contents page as I said is good for the publishing company because it highlights key pages inside the magazine and this draws in the attention of many readers looking for specific articles.

To the left of the contents page there is a wonderful message by the editor describing the magazine in a few short words and this is very critical as he is explaining what he wants to achieve in the magazine and what he has done so far also what is in this current issue.

Also the use of images in this contents page are phenomenal as all the images in this show a little something about what this music magazine is and what exactly it stands for.

Contents Deconstruction of VIBE

Contents Page Image Ideas

Well I have been going through all the pictures I have taken in the past and stumbled across the photos I took at the O2 wireless festival last year with my friend Cherise Currie, I had taken pictures of Trey Songz, Miguel and Snoop Dogg. Now Miguel and Trey Songz both are R&B artists and fit the genre of my magazine.

In the image above is a medium long shot of R&B artist Miguel, however in this image there is a huge camera man in the way.

Above is Snoop Dogg, he does not fit the genre of my magazine so I cannot use him on my contents page.

Now here we have Trey Songz who fits my genre of R&B and is very well known, This image is medium long shot, where you can see the artist with a lot of clarity. This image will be best for my contents page as it meets bass control's colour scheme and also the way how the artist fit's in with the genre and he can be used as a feature because he is such an iconic artist.