Evaluation task 1

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

Within my magazine i used many conventions from existing music magazines to create a realistic, believable looking music magazine.  For example  I created a logo to fit the title , I used a rainbow picture as my logo.This follows Forms of most media magazines.

I used the same font for the title magazine as ‘Vogue’ magazine does to create a more professional look, However underneath this I added a tag line to challenge the form of a professional magazine to make it look more fun than serious. I also did this by making the writing bigger and choosing to write in a less formal style when writing the interview and contents page. Like a existing magazine I carried on the theme of the page heading through to the contents page to create a more professional look.

I also feel that the images taken for the magazine conform with the style of the more modern exisiting music magazines. I took natural un-posed pictures whilst chatting for the interview pictures to make it seem as if it was more real and posed pictures for the front cover to achieve eye contact with audience to get a more effective picture to grab attention of audience and create emotion toward the magazine because of the picture style.

I chose to use props within my pictures, I used drum sticks to  emphasise the musical background ,a chair to act as if in an interview and also a bean bag to create a relaxed feel to the photos. This I think challenges the form of existing magazines as they usually have very posed pictures with busy backgrounds where as I went for plain backgrounds to seem more chilled creating stronger relations to my target audience.

 My aim for the mise-en-scene of the pictures were to act as natural as possible for example natural hand gestures, smiling and laughter as this way I felt the emphasis of the laid back nature of the magazine  would shine through from the pages which I think it  did successfully.

The music genre was pop/rock which seems to be the most commercial and this is displayed throughout the magazine for example, conforming with existing magazines in the contents page displaying a variety of different contents relating to different styles of music and pictures on the front cover of both drum sticks and headphones replicating the two different music styles coming together.

I aimed to layout my magazine in a ‘scrap book’ type of style. This is more apparent on the double page spread as the pictures are angled differently and makes it look less formal and more personal between the artist and reader. This is not seen often in existing music magazines.

The model I chose to be in the pictures for this magazine would conform with models from other magazines as she is young, like the target audience making her and the magazine more relatable and attractive, which encourages readers to warm to the interview and the magazine itself.