Media Qroduct Evaluation Question 1

Media Product Evaluation Question 1

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

Magazine Conventions:

• Masthead• Main Image• Music Related Article• Theme relating to genre

Mastheado For my masthead I looked at the Mojo logo. I found that it is

quite a simple logo and either black writing with a white background or the other way around so I used this idea for my own logo except I had three main colours and the logo is not filled in.

o There is also punctuation in the logo and all the letters are the same height and take up the same amount of space which can be seen in my logo as well.

Mojo Logo Spot Logo

Main Imageo The main image of the Mojo edition I have chosen is an image

of a band standing at looking at the camera.o The band takes up most of the page and even overlaps the

masthead to show the importance of the band as they essentially will be selling the magazine by being on the front cover. I have also done this with my magazine as the band on my front cover take up most of the page because they are selling the magazine.

Mojo Main Image Spot Main Image

Music Related Articleo On the front cover of most Mojo magazines the main article

will be the largest text on the page apart from the masthead. The main article will also be linked with the main image on the front cover.

o With my magazine the boldest and biggest text on my page apart from the masthead is the main article title which also links to the main image of the band I have chosen.

Mojo Main Music related article

Spot Main Music related article

Theme Relating to Genreo In the Mojo magazine their main featured artist is ‘The Kings of Leon’ who

are a rock/indie band so on the front cover there are not very many colours bright colours to match the genre of the artist. In a double page spread about a band similar to The Kings of Leon the colour theme is very similar to the front cover of the magazine with darker colours.

o With my magazine my main artist is a rock/indie band so the colours are not very bright on both the front cover and double page spread.

Mojo Double Page Spread

Spot Double Page Spread

Challengeso My magazine challenges regular the regular music magazine

because Mojo does not stick to just one genre of music as it usually changes the genre of music that it focusses on every edition of the magazine but I have decided to focus the magazine on just Indie/Rock as when I conducted my questionnaire for my target audience I found that these two genres were quite popular.

o I also found that not too many magazines solely focus on Indie music so I thought that I would focus of Indie to stand out from other magazines.

o I also found that on front covers of other magazines they would be quite filled up so I decided to make mine quite simplistic and a bit minimalistic too so that it stood out from other magazine front covers.