MEDIA PREZI

media presentation on Prezi

Social groups

The way my magazine represented a particular social group was by the content it included. An example of this would be things such as the Artist who were featured in my magazine and also the artist whose name may have come up. The reason this represented a specific social group is because Grime is not really an internationally recognised Genre of music, so by featuring underground Grime artist in my magazine it is almost as if they get to talk out on behalf of Grime fans and get their views heard by many.

Improvement with technology

From doing this task I have learnt a lot of skills that will be useful in the future and that will help improve my understanding of technology. One of the things I learnt was how to take quality pictures. I know this might sound like an easy task but there is a lot more to it then you think and is actually a skill you can learn threw practise. Another bit of technology I have learnt about through this task was how to use Photoshop software. This is a thing I am proud of as I can now use the software properly and reckon in the future this could be used to create other things. Overall I am happy with myself learning about these things because they are useful skills to have even outside of media and could help me in my later life.

The link between uk grime and American hip-hop

When i was looking at grime videos I also found  out that Grime artist do alot of covers of American Hip-hop tracks, so I automatically knew there was a strong link between Grime and Hip-hop music. I also saw that this was very popular amongst the underground Grime culture.

AMERICAN VERSION

UK COVER VERSION

RESEARCH 2

After looking at some examples of magazines I still didn’t feel as if I knew enough about grime to create a magazine on it so I expanded my research and went on YouTube. The reason I done this was so I could get an understanding of Grime as a genre and understand the age groups that listen to this type of music. After I looked through a couple of Grime videos it became obvious to me that it was a urban/street Uk thing and that it was mostly listen to by youth. Because of these findings I decided I was going to give my magazine a street theme and aim it at teenagershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7W8Q-g9Lg&safe=active. << This is one of the examples i came across threw this process

RESEARCH 1

 
For my media coursework i was set the task of creating a brief magazine of any music genre of my choice. During this process I had to do before hand research and get an idea of what I waas actually getting my self into. Before I even thought of jumping straight on to Photoshop I looked on Google to see examples of well known Grime magazines and during this procedure I came across Flavour. Flavour is a great example of the type of magazine I would be doing as it is a magazine for Uk Grime and also has the same type of Codes and Conventions I would like to have included in mine. 

contents

My contents page was also hard to create as I didn’t think my flat pan idea was a good layout to use. To overcome this problem I then went on to Google to see examples and found one that I liked.The reason I liked this one over my flat plan design is because it looked more professional and had the same codes and conventions you would expect to see in a grime magazine. Another issue I had to overcome while doing my contents page was making it match with my front cover in terms of colour scheme and fonts. To do this I constantly looked at my front cover while creating my contents page and copied over the same fonts from my front cover.