Front Cover-Music Magazine

Contents Page-Music Magazine

Double page spread-Music Magazine

Preliminary Task-School magazine front cover

Preliminary Task-Contents page

Evaluation

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

This is my own magazine that I created

This is the magazine that I am basing my music magazine on.

My magazine challenges the form of the conventions of real media products as I have followed the codes and conventions of music magazines. I found a magazine that I liked and I liked the layout of it so I based my magazine onto it. Both magazine follow the codes and conventions.

The orange circle is a puff and inside the orange cirlce I have put an exclusive object 'Free CD'. It makes the audience want to buy the magazine as its a puff (brings something extra to the magazine) when seeing this the readers wants the magazine so then they will buy it. I have done this and also used the same colour used here. 

The Title is always situated in the top left hand corner of the page where the audience begins to read. They normally have one main image, either a medium close up of usually a band or singer or a long shot of them - the image slightly covers title, however the title never covering main image.

Also have the price on the bottom left or right hand side, normally by the bar code. Its small to and not large.

Also the colours have to be consistent throughout, there cant be random colours doted everywere on the page otherwise it wouldnt flow and look proffesional. Look very cheap.

Both front covers are 'busy' and look interesting with a variety of context

Both front covers also have a tag line and is placed undernearth the main title of the magazine.

This is the contents page that i based my own contents page on

Here is my own contents page that I made on QuarkXPress

On your front cover of the magazine and contents, the colours have to be consistent throughout, so that why I have used the same colours in my contents that were used in front cover.

Both contents have 2 colums to make it easy to follow

Both contents have page number on the images used on the page

Both of the contents pages have the date and issue number of the contents on the top of the page

Both have used more than 2 images

Here is the double page spread that i based my own one on

Here is my double page spread that I made.

Both double page spread stick to simple layout, and is very straight-forward and not complicated. They both use a headline at the top middle page and they also use the main image in the middle of the page
They also both use a stand first
Both have equal colums
Both have 6 colums, 3 on each page

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The double page spread article, represents The Blackhand  which therefore represents people who like them and that is a large social group. Therefore my media product represents the particular social groups as positive.

3.What kind of media instuation might distribute your media product and why?


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Audience profile- Question 4 on the evaluation

Name: alex jones
Age: 18
Occupation: Works in Morrisons
Hair Colour: brown
Eye Colour: Green
Favourite Music: Lady Gaga, Katy perry, Ellie goulding
Buys her clothes at: Topshop, new look, miss selfridge
What she does in her spare time: goes shopping, gets her hair done, spends time with friends