Transcript of media evaluation
- 1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE DEVELOP ORCHALLENGE
FORM AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MAGAZINES?
- 2. CONVENTIONSCompared to the real magazines my magazine is
quite similar and I haventreally challenged the conventions, I may
have challenged then slightly where I have a long shot and not a
medium long shot, other than that my magazine isnot challenging the
conventions. I have decided to stick with the conventionsas I
wanted my magazine to look professional, I also wanted to make sure
that I showed more importance to the model hence why I put the
masterhead behind the model. If I was to challenge the conventions
my magazine wouldnot look as professional as I would like it to
look and also by me notchallenging the conventions it would appeal
more to my target audience which is teenager between the ages of
fifteen to twenty-five, this target audience inmy opinion is the
most hardest to get correct as their style is always changing,so
keeping up with the trend can be very difficult, so not challenging
the conventions was the safest option.
- 3. MY MUSIC MAGAZINE DOESNT CHALLENGE OTHER FORM ANDCONVENTIONS
OF REAL MAGAZINES AS I HAVE TRIED TO DO SIMILAR ONES TO THE
REALMUSIC MAGAZINES, BECAUSE I FIND THEMMORE APPEALING, ANDTHIS
REFLECTED ON MYWORK AS I THOUGHTTHAT MY MUSIC MAGAZINE WOULD APPEAL
TO MY GENREAND MY TARGETAUDIENCE.
- 4. WITH THE CONTENT AND DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD I HAVE DONE THE SAME
BY NOT CHALLENGING THE CONVENTIONS BECAUSE AS THE FRONT COVER I
WANTED MY CONTENT PAGE AND DOUBLEPAGE SPREAD TO ALSO LOOK AS
PROFESSIONAL AS I COULD MAKE THEM. I MAY HAVE CHALLENGED THE
CONVENTION BY HAVING TWO CONTENTS PAGES AS MOST R&B MUSIC
MAGAZINES DONT HAVE TWO PAGES, I DECIDED TO HAVE TWO PAGES AS I
WANTED TO HAVEPICTURES OF ARTISTS THAT WILL BE FEATURED IN THE
MAGAZINE, I THINK THIS GIVES THEREADERS A BETTER PICTURE OF WHO
WILL BE IN THE MAGAZINE RATHER THAN THEM HAVING TOREAD THE NAMES OF
THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BE FEATURED IN THE MAGAZINE, ALSO BECAUSE OFMY
TARGET AUDIENCE TEENAGERS WOULD PREFER TO SEE PICTURES AND LESS
TEXT. I HAVE TRIED TO MAKE MY MUSIC MAGAZINE AS APPEALING AS
POSSIBLE FOR MY TARGET AUDIENCE, I HAVE DONE THIS BY LOOKING AT
OTHER R&B MUSIC MAGAZINES AND GETTING SOME OF THEIDEAS FROM
THERE AS THEY ARE DONE PROFESSIONALLY AND THEY ALSO SELL MILLIONS
EVERYDAY. IF FOR EXAMPLE I WAS NOT TO FOLLOW THE CONVENTIONS AND
HAVE JUST TEXT ON THE CONTENT PAGE I THINK MY MUSIC MAGAZINE WOULD
NOT LOOK LIKE A MUSIC MAGAZINE AS IWOULD PERSONALLY CHOOSE A
MAGAZINE WITH MORE PICTURES AND LESS TEXT, SO THIS IS THEMAIN
REASON WHY I DIDNT CHALLENGE THE CONVENTIONS.
- 5. FOR MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD I MAY HAVE CHALLENGED THE
CONVENTIONS BY HAVING MORE THAN ONE PICTURE AS MAGAZINES WOULD HAVE
JUST ONEPICTURE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE AS READERS TEND TO LOOK AT
THAT SIDE OFTHE PAGE FIRST, MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD IS NOT FOLLOWING
THE RULE OFTHIRDS AS THE AUDIENCE LOOK TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE
DOUBLE PAGESPREAD, I HAVE CHOSEN TO PUT THE TEXT AND A FEW IMAGES
SUGGESTING THAT THE TEXT IS MORE IMPORTANT. I HAVE ALSO DECIDED TO
DO A QUESTION AND ANSWER AS THIS IS A WAY OF FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT
THE ARTIST. THERE IS NOT A LARGE AMOUNT OF TEXT USED FOR THIS
ARTICLE WHICH WILL APPEAL TO A YOUNGER AUDIENCE AS YOUNGER
GENERATIONS DONT LIKE TO READ LARGE AMOUNTS OF TEXT, THIS GOES WELL
WITH MY TARGET AUDIENCE AS ITS THE YOUNGER GENERATION.
- 6. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTREPRESENT SOCIAL GROUPS? On the
front cover of the magazine there is a young model which shows that
the magazine isaiming towards the younger generation. The gender
that would mostly buy this magazine would be both male and female.
However because there is a female on the front cover people may
suggestthat this magazine may be aimed at young women or teenage
girls, this is not the case as you would also find men would also
buy magazines that have women/teenage girls on the front cover,it
may also be a possibility that men may buy these magazines more.The
clothing the model is wearing on the front cover is stylish and its
also in trend which shows the model is keeping up with the fashion
and teenagers like this fact because they can relate to it,because
they can relate to artists means that the artist inspires them
which is a good thing because it shows that the target audience is
correct and also the genre of the magazine is also correct. If
these things were not correct the music magazine would be
interpreted in the wrong way, this is why I have made sure that I
have done enough research and planning to make surethat my magazine
shows that it is targeting a specific audience, I have done this by
the way I havelaid my text and also by the way I have chosen my
model to look as I believe these are the main things that people
look for when they decide which magazine they would like to
purchase. The genre of my music magazine is R&B, because this
type of genre is popular amongst theyounger generation, it can be
more difficult to design a music magazine that is different to the
other music magazine but also very similar to other music magazines
in terms of the layout andalso what the model looks like. I have
tried to make my magazine look stylish and modern by using colours
that stand out and also fit the genre of the music magazine, doing
this I had to look atother music magazines to see how they would
use colours and I realised that they had a coloursscheme throughout
the magazine which made the magazine look tidy and organised. This
is one of the things that I also tried to follow and I think my
colour scheme goes really well with the R&Bgenre.