EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In what ways does your media product, use, develop or challenge forms and conventions?

For my media product, i had to create a magazine of my chosen genre. My music magazine genre is a gospel; I chose to do a gospel music magazine because there is not many gospel music magazines that has been distributed in the magazine industry. I think this is because magazine distribution companies feel that not many people will purchase gospel magazines because of the norm, which is that gospel music is for older people but not many older people read magazines.Throughout my magazine production, I made sure that my magazine's conventions relate to the genre. There are three modern gospel artists featured in my music magazine, I did this because I wanted to demonstrate that there are many different styles of music within the gospel world. The images in my magazine also relate to its genre. Through the costume worn by the model in my magazine, the audience will be able to infer that the genre is gospel as she is wearing clothes that look elegant and not so revealing. In addition, through reading the masthead on the cover page of my magazine, my target audience is likely to infer that it is a gospel magazine as it says, “The living word”. I tried to give as many hints as possible for the audience to insinuate that it is a gospel magazine as soon as they view it.

 I chose to do a modern gospel magazine because I knew that it would attract and appeal to a younger adult/ teenage audience. My music magazine challenged the forms of conventions as I used colours (yellow, green and red) that are not usually utilised on magazines. I did this is because I wanted my magazine to stand out from all the other magazines but also look appealing. Moreover, I wanted to challenge the forms of conventions because I felt that magazine distributions want to publish something new and different which will stand out as many more people will purchase it and my magazine does not follow the norm of other magazines e.g. my masthead is on the side of the front cover instead of the top centre. 

MAGAZINE PARENT COMPANIES

Parent Companies

I would like my magazine to be part of the Hearst Company because it publishes many similar magazines to mine. For example, ‘Bazaar’ is a magazine that is being distributed by the Hearst Company. My magazine is similar to ‘Bazaar’ magazines they all have only one image on the main cover and so does mine. I think this is so the audience do not get confused when they pick up a magazine distributed from the Hearst Company, as they are all elegant and classy. Another reason why I think my magazine would be similar to Bazaar magazines is because most of their main images are mid shots and my main image will be a mid-shot. Bazaar magazines are similar to how I would like my magazine to look because all the models presented on ‘Bazaar’ magazines are elegant and classy and the model that would be on my magazine looks classy and el

egant.  Another reason why I have chosen to use this parent company for my magazine is that they already have over 22million people that purchase their magazine monthly, and I think their audience would also purchase my music magazine because they trust the Hearst Company’s judgement in publishing magazines.  In addition, if this company produces my magazine, it is more likely to become successful because of their reputation as they have a wide audience appeal.

PRE-PRODUCTION PAPER WORK

Location recce form

Where or what location are you planning to shoot your music magazine? I would like to shoot my music magazine outside my church because the genre of my music magazine is gospel. I want the audience to know the genre of my music magazine as soon as they pick it up.

 

Directions to get there? Bus: 257 from Walthamstow to Stratford. The stop is Leytonstone fire station.

What do you like about it? I like the location I have chosen because it would match the genre of my music magazine, and this will immediately infer that it is a gospel magazine. The scenery of my magazine shoot is natural and this will reassure the audience that my magazine is not like any other magazine, as I would not edit the scenery.

What problems might you encounter with it? The only problem I might encounter with is, people from the church finding it disrespectful to utilize the church scenery for a photo shoot.

How do you plan to overcome them? I would simply inform them about my media production which is to create a music magazine. I would also inform them that I needed to take pictures in front of a church, as the genre of my music magazine is gospel.

How is your location relevant to your music magazine/artist? The genre of my music magazine is gospel and the location I have chosen for the shoot is church. All the artists that I would like to be featured in my music magazine are gospel artists

How does your location relate to the (sub-genre) music genre? There are many different genres within gospel, I would like to have rap, and urban contemporary gospel artists included in my music magazine. The location I have chosen relates the sub-genres (rap and urban contemporary gospel) as it is modern church and the gospel music is portrayed in many different ways.

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QUESTIONNAIRE FINDINGS

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CONTENTS PAGE ANALYSIS

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COVER PAGE CODES AND CONVENTIONS

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DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD TEXT

Hi everyone, welcome back to another exclusive interview with ‘Sing Dance Worship’. Joining us today is the most famous Christian rapper, he’s an actor, he’s a song writer, he’s a producer, and he is LECRAE.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: Thank you for joining us today Lecrae, it is such an honour to have you here.

LECRAE: NO thank you for having me here, I am so excited.

SIND DANCE WORSHIP: before we begin, we would all like to know about you, about Lecrae.

LECRAE: I am Lecrae Devaughn Moore, ermm I am a hip-hop artist and I love making music that inspires people to do the best they can. I am a Christian and my faith plays an important part to my music. I never promote drugs, sex and violence in my music because I have been there and I now know that there is a lot more things to life than those three dangerous things.

SING DANCE WOSHIP: I love that because there is not many artists out there that do what you do man, so it’s amazing to know that not everyone thinks about sex, drugs and violence.

LECRAE: Yeah, I mean many young people are lost and trying to find something that can comfort them and they usually rely on sex, drugs and alcohol, but if they have someone telling them that they don’t need sex, drugs and alcohol to get through life especially through sings because that’s what are generation is in to. Music, through music we can save many lost people.

SING DANCE WORSHIP:  that’s really good man, tell us a bit more about your big break

LECRAE: My big break. I would say my big break was when I was 25 years old, I released my first album but I didn’t expect to be so popular, of course I was hoping it was popular but I wasn’t expecting it. When I found out that my album made it on to the billboard and reached no. 29, I went down on my keens and worshiped god because without him nothing will be possible.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: so Lecrae we heard that you do not like the term ‘Christian rapper’ and you do not want people to know you as a Christian rapper. Tell us, why does it bother you so much?

LECRAE: It is not that I don’t like being labelled as a Christian rapper. I prefer to be labelled as a hip-hop artist. There’s nothing wrong with being a Christian rapper because I’m a Christian so I enjoy Christian music but as soon as you’re labelled a Christian rapper, atomically people thing that you’re music is only for Christians, and other people might not even listen to my music because it’s ‘Christian music’ and they might automatically think that it’s not good music. I am trying to win non-Christians as well as Christians because I want to inspire everyone to be better.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: what advice would you give to people that are always negative?

LECRAE: My thing is just I always tell people before you complain, be grateful you got breath to complain with, just appreciate the little things. Just the small blessings that you just have. You woke up, you can walk and you are alive. We lost people last year, so just all those little things.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: that is great man, because everyone needs someone to bring them up and you are one of the good ones man, always trying to make people happy. It is good because there is many people out there that look up to you so you keep up the good work. Well it was a pleasure having you here today and I hope you keep making your way up

LECRAE: It was a pleasure to be here and I will never give up on my dreams man.