Evaluating magazine image
- 1. Jan Labro Representation of my media product In my original photography, I asked fellow students to take pictures of me in which I used for my magazine. I was wearing outgoing clothes such as black skinny jeans, a black blazer/cardigan and a green patterned shirt along with black canvas shoes. For my front cover of the magazine, I posed with my hands in my back pocket looking towards my left. This photo was taken in a classroom in which they places a large, plain material across one side of a wall in which I stood in front of to have photos taken. My magazine represents gender and age throughout the image. The image on the right is final product after I edited it on Adobe Photoshop. The image shows a young male posing as such of a laid- back, chilling and cool pose. The male is a very confident and independent looking person in which shows power in the magazine. These are what a lot of the people would look up to and would what to be in their life. The pose of him looking up could mean that he is still looking to be at the top and how he isn’t looking at the camera shows that he may not care much about the publicity. The image is represented to seem true as it is hitting conventions of how hip hop/rap male are represented in the magazines, as he is a well-built looking man with exceptional posture, he shows great confidence in which people love about people, he is also wearing a semi-formal attire in which the majority of male, in the magazine front cover, wear. However he breaks some conventionsas he is wearing skinny jeans in which is not what standard male artists wear for magazine front cover. My representation is targeted at male, roughly 16 – 25 years old, I know this simply because the model represents how the majority of the male population would like to look like in which they would look up to the model 1
- 2. Jan Labro and probably aim to be just like him. This follows the conventions of the Antonio Gramsci’s theory of Hegemony. Hip hop/Rap is a genre mostly listened to by young to 25+ years old male in which the size of this population is massive and is probably still increasing, a male audience is the dominant group of people in the audience in which I am aiming my magazine towards them. This image represents the interest of those men in which is potentially money, cars and attractive female. 2