Evaluation 1

Evaluation Q1In what ways does your media product use, develop

or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When creating my music magazine, I was working within the genre of rock; more specifically, punk rock. This is one of the biggest genres at the moment and I researched it thoroughly. I looked at current music magazines that feature punk rock music and deconstructed them to find out the conventions of this genre.

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

Prominent masthead

List of bands included

Smaller coverlines

Main article with sub heading

Hook of free things

The front cover of my magazine has a number of similarities to a well known, big selling rock magazine’s; themain image used is of the whole band, with the lead singer standing in front of the rest of the members. Both magazines use hooks and a list of the bands included inside. Both main cover lines are the biggest text on the page, and have a number of smaller cover lines. Both include a barcode as this is an important convention ofa magazine.

Front cover of my magazine: Download Front cover of current popular magazine: Rock Sound

Contents page of my magazine: Download Contents page of current popular magazine: Rock Sound

Editor’s letter

Article categories

Full bandshot

Information about publisher

My magazine’s contents page has a number of similarities to the contents page of Rock Sound; both are laid out in a clear and professional way, both feature the cover band in a full body shot and both include information about the magazine and its web pages. I have also included the conventions of a contents page, incorporating an editorial profile explaining what is in the issue, article titles in sections and the same colour scheme as the front cover.

Rule of thirds: each pointis situated on one of themembers’ faces or eyes,to draw attention to them

Introductoryparagraphs

Quotes fromlead singer

Prose rather thanbroken down text

Outdoor shot

The double page spread for Download has similarities to Rock Sound’s double page spread. They both use quotes and prose rather than broken down text, and have an introductory paragraph to give context to the readers. They both use a full band shot in an outdoor scene, to add atmosphere to the article. Whereas Rock Sound used “The new sound of sacrifice” as a title, Download used a quote from the band; “We want to be as big as You Me At Six”.

I used the forms and conventions to create an accurate depiction of a rock music magazine

I used the forms and conventions to create an accurate depiction of a rock music magazine