Evaluation Question 1

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

I think my product uses quite a few conventions of a real media product. one of them is the way i have layed out the different pages. on the front cover i have looked closely at how different magazines layout there magazine, i decided i wanted to look at magazines with different genre of music so i when i came to put my ideas down i would have a wide variety of ideas and know what different genres would look like. i could also have mixed different magazines in together. i did the simple things you would expect like the issue number, date and bar code to obviously give it a sense of realism and make it look more professional. i  made the title stand out from the rest of the text by adding a glow around the edges so it would be noticable and look different from the rest. i think i could have definatley added more to it like banners across the bottom and top saying whats inside or something to get the audience interested just by looking at. this would have been done in a bold colour to make it stand out. i could also add smaller picture across the bottom maybe that involve different articles. i think the contents came out well, i tried to make it look a lot more organised than the front cover so it looked smarter and was easy to read. i saw that a lot of contents pages were very busy and had a lot of photos and writing but i wanted too try and stay away from that and make it more simple. i think the banner was a nice factor of the contents, this is one thing i wanted to carry across from other magazines as it instantly lets you know what is being listed. when listing the pages i made them into different colours, one so you can identify what that page has on it and the other a small description about it. i dont think my contents had as many connotations as it could have but i needed to to make it simpler. the double page, i thought, had quite a few different connotations  the main image as the artist in which the article was about, this was easy enough to get and edit. the title was big and i thought drew attention to the page because it was in a different font than the rest so when you see it you realize its different and will focus on the page more. i wanted to add and introduction as i realized most magazines did this to start there article, it was easy to put in it was just thinking of what to write is what i struggled with. i added small things like the page number which i thought was important to give the magazine a sense of realism. i also added the 'B' of my logo at the end of the article to show it was over. coming up with questions and answers were quite hard as i
wouldn't really know the answers but i gave it a go and i think i came out alright. i chose different colours for the question and answers so it would look more professional and give and show were the question starts