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.