Evaluation- Question one

Evaluation Question 1

Cover1. In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The media product that I created was a music magazine that used forms and conventions such as graphics, text, images, text layout, style and format and many more…

Forms and conventions of real music magazine cover

Masthead Headline Selling lines Cover lines Barcode Image of Artist Graphics Colours Dateline and price

I took most of these forms and conventions and added them into my music magazine cover.

The conventions of my music magazine cover include:

Masthead (Title)

Image of artist or band Headline

Website

Selling lines

Barcode & Price

Cover lines

Artist eye contact is a conventional of a music magazine to make the reader feel more personal to the audience.

The font of my masthead is unique and suits my magazine is a creative way. My masthead is half behind the artist which is a common convention as it makes the magazine more aesthetically pleasing.

Selling lines are a good way to attract buyers to buy the magazine. Therefore making more sales and profit.

To show information on what my magazine is all about.

The forms of my music magazine cover include:

Colours: The colours used in my cover are featured throughout the rest of my magazine. The colours are orange/brown, black and white as they contrast very well together and relate well to an acoustic magazine.

Images: I took my own images in a photo-shoot and added them into photoshop to a customization of my liking. It is conventionally positioned central in the page.

Text: I used a range of sizes for the text as larger and bolder text is more engaging and captures the audience attention. The smaller text is mainly more detail of the main titles and headings.

Fonts: I mainly kept my fonts the same throughout my magazine. For my masthead, I used a unique and creative font to stand out attract the audience. The masthead is conventionally positioned at the top of the magazine.

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Forms and Conventions of a real music magazine contents page includes:

Main image

Editors letter

Website

Page numbers

Issue number

Issue date

Magazine logo or name

Page headings

Masthead

The Conventions of a music magazine contents page includes:

Masthead

Editors letter

Selling lines

Quotes

Issue date

Main image

Magazine logo/name

Page headings

Page numbers

The forms of my music magazine cover include:

Colours: I used the same colours as in my cover to keep in with house style that im doing. This then gives a more comfortable and recognizable feel to it.

Images: I only used one main large image for my contents page as I thought it would look better than having a load of small images on it. I put most of my photos on my article as It looked a lot better on there rather than on my contents page.

Text: The text I used related most to the information within the magazine in context but visually linked to the font used in my cover. The text I used is bold and simple so it is easy and clear to read.

Article

Forms and conventions of a real music magazine article includes:

Main image

Captions

Pull quote

Logo

Masthead

Gutters

Sidebar

Body text

Kicker

Drop cap

Journalist credits

DPS title

Conventions of my music magazine article includes:

Masthead

Branding

Main Image

Caption

Quotes

Body text

Gutters

Drop Cap

Forms of my music magazine article includes:

The forms in my article page are similar to both my cover and contents pages. They allow the page to meet the needs of the target audience and appeal to them.

Colours: I used the same colours as in my cover and contents to keep in with the house style. This then gives more of a comfortable and recognizable feel to the magazine and allows the pages to all be connected.

Images: I Used one main image as it is conventional for a music magazine articles. I also have two small other photos underneath the main image as I needed images for my magazine.

Text: The text is the main focus of this page so I used a clear and balck font that allowed it to be readable against the background. The main article text is in a small size font and the masthead title is quite large so that It would stand out and make it bold.