Evaluation: Question 1( Front cover)

1. Evaluation: Question 1 (Front cover)

2. In What way does your media
product use, develop or
challenge forms and
conventions of real media
products?

3. • My magazine cover follows the typical
conventions of a music magazine. Comparing
my style model to my final products there are
some similar features represented in both.

4. Banner
Across the top of my cover I have created a black banner with white text. This
feature is also represented in my style model however different colours, font type
and font size have been used. My banner shows the names of 3 different bands
which will be shown in the magazine. It is very common for rock magazines to do
this although this is not shown in the style model I have used which is from ‘Q’.
This is more common in magazines such as ‘kerrang.’

5. Masthead
The masthead I have used is similar to my style model as they both use red
boxes with white text However the text is in a different font. I go my font
text from 1001 fonts. I chose this font type because I thought it looked
distressed and had a grunge look to it. ‘Q’ magazine use that name for their
magazine as it stands for queue the music. I named my magazine bold
because it was more innovative.

6. Storylines
I set out my text the same way that my style model did. The storylines are
justified down the margin. Like my style model I have given extra information
about the articles underneath the name. I have put the celebrities name in a
bigger text than the rest as it is the most important information and is more
likely to catch the readers attention. Like the style model I have also separated
each of the articles with boxes to make the cover clearer to read and
understand.

7. Main Image
For the image on the cover of my magazine I have followed the conventions of the
real media product. Naomi Wolfs theory can be shown through my music magazine.
Magazines often show beautiful women on the covers of their magazine to entice
people to buy the magazine. These types of images are shown to attract the
attention of the male audience enticing them to buy and read the magazine and
they attract the attention of the female audience by making them want to aspire to
look like the woman on the cover.

8. Main story line
Above my main story line I have added a quotation of an interesting
line which is in the article. This will encourage the reader to buy the
magazine to read the rest of the article. I put the name of the artist
in the article title and put it in a bigger font to make it stand out
since it is the article on the celebrity in the cover .