Evaluation

Q1. 1. In what ways does your media

product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?
My magazine mostly follows the generic conventions of a real
music magazine. Before creating my magazine I researched into
real music magazines and the conventions of them e.g.
masthead, main image, cover lines. When creating my magazine
I followed these conventions. I looked at magazines that where of
a similar music genre and the conventions of them. E.g. the font
styles, the colours that where used, the type of images used, the
models used, the layout of the page, the cover lines, the banners
the pugs, the size of the font.
I followed some of these conventions of a magazine such as using a font that looks
more like graffiti. I used the layout of the cover lines using a list style like on this Rap
up magazine. I followed the convention of putting the barcode in on of the bottom
corners and keeping the price small. I did this because the barcode was not the
centre of attention. Other conventions such as the model I didn’t follow. For similar
genre of magazines like mine they use a black model. I didn’t follow this convention
as I wanted to go against the typical convention and do a story on someone not
stereotypically related to that genre of music.