Evaluation Question1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e. of music magazines)

The title

My title is not very unique and is quite plain compared to other magazine titles but this; I think works well with the genre of my music magazine. Although the font is quite formal unlike some magazines such as ‘Kerrang’ which is quite un-tidy for the font; but works well because of the genre of music it links too.

Photos and Images

I have developed photos further into editing compared to other magazine pictures. My photographs and edited by using filters to contrast or make them bolder or fainter. Although magazines such as Interview have used editing using black and white but also added a tint of another colour such as the example below of singer Ellie Goulding there is a slight colour of blue within the photo rather than plain white and black. Yet I do think Interview magazine does show a lot more modelling photographs. My magazine also has a lot of images which have been taking outside which shows a difference to the normal pictures in magazine’s being took inside on sets.

Colour schemes

The colours I used for my magazine were quite neutral, for example the cream and the gold/green colour which all created quite a calm colour scheme for the magazine cover. Although I did use black a lot in my magazine as I wanted parts of the text to stand out rather than be too soft with the cream background. Many other magazines seem to keep to all bold colours or all neutral colours whereas my colour scheme has a slight twist with both sharp colours (black) and mellow colours ( creams, light browns and greens and blues).

Page Layouts

The pages are presented in similar ways to the normal magazine. For example the double page spread; the writing is shown to be in columns with images and quotes around the information. The images however are overlapping and I have used various editing to make them fade into each other. The front cover is also conventional; the masthead is at the top of the page with quotes, band names and other various cover lines around the main picture, although it is not very common to have a full picture as the cover background. My contents page is pretty much the same as any normal contents page of a music magazine. It has the list of things that are included in the magazine, although the layout of this is quite unique as I have more or less put it into the paragraph style which is quite squashed together.  There are also photos to show what is going to be involved in the magazine with numbers equivalent to the page numbers they are on.


Front Cover


Acoustic Magazine is of a simliar genre to my magazine, although the layout and designed, compared to my own is very differntly set out. Acoustic Magazine uses quite bold colours, such as red white and black whereas my own magazine, Unplugged has a more softer tone for the front cover as i have used quite neutral colours shown in my colour pallet in the above section. I think my magazine creates a more female effect to the magazine, but Acoustic magazine seems be for a more male and female target audience. I have used more handwritten style fonts unlike the bold fonts on the Acoustic magazine.
Although my magazine does have the usual conventions of a magazine, such as the eye-catching coverlines, the price and also a single image on the front.