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Evaluation: Question One.
In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use,
Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions
Of Real Media Products?

2. + Product Use of Conventions!
‘Front Cover’
At the bottom of my magazine I placed two
text box of ‘puffs’ in which contained
information of the content and prizes to be
found in my magazine, here is usually where
Here I have used a you find the advertisements to catch the eye
conventional feature of a of the customer! I decided that what
music magazine as they customers look for in a magazine is value
Here I thought I would use a usually tend to place a banner and what they are getting for their money,
and well, is it enough? So i therefore decided
conventional central set out for across the top that intrigues
the middle of my magazine, I to give away conventional prizes of a music
the audience to want to read magazine, Cds, Posters, and chance to win
used a picture that stood on the
more, i feel that this banner tour tickets and VIP trips! I also wanted to
right hand side of the front
page and then created an helps my magazine to look use up and coming music artist on my front
anchorage text down the left more like a music magazine cover to intrigue the customer to read more
hand side of the magazine this than a lifestyle magazine, as and buy the magazine!
is a very conventional feature. I having done GCSE media
Also wanted to create a sense and creating a lifestyle
of feeling with the anchorage
magazine it was difficult to
text in the picture, the way she
held herself and looked into steer away from the features
towards her guitar. conventionally used.

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Product Use of Conventions!
‘Contents Page’
Down the right hand side of the
contents page is the conventional place
Down the left hand side of my contents
to put a advertisement banner, you will
page I have placed the contents of my
find it in most music magazines. I
music magazine, this is the
therefore choose to place a
conventional place to put the page
advertisement of an opening of a retail
numbers and headlines to interviews,
shop that also linked to the music
stories etc. As its the first place the
magazine so that it wasn't totally
customer looks and it also makes it
irrelevant and random.
easier for them to see where things are,
Here is a conventional feature of I also used anchorage
every magazine, we place a images to encourage the
paragraph of writing from the customers to read more.
editing chief/team of the magazine
to show our feelings or give an
inspirational speech to give the
customers a good feeling whilst
reading the magazine, although
here in my music magazine I have
decided to give ‘wanna be’
musicians a speech that
encourages them to take a chance
at every opportunity they get, I feel
this in most cases is a must have
conventional feature in every music
magazine.

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Product Use of Conventions!
‘Double Page Spread’
A minor conventional feature of
a music magazine is that there
may be puff photos around the
edge of the double page spread
interview and that between or
around the photos may be
A conventional feature to ‘any’ magazine, anchorage texts that give you a
but in this case a music magazine is that little incite into what is in the
at somewhere on the double page interview itself that should
spread we are to find a introduction and hopefully make you want to
title, conventionally we are to find it at the read more, I used mine on the
top left hand side as it is then the first Every double page spread interview of a right hand side of the main
thing we find to attract our attention. ‘celebrity/musician needs one main feature image to make the readers
and that would be the interview itself, this is aware of the
conventional found on the right hand side of person being
the double page spread after a large image interviewed.
of the main topic be it a band or solo artist. I
have conventionally used a column set up to
neatly present my interview in a simple way
At the top left hand side of the magazine so that it is manageably easy to read.
between a section of the banner you
conventionally find that on a interview
double page spread the topic and in this
case ‘Rhianna black’ is placed between
the banner as a kind of ‘signature’ to
show what is being spoke about.

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Development of Conventions!
‘Front Page’ ‘Contents Page’
‘Double Page Spread’
Here I tried to create a
unconventional feature
with my masthead Within my contents page I decided to use a
although it didn't quite conventional advertisement banner down the On my double page spread I
work out how I had right hand side of my contents page but with a decided that I would use all
twist, conventionally the advertisement within conventions of a music magazine
planned and therefore I this banner do not usually have anything to do double page spread set up, but
had to develop my ideas with the magazine or the company behind it, develop them in a sense of
into better conventional its usually from an outside source for example moving them around and changing
ideas. I felt like my advertising tours, festivals, music channels direction and the feeling or
original idea hadn't and bands etc. So i chose to develop my meaning the give the reader. I
worked out at its best advertisement banner by challenging the gave every last detail a different
content of it and choose to combine my place as to what it should
and so i then decided to magazine company and an advertisement conventionally have but by
change it into a more together by producing and opening retail keeping them made it look
symbolic masthead but statement for a shop of my magazine that different although simple and
with the same meaning. would sell Cd’s DVD's etc. conventional but with difference.

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Challenging Conventions!
‘Front Page’
In my original plan for my front cover I choose to try
and challenge the conventions of a front cover to a
music magazine, I wanted to create a sense of
edge and difference in my title, I therefore planned Conventional images of a music
to place it down the left hand side of my magazine, magazine are usually very rock and
although I found a slight problem with it as when I role genre looking, where as I have
placed on the photo that I had specifically chosen to tried to create a more softer genre of
use, the two did not match quite as I had planned, music within my image, I placed an
the title and the picture sempt to fit to completely overlay on the top of the image that
different genres of music for example the title
created an old looking effect so the
represented a hip hop/rap music convention where
as the picture represented a more acoustic scene. we could tell it was a more softer
So I therefore choose to change my title into a more meaningful type of music, like
symbolic image without changing the behind acoustic.
meaning of it as the magazine still holds
‘FreshBeatz’!
For my front page I tried to keep it very
conventional as my first attempt to try and
challenge the conventions of a music
magazine didn’t work out quite as planned
although I do feel my image and
anchorage texts are a little more
unconventional.

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Challenging Conventions!
‘Contents Page’
It may not be classed as a
unconventional feature of a
contents page although through
my research I never found an
example of a background image
of Cd’s and therefore it may be
Although my contents
seen as an unusual feature, I
page isn't very
used it because I felt it gave a
unconventional I do
meaning to the magazine and
believe that on a
that it was full of good music,
conventional contents
both old and new. It also shows
page there is a little more
parts of the Cd’s that may be a
detail and therefore my
recognisable brand name, and
contents page doesn't
may then intrigue the readers to
particularly challenge
want to know more.
conventions other than
retaining detail about the
headlines placed in the
boxes on the page and
instead replaced with more
images to help give clues.

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Challenging Conventions!
‘Double Page Spread’
Conventions of a double page spread of a
music magazine interview spread, lay quite
simple they conventionally have the picture,
masthead and introductory paragraph at the
left hand side of the music magazine, and the
interview on the right hand side of the
magazine with any anchorage text and images
that may fit into the interview itself. Although I
therefore tried to challenge conventions of a
music magazine by placing my main image,
just right of the centre and put my interview
down the left hand side of the image below my
masthead and introductory paragraph. I also
then placed four images on the right hand edge
of my double page spread as ‘anchorage’
images and placed them with texts that also
stood as ‘anchorage text’ as it links into the
interview and the story behind it.

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Conclusion to my Evaluation!
‘Front Page’ ‘Contents Page’
‘Double Page Spread’
In conclusion to my front cover
and how conventional or
unconventional it may be I found
several different problems all in
I tried to keep my contents page as On the other hand my double page
which lead me to my final piece, it
conventional as possible as I feel that spread I would like to say carries some
made me create something
when a contents page is pushed out of its very unconventional features although
different and out of my comfort
comfort zone it can be a very risky with all the same conventional features
zone and even though that was
business and that it then may become of a music magazine just developed in
difficult I tried my best to find
very difficult in that to understand and a more unconventional manor. I feel my
unconventional features within
read, although I did try to only create double page spread is simple and easy
research and apply them to my
snappy headlines in which to place within to read and understand even though
work, all in all I find my front
my contents page and not to give away elements of it aren't in an expected
cover to be a quite a conventional
too much information about what the conventional place for example the
front covering page and that only
magazine contained and therefore I feel picture. Although I do feel that the left
certain elements of it to be
my contents page is a very successful hand side in the top corner is very
unconventional but not enough to
conventional contents page. conventional as it has a very simple
make the whole thing an
unconventional piece of work as and convention masthead an
much as I had of liked it to be! introductory paragraph and banner.