Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1

• 1.
  In what waysdoes your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• 2.
  Production  I usedthe internet to check for big-name music magazines such as Kerrang!, Q magazine and NME to see how their magazines are portrayed.  I created my music magazine using mainly photoshop to match up to the quality of real music magazines.  I based the layout of my cover, contents and 2 page spread on certain rock magazines that inspired me.
• 3.
  Camerawork  Here are a few examples of photos I used in my music magazine:
• 5.
   I usedmy IPhone camera to take all photos in my magazine.  I took them from different angles to give them different effects (i.e. low angle, close up…). I thought I’d do this because as I flicked through the pages of famous rock magazines, I noticed that their photos were taken from different angles, etc.  I took a wide range of photos; different angles of the same photos. This helped me choose the best photos.  I used the best technology at my disposal to get the best possible photo quality I could.
• 6.
  Layout  The main image slightly covers the masthead, just like in most magazines I analysed. This is because the magazine is so famous, you only need to see a few letters from it’s title and it’s shape/design to recognise it.  The taglines are scattered around the main image, using different fonts.  I got the layout idea from two different covers: a Kerrang! magazine cover and an NME magazine cover. They have generally the same type of genre in their magazine so I thought it would be relevant to use them as a template.
• 7.
  Layout  In thetop left-hand corner of my contents page, I left an “editors message”, directed at the people who have bought my magazine. I saw this feature in a few magazines such as Kerrang! and thought it would be interesting to put in my magazine.  I tried to use as many different fonts as possible without going too over the top with it; I basically used a different font for each bands name, depending on their genre (distorted for heavier bands)
• 8.
  Layout  I based the layout of my 2 page spread on a “Rock Sound” music magazine’s 2 page spread.  One page has pull-out-quotes with a photo of a band member playing an instrument. Rock magazines that I analysed had this feature so I thought it would be good to include in my magazine.  The other has the lead singer posing next to paragraphs of text which talk about him and his band. This is the first time I used a photo of a band member posing, so I thought it would be a good idea to use it next to text that is talking about them. My 2 page spread Rock Sound 2 page spread
• 9.
  Focus Group  Iused a focus group to evaluate my final magazine draft, hoping to use any constructive comments to improve my final product.  This allowed me to do the best I can with the technology at my disposal to get the same effects for my magazine as big name magazines i.e. Q magazine, NME and Kerrang!  I published my focus group on my blogspot.