Evaluation Question 6) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Front Cover

1.      One way in which my media product uses a convention of a real media product is that on the front page I have included an image of one defined model. This is a common feature of real media products as most magazines include an image of one person on the front to attract the audience into reading the magazine as the model is big and bold attracting them to read it.

2.      I have also looked closely at my researched real magazine and I have taken ideas from this front cover, I have used their colour scheme as I believe this convention from this magazine looks good for the music genre I am aiming at. I took ideas from my research as it allows me to directly use different conventions from real media products as I have went off the design and layout of this real media product

3.      I have also not used any hanging widows and made sure these were all illuminated as this is a media convention which is avoided at all costs because it is a poor layout design. I believe on the front cover I have used complimentary colours as I have included a black and white background and used bright blue and red colours against it allowing these words to be easily seen and stand out again the background.

4.      My font choice was because it was a sans serif font which is easier to read than a serif font and because of my target audience this was more appropriate to be readable by my target audience.

Contents page

1.      On the contents page I also applied a lot of my research to the creation of my contents page. The colour scheme is again appropriate for the magazine and follows the colour scheme of the front page which is a media convention from real media products as they tend to follow the same colour scheme the whole way through.

2.      The red on the contents page compliments the red of the magazine logo which is a convention from real media products as they mostly include a logo of their magazine which is included in the contents page to allow the magazine to continue to be seen as from the company.

3.      I have included a main image on the contents page but also a second image which is related to an article inside the magazine, this is a form which is used in a real media product as several images are commonly used on the contents page to present different articles and to attract the reader to read on in the magazine and attracts them to read that article.

4.      I have not included much informative writing about each article on the contents page as when looking at real media products they do not give away too much on the contents page as they want readers to read on.

5.      I also used the idea from real media products to separate the different topics in the contents page as this allows the articles to be easy to follow and it allows readers to know where to go for what they are interested in reading about.

6.      Another feature which is used by all media magazine products in the numbers of each page and article being included so the magazine is easy to follow as each page is easy to find.

Double Page Spread

1.      On the double page spread I made sure that I was spacing the text similar to the real media product I had used in my research. I ensured I kept to this idea as I spaced the lettering in the same way as the real media product as I believe this gives my magazine the correct appearance. It also allows the magazine to be easily read and understood because the words are easy to read.

2.      I have also used the idea of having the main article questions in a different colour and case than the main body text answers as this follows the conventions of real media products as it allows the questions and answers to be easily separated. When looking at magazines from my research they use this feature a lot and the feature for the question being a different colour font than the main article/answers so I included this feature in my magazine.

3.      Another feature I included which is a feature used in real media production is the inclusion of the authors of the photographs and words used for my article; this is so everyone involved in creating the magazine is credited.

4.      I also used the media convention of page numbers in the corner of both pages of the double page spread as this is a feature used by all media magazine products.

5.      Another convention from real media products which I have applied to my work is the title of the article being spread across both pages of the double page spread.

6.      I have also included the feature of a snippet of information in small white writing in the corner which is attached to the male model in the image as this information is to do with him.