Questionnaire 1(Link)

 Here is my finished questionnaire that i have sent for results:

https://forms.gle/rq8kgjrctU8tN7H98

Once i have sufficient responses i will analyse the data.

Magazine direction?(Primary research planning)

 I was wondering what direction the magazine will take since  in terms of :

• will it be exclusive to the coast?
• will it feature artisans who integrate culture in their art?
• will there be an interview or spotlight section and what will it about about?

These are a few of the questions I aim to do audience research to see what will most interest people i am planning to do a short google forms survey which will have less than 10 questions which will have a varying demographic of answers. a minimum of 20 people would be ideal to draw a result for now.

*Starting my survey.*

Magazine recreation study(Pre-liminary exercise)

 i-D is a popular British based magazine that has BI-monthly issues which focus on art, music, fashion in terms of audience they cater to a younger probably under 30 audience.

for a school media project I chose to recreate this magazine.

The Study

• I wanted to explore closeup potraiture which is why i decided to choose this image in particular
• the cover model is Alexa chung who is known as an internet personality although she does many things
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• Based on similarweb.com site traffic results the majority demographic that interacts with i-D is mostly female and ranges between mostly 18-34 which seems to be a recurring theme in art &culture magazine
• here pop culture or internet culture is more prevelant as compared to the material culture in the arts africa magazine.

The Study Copy Result

• The image shown was taken by me and all the editing was done by myself, in terms of things i found difficult while editing making the lighting similar was not easy as I had to add in artificial shadows to the original image.
• it was relatively easy to find the fonts as most were already pre-installed on adobe photoshop
• overall the result I'm happy with and can take what I learned in terms of positioning and camerawork into making my magazine.

Art & Culture Magazines In Africa

 If we widen the scope, I We looked at the east African based magazine: Tangaza. Now I'd like to look at the magazines in Africa that are based on Art&Culture, although the one I want to discuss is arts Africa magazine which you can find here.

I will be doing specifically an analysis on codes and conventions as well as elements on the covers of the Arts Africa magazine monthly issues.

ISSUE 05 (find here)

 

• The use of colour seems to be the most prominent thing  that is seen first although the masthead is in black and white perhaps to draw attention to the main image.
• there is a barcode present 
• there is a price bar
• there is an issue date present
• the main image seems to have a meaning towards it and has some cultural undertones aswell
• The Masthead is a good looking font for this genre

ISSUE 10 (find here)

• There is clearly a motif being pushed here the conotations are many
• the lack of colour and the use of B&W seems to be an intentional choice perhaps to show how the life and colour has been drained out of the subject in the main image
• the magazine description mentions the "Western Civilisation’s rise to global dominance may be considered as the single most important phenomenon of the past five centuries"
• the use of the money or currency tangled in the hair could connotate the entanglement of African countries in debt toward western and foreign nations this is apart of composition.
• there is an accent colour pink used in the mast head as well as the text on the bottom
• there is the presence of the barcode,price,issue date
• there is the buzzword "US" perhaps demanding a collective call to action
• Use of the Masthead to accentute the accent colour also on the page numbers is nice