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Evaluation-Question 1

By Callum Wilson

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

products?

My magazine ‘Amplify’ ‘repeats’ (Steve Neale) some codes and conventions from Mojo magazine. The code and convention that was ‘repeated’ is the ‘star appeal’ of the Mojo magazine Paul McCartney's facial expression, which ‘repeats’ on the star appeal of Amplify, and also the centering of the cover star. The challenges I have made like having a long shot of Tom, making the masthead centered on the left of the magazine are different from how it is displayed on the Mojo magazine

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

products?

I have repeated the addition of the editor as it is seen in every magazine for every issue. And they give a little explanation about the magazine and thank people for reading the magazine. The headline in my magazine is presented differently to what the inspiration magazine is as I challenged why kerrang put the name of their magazine next to the headline (contents), as it looked unnecessary to have the masthead of the magazine that should be on the front cover in the contents page as well. I also challenged the use of their images

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

products?

My double page spread I used Q magazine as inspiration, I used an interview with Ed Sheeran as seen. The main image is a long shot of my ‘star appeal’ looking off into the distance. I put the image on the right of the double page spread different from how Ed Sheeran is presented in Q. this relates to Neale theory of challenge as I have changed the inspiration into my own idea to suit my target audience for my magazine. I then put the pull quote from the interview and put it above the main image and part of the interview to make it stand out. The layout of the interview I have challenge and put a border around the text and changed the color of the text so that the audience can see who's asking and answering the questions.