My Evaluation

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

My media product uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products by:

• The mast head of the magazine, is bold and in a box so it is instantly recognisable as a title for a magazine.
• The costume and props fit well with the genre of the magazine, as my model is dressed in indie type clothes.
• The mise-en-scene of the images are all close up, i wanted to get a full view of my models close up to create a better effect on his facial expression. I edited some of my images to make them black and white, however for my front cover image i kept it in colour and edited it to make it a little bit faded. My magazine's front cover is designed to be attractive and enticing to the reader, therefore i thought it was important to reach certain criteria.
• I did not add any props into my images other than my model wearing big square glasses, simply because i wanted my photograph's to mainly be close up shots.
• The title i chose for my magazine makes it instantly recognisable as a magazine targeted for its genre. I chose to create a big and bold title. I also made each letter black and red to stick with my theme. The styles of font's i used are decorative and modern. I added three stars for decoration on my mast head and again stuck to my theme of black and red.
• The written content that is in my magazine again, instantly presents that it is a rock/indie magazine. For example, an interview with an indie music artist and also the fact on the contents page it explains information on events such as "The Reading Festival" which presents that the same type of music that is played at that festival is the same as the magazine, so it is advertising it.
• The layout for each of the pages i created are similar, as i stuck to the same colours that fit in with the genre. I covered each page with colour and writing to ensure i did not leave any blank spaces. I wanted each page to look very well filled with information, pictures and colour but not so it looked too over the top.
• My contents page states the information on what is inside the magazine in very sophisticated font, i chose a black back ground for this page to make the white font stand out as it is the most important part of the page. I think the photograph's took from the concert i went to see work well on this page, it is very eye catching. Again i stuck with my theme of black and red, adding a black and red stripe on the side of the page for decoration.