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Evaluation1 - In what ways does your
media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
Front Cover
This was the original cover of my magazine,
with the Rolling Stone theme
clear to see, the white
background, etc.
The dominant image on Rolling Stone is a medium close up, whereas my
main image is a mid-long shot. Both images cover the title, which shows that the titles must be recognisable
otherwise readers wouldn’t know what magazine it is.
Both magazines make use of the header to mention a few of the artists
inside - this broadens the reader appeal.
Both magazines mention the price, issue no. and website just above the top right corner of the
title.
Both magazines use simple colour for the cover lines - Rolling Stone uses white, while Britpop uses black and
red. This makes them easy to read and makes the design simple and not too
complicated.
Both magazines use flashers to give the magazine some contrast - bot stand out
from the background to make them easier to read.
Both of the magazines’ main headlines are of a much larger font than the other cover lines. This allows them to stand out and be
the focus of attention on the cover.
The use of a white background on both covers (more so on Rolling Stone) allows
the images and cover lines to become the central focus, as the simplicity of the background allows everything else to
appear bolder.
Contents
The ‘review’ section, originally from Q, was a good idea, so I thought I would implement
it into my magazine to give it more variation.
Both magazines (NME and Britpop) also had a subscription advert - both stand out so the reader can see them easily, hopefully
enticing readers to continue reading.
Unlike most music mags, I gave mine an ‘editors note’,
to allow the readers to see
what the views of somebody behind the scenes are.
Both NME and my magazine use a ‘band index to
allow the reader to find out where
their fave musicians are
within the respective magazine.
All 4 pages shown here use the same basic 3 colours - red, black and white. This is
presumably because those colours stand out best on each other, allowing easy to read
contents.
My contents pages are loosely based on the
contents pages of Rolling Stone. (Sadly I couldn’t get a good
quality pic of those.) It carries the basic house style shown in the cover
onto this page, using simplistic colours,
layout, etc.
Both sets of contents pages all have the contents split into sections, such as ‘news’ or
‘review’ or ‘features’. This
splits up the magazine and
categorizes, for easier reading.
ArticleI kept to the conventions again with my article
but added my own edge to it. I kept the big title and subheading, but removed the
dominant image and instead replaced it with various smaller images to fill the page with
more variation.I also kept the rule of third in which I kept the text and images inside of this rule. I did this to
make the article page more interesting and look like published popular music magazines.
The breakers help the readers navigation and also make the
page easier to read, as it splits up the questions.
The main titles are easy to see and catch the eye of the
readers.