Media evaluation 1
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The document discusses the media product of a magazine front cover, contents page, and double page spread created by the author. For the front cover, conventions like using limited colors and including free posters were followed, while challenging conventions by using a male image instead of a typical female artist. For the contents page, conventions like including a mini cover image and boxes for sections were followed without major challenges. For the double page spread, conventions like including an interview and direct address to the reader were followed, while challenges included using multiple images instead of one and tilting a pull quote to make it more interesting.
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Media evaluation 1
- 1. In what ways does your media product, use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Media Evaluation Part 1
- 2. My Front Cover My magazine I created in particular my front cover was inspired by Top of the Pops. My front cover followed many conventions. Firstly, in my front cover I decided to not use a white background because in my research I found that this was very common in Pop magazines like my style model Top of the Pops. I found that a white background, didn't look as appealing as a coloured back ground did, I experimented with both so I wasn't making a rational decision. Also, I wanted to use several bright colours which went well with each other to contrast against the background. Usually, magazines stick to 3 colours so I have used black, pink and yellow. I chose to use these 3 colours as they work very well together and stand out to possible buyers of my reader. Another convention I have also followed is that I have included a burst on the front in the middle, in a bright colour so it stands out to the audience, like Top of the Pops I have contrasted colours. Furthermore, similarly to Top of the Pops I have included free posters of male pop stars so that it will in particularly stand out to my target reader. A convention I have challenged is the image. On my front cover, my main image is of a boy and throughout my research I have found that most pop magazine covers are female artists for example Jessie J on Top of the Pops, but I believe that having a boy on the front it will attract more to teenage girls.
- 3. My Contents Again I used Top of the Pops as my inspiration for my contents page. On convention that I followed is a mini picture of the front cover with numbers pointing to each section of the cover. This makes it easier for the reader to find the pages they want. Also, I included boxes for each section, I haven't included as many as some magazines do. I have made the masthead of this page stand out quite a lot so readers can tell what page it is. I used contracting colours like the Top of the Pops one to make it stand out. Furthermore, like this contents page I included pull out photo’s which had numbers next to them. I have used images which I think will attract to the audience more than other features. Similarly to Top of the Pops I have included a photo of a male pop star to attract my audience. In terms of breaking a convention, I don’t think I really did. Many contents pages in several magazines have similar layouts and aspects to it, so I didn’t really think that it was necessary to challenge any major conventions.
- 4. My Double Page Spread My double page spread was inspired by a double page spread from we heart pop and I liked how simple it was. I did an interview for my magazine, and I found that this is quite conventional because the reader and the magazine tend to want to find out more about the pop star. Also, I made sure the model made direct mode of address with the camera and more importantly the reader. Again this is very conventional and similar to my style model which was We heart Pop. The magazine article I looked at used very dull colours so I contrasted that and used very bright ones pink yellow and black which stand out to the reader. I did challenge a couple of conventions. Firstly, many double page spreads have 1 main image but I included 3 in mine as I wanted to have the model doing different poses to intrigue the reader. Also, I tilted the pull quote I used because I wanted to make my double page spread a bit more interesting. This could also appeal more to the reader. I found that this wasn’t very common in pop magazines.