Evaluation

Mia Harrison

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

Magazine cover

Within my magazine I have taken inspiration from existing media content with indie genre conventions to help create my magazine. I looked into not only existing indie magazines but indie artists and the type of magazines they appear on. For example Lana Del Rey appeared on a popular magazine, Billboard. From this I have taken the natural surrounding background idea and applied it to my front cover in a way which suits my house style which I wanted to create for the magazine.

I also looked at vogue, which is a fashion magazine, however included the artist, Lana Del Rey. From this cover I took and used this for my font and the positioning of the masthead.

From the magazine ‘Carmen’ I liked the look of a mast head being at the bottom of the cover and not conventionally at the side or under the masthead. I look this and applied it to my magazine

The brick wall which is seen on my cover makes the image look less intentional and more rustic which is what I wanted to achieve.

Magazine cover: use, develop and challenge

I have used a banner to put a cover line story from my magazine in. This makes it more interesting than just having it on the background, as well as bringing attention to it.

I have chosen to have the color yellow featured on the cover of my magazine. I think this stands out from the neutral background and the white which I have also used. This stands out without becoming to pop and keeps in with my genre.

I decided to use a natural back ground, like this fashion magazine on the left. Even though this is a fashion magazine the artist which is featured comes under the indie genre, this giving the cover conventions of the genre. I did this by using a brick wall behind my feature cover photo. This makes the image look less posed and looks more natural, which appeals to an indie audience.

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

I creating a house style by adding a banner to my contents page and using the color yellow.

The boarder around the page and the numbers I used from the contents page above. I felt this made the information stand out instead of it being on the background image.

On the magazine to the left the main image used is used as the background image, from this I took inspiration and used one of my images from my contents as my back ground. The image which I used there was a rural/ natural feel to the image again, like my cover. Unlike the image on the right where the models are leaning against a wall.

My contents page aspires to the house style of my magazine which was set by the cover. My cover has used different aspects from a wide range of magazines, however I have changed and developed them so that they suit my magazines house style and genre. For example the use of a image as the back ground.

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

Double page spread

The use of darker colors behind the text I got from the contents page to the left. I felt like this suited and complimented the artist, as he is older and within the indie umbrella. I have also used the positioning of the main image within my double page spread. I have placed it in the bottom left hand corner (image placed on left side).

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developChallenge

From this magazine I took the use of boxes around the text and developed it so it would be different and fit in with my magazines house style. I decided to outline some of the text with a lighter grey, making the page more interesting to look at.

From this magazine I like how they have used a feature image to fill one side of the A3. I was going to do this with the feature image shown in the bottom right hand corner, however I felt I needed to add more text and information within the article so I made my image smaller. To make it more interesting, however, I added a faded copy behind the original image to make it look like a shadow.