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Evaluation Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

 Below is the link to my YouTube video:


https://youtu.be/dDTCcIevXUc  


Transcript

Hello. My name is Kelly Lopez, and I will be answering compulsory question 1. The question is "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?" Throughout my magazine I incorporated images such as the cover image on the cover page. I had mastheads, a barcode, subheadings, a tagline, an issue number, a date, columns, editor information, and even color schemes. I maintained the color scheme throughout the cover page, the contents page, and the double page spread. I kept my fonts the same for my cover page as opposed to using alternating ones throughout. I felt that this helped make my cover more aesthetically pleasing and more simplistic. I tried to ensure that any images featured were always the center of the attention in the design. In one way or another everything else on the page ensured that the readers stayed captivated and that they focused on the main image in my magazine cover; I featured a young Afro Latina female rapper. I feel that oftentimes magazines and the media overall they overwhelmingly promote male artists and especially in the hip hop industry. So, I wanted to ensure that this was not the case for my magazine. So in having a young woman featured on the article and throughout my entire magazine, I am working to end such a neglect towards women in rap, and I feel that this was a way of me playing my part in it, as it is it is already challenging to succeed in an industry that is so dominated by men. I think - I strongly believe that media creators, and designers, and people who do photography I think that they play an essential role in ending this problem because we all have the power to highlight successful women in the industry. And I feel that my - my magazine successfully did this. In addition, my product is inclusive of the black community which is oftentimes overlooked by various media outlets overall not just in rap - but just overall in different magazines. I think that there's lots of work left to do to ensure that underrepresented rappers and singers and people from these under - underrepresented communities get the attention and the praise that they deserve. I felt that my magazine design was only a small part to it.

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