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(63) But wait...there's more!! Creative Critical Reflection #1

 


The end is nigh. Welcome back guys, well now that we've finished our magazine, let's reflect on this journey! So this is one of four critical reflections that I will be doing! Within each of these I will be answering and reflecting on a question about our magazine.

So for today,
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

    Well to answer the first part of this question, let me put it simply, my magazine consists of all the basic conventions of a magazine. It includes a masthead, a main image, cover lines, a date line, a barcode, and a price. Throughout the production process of this magazine I was inspired by many different magazines like Men's Journal and Playboy Magazine.


In the cover page, the first thing you notice is my masthead. The masthead is the title of a magazine located at the top of the cover page. I used font hierarchy to determine what I wanted the viewer to see first. I called the magazine Menluv and put Men's Fashion as the title to show what it's about, the image of our model Tyrone also helps to convey that point as he is a man, with fashion of course. I've also used contrasting colors to further grab a viewers attention and I've taken the liberty of editing my background image to fit the red and blue color theme.


Next is the table of contents, and for this I have taken design choices to make it as simple as possible. Once again I've used contrast and font size to allow readers to better distinguish between text elements and I've added some images that relate to men's fashion. Overall I did my best to make the table of contents as clear and concise as possible as the purpose of this page is to be informational and guide the reader to particular parts of the magazine.


Finally, we have my double page spread. Now this part is truly a culmination of design and simplicity working perfectly together. What I've done here is make all the images black and white and made most of the text colored, this is to add emphasis to the text. Because if the images were colored I felt I would be taking away focus from the feature story, there is symbolism in the text colors too. I used red to emphasize energetic phrases, blue to emphasize Tyrone and manly phrases, and I used purple to emphasize fashion related words and phrases.

Now to answer how my magazine represents social groups or issues. Well if you played close attention you would've noticed all my background images are as some would say, ghetto areas. This was done on purpose to create a deeper meaning, and that meaning is that no matter who you are, or where your from, you can still enjoy men's fashion. Besides that you may also notice how colorful my magazine is and how it might even seem a little silly, well this is because I also wanted to appeal to younger audiences as well and to captivate a viewers attention. In truth my magazine is meant to appeal to men of all ages and all backgrounds, whether they grew up with hard or easy life, it is meant to unite men with fashion. This magazine helps men feel better about themselves regardless of their age or background.

Link to Prezi Presentation:
https://prezi.com/view/bMOYDwefI3l236R6hOxK/

Anyways guys, that's it for today, next time we'll answer a different question, until then-
Thanks for Reading!

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