Evaluation Question 1 DONE

Question 1 In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

The Main conventions of a Music Magazine bull Extremely strong and eye catching imagesbull Bright strong eye catching coloursbull Colour co-coordinatedbull Fairly busy front coverbull Bold textbull Often a picture of an artistcelebrityband etcbull Mastheadbull Taglinesbull Left thirdbull Cover linesbull Bar codesbull Image bleed bull Eye catching cover linesbull Splashes

Magazines I first looked at on the internet Front Covers Contents Page and Double Page spread

Within my Music Magazine I have stuck to the guidelines criteria that most main music magazines use or stick by On my front cover and throughout my magazine I have used similar conventions to other music magazines For example my Masthead is on the left side (left third) at the top so that when it is on a shelf it is the first thing you read It is also clear and bold enough to read Like all music magazines the logo would be noticed and remembered I have also used the same colours on my front cover as Q magazine This is because the big red box stands out a lot with the white writing on top However I had to make my box smaller because the title of my magazine is a word not just one letter

I have also used a central image like Q magazine It is important that the central image is the main story of my magazine The central image on the front page also determines what the genre of what the magazine is going to be for example on my front cover the image is of a strong bold woman who looks very serious about her RampB music My central image is quite close up which I found similar to typical music magazines I decided to copy how other magazines shot their image because it gave a stronger more mature look to my magazine I came to the discovery during my research that most but not all pictures in music magazines were usually taken as a mid-shot or a long-shot

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I also kept to a particular colour scheme like a standard music magazine would Particularly NME magazine and Q These colour schemes both interested me because they looked mature and professional Therefore I decided to use the Red White and Black theme on mine The red was chosen because it was a bright and bold colour that can stand out when used with black and white

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The front cover of Q magazine was the magazine

layout I copied and used for my front page Qmagazine follows the same kind of stylethroughout each issue of the magazine The

style follows the same rule that the Masthead is

always in the top left hand corner of the cover The masthead is always the Q logo and is always redand white There is a banner at the top of the Cover stating that Q is lsquoThe UKrsquos Biggest Music Magazinersquo From my own knowledge andresearch I can say that this true Q is the best magazine for music fans This particular issue of magazine has Cheryl Cole as the Primary Image This is telling me that there is going to

be a big article or interview with Cheryl Cole There

are also various small cover lines which in my

opinionget the buyerreader interested in this issue of

Q The Primary image of Cheryl Cole would

also be a very good selling point because Cheryl Coleis a very famous pop artist so many readers would beinterested in what the article is about It is a very busy yet understandable front page

When I started to plan out my magazine I thought

it would be easier to copy another leading magazines layout so that I have an idea of what

it would look like and what size I should make

things On my front cover I kept a big and bold

mastheadbecause it looked sophisticated and mature The convention that I have challenged is the cover lines on my magazine cover For example in Q magazine I thought they had to many cover

lines so I moved mine to the left third so that it was

not covering the main image and so that the white and red writing was clear on the black background When researching RampB and evenHip Hop music magazines I found that the cover lines looked quite packed and jumbled up although it showed the magazine contained a lot it proved to be quite confusing to read So for

my magazine I decided to change the positioning of the cover lines and the amount I wrote to make it look more mature and aesthetically appealing wanted it to look more mature so that it wasnrsquotLike your typical RampB magazine this was unique

Again when it came to the layout of my contents page I slightly copied Qrsquos Contents page The masthead for this magazines contents page is more conventional but fits in very well with Qrsquos smart theme which readers have come toexpect and will activly look out for It then has a tidy column which contains the features listed further within the magazine it has a small heading pointing out that this is the features section a photograph of one of the feature artists and then smartly and orderly listed headings for other features of themagazine Each headingis underlined and has a short description of what it contains below allowing thereaders to find articles that appeal and interest them At the bottom of the contentspage is a picture of music producer italso has several pictures coming out of it of artists featured in other pieces inside the magazine Each picture also includes a large font page number in white on the image so that readers know exactly where to locate it

On my contents page I copied the layout of Qrsquos magazine to see if I liked it and I did As the masthead I thought it was only important to put lsquoContentsrsquo but lsquoTunersquo to so that my target audience were constantly reminded of the brand name The conventions I decided to look at were the headings and short story line and the number of images I decided to reduce the number if listed headings because I felt as though there was already enough going on and enough to read on the contents page By reducing the amount of headings I wrote about changed the amount of images I used For my magazine it was important to put a similar main image on the contents page as well as the front cover so that people recognise their face for the inside story I also included images of people the were other main story lines inside the magazine I gave my contents page an issue number to make it look more professional

This is a double page spread designed my NME The photograph is situated on the left hand side of the page It is a big image that takes up almost half the page of the double-page spread It prevents it from looking too busy with too much writing The effect this has is that it draws the reader in Double page spread has a very simple layout which looks somewhatOld fashioned It also has USA in verylarge writing to fill up the extra space inthe background It is in a pale light fontThe paleness of the font prevents it fromstanding out too much This isnt needed because it already stands out due to thesize of the text The text is also in capitalletters which makes it stand out evenmore This heading implies that the text has something to do about the USA effective look

The title for the double-page spread is lsquoyou got the loversquo This is a very good idea because it is the name of one of Florences songs You got the love This makes the heading look stylish and adds some glamour to the page The font for the text

is a small sized font This allows the article to

fit onto the page It is also black which makes it look professional as it stands out against the white background Also the font is very clear This makes it readable It also makes the double-page spread look professional because if it was in a fancy font the whole page would look overdone

The double page spread is laid out in three columns as this is the average amount of columns music magazines use and I decided to do just an interview and not an article In front of the interview I used a different font for the big lsquoMrsquo this gave my double page spread a professional look as most magazines have a big letter to start off with

I loved NME layout with Florence so I decided to create on just like it using similar conventions and forms I kept the background simple and white this was so I could create a strong and mature main image The image on the left page is of Megan Homer who is the main artist in my magazine

I did edit her picture to make her skin slightly darker and the black deeper so that it stood out to create this strong image I used a big bold text across the back that read UK in the same red that I have used throughout the magazine

I changed it from pink to red because I felt as though it was important to keep the same colour theme On top of the UK read lsquokiss the starsrsquo which is a lyric I had made up that relates to

Megan Homers story line