What I Learnt in Lesson Today

Today in my media lesson with Miss Silva, we analysed as a class with looking at the mark scheme at two previous front cover, context page and double page spreads that was done by students in previous years. We looked at one good piece of work and one bad piece of work.

What I learned from this lesson is that what should and should not be included on my front cover, contents page and double page spread which are:

Organising a Focus Group

For qualitative research, I arranged a focus group to answer the questions I came up with, according to analysing a Hip Hop/R'n'B magazine. By this it would show me different views from different people so I would know what is the most common or similar answers. From similar answers, this would teach me that I would have to work on what are the audiences likea and dislikes towards planning my music Hip Hop magazine.

Market Research

For my first type of market research, I created a questionnaire on a website called www.surverymonkey.com. Why I thought creating a questionnaire would help me is because since I would be designing the questions for people to answer, It would help me know what people generally think what would be good on and in a Hip Hop or R'n'B magazine. This would give me a brief idea of what is expected by the audience and from the answers I would receive, I would work on from that.


Here are the questions I designed on my questionnaire:

Now I would be asking people to answer my questionnaire and see what type of results I end up with. 

I have been doing research on up coming artists and came across Shide Boss. He is the new and up coming male artist which I hope to be researching about for my music magazine, as he is partly of Hip Hop genre but also R'n'B at the same time.

I thought, by using social networking sites such as twitter, I can possibly get in contact with him and I tweeted him what is shown below:

Here is what his official twitter page looks like:

Chosen sub-genre :)

My final sub-genre I have chose to base my music magazine on his Hip Hop mixed with R'n'B! Why I have chosen Hip Hop mixed with R'n'B is because it is very common and popular genre many people listen to, maybe on a daily basis. Also while I am researching about the genre, it would give me further knowledge on it that I would have not know about the genre itself before. In other words it would give me more insight on the genre. 

Picture Editing

I was playing around with picture editing on a website called befunky.com and came across some good edits. I chose a random picture of the artist Nicole Scherzinger and started playing around. Here is what I came up with which is shown below. The first picture is original picture I started from. 

Click on image to show original size 

By doing this, this gave me ideas of how I would like my front cover picture to be like with different types of edits and which one looks more effective. Also, since I am thinking of basing my magazine on the genre Hip Hop, I think by from the research I have seen images taken of other famous Hip Hop artists, most of their images are either photoshoped or edited to show the intensity of the picture.