Evaluation question 1

Evaluation Questions # 1

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

To help me design my own magazine I did a research on the other magazines to give me an idea of how things would be done. I took some of the conventions from other magazines and put them in my front cover. The front cover of my magazine includes a catchy title that could grab the audiences attention. It then consists a range of cover lines which will give the audience a taste of what’s inside. My cover is quite bright which can be eye catching so the audience spots my magazine from across the room. I like my masthead not only due to the fact it is unique and lures in the readers it is both conventional and unconventional of a typical music magazine, it combines both of these aspects to develop a product which is effective and more impressive. 

My magazine challenges the regular music magazine like VIBE and XXL! both mainly focus on Hip-Hop in their magazine. I have decided to work on Hip-Hop as well because I did a questionnaire for my target audience and found these were the favorite or most liked music genres. There were less number of magazines that focused on Hip-Hop so I thought that my magazine would stand out from others. My front cover perfectly matches Hip-Hop genre as my background, font and model all were particularly designed for a funky look.

The props I included on the model were. The props I used were a cap, clothes that represents a Hip-Hop look and a bag. This follows the codes and conventions of magazines as I am trying to create a Hip-Hop music magazine and they tend to use colorful clothing or either really bright. The black, blue, white and red font color emphasizes the masthead name SICK BEAT and it suggests the genre that is being portrayed and therefore the codes and conventions are being developed and followed.

The contents page uses all the codes and conventions of a music magazine. The images are located typically by the side and beneath of the title ‘contents’ with a short brief of what the image is discussing. The image included is based on the double page spread, the layout of the contents page is effective and easily accessible with the page numbers making it simple to read. It has a effective and uniformed layout.