My 1st question of my music magazine evaluation

1. Question 1: In what way dose your media
product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
By Oliver Harradine

2. Front Page
• You can definitely she a different in the image
quality because Q’s image is very crisp and high
focused were as mine is less focused and bit grainy
but this is on purposes because I wanted my image
to have a retro look to them so I took them on a
older camera to get this less focused image which is
a bit grainy to give it this retro look.
Here is my front cover compared to Q
magazine front cover which is a professional
magazine
• My main image is placed in the middle third and is
a medium close up this layout and image shot is
very commonly found on music magazines. You can
see that Q have also used a close up medium shot
for their main image but I have put mine in black
and white to give it a retro look were as Q have put
there image in colour with a filter because there
magazine is about all types of music and by using
colour they can show all the different types of
music.
• After my research I have made sure that I had a
house style that was not the same as another music
magazine so it stands out more. If you compare my
magazine to Q’s house style you can see there are
very different because Q’s is a very bright red which
will make it standout off the shelf were as might is a
an orange blue, pinkie red and pastel yellow. This
might not make it standout off the shelf like Q but it
tells the audiences clearly that this is a retro music
magazine because the colour are classic retro
colours.
• Both of our magazine have follow most of the
conventions of music magazine but Q have
chosen to uses a puff on their magazine in the
top right hand corner to highlight a special
article in the magazine were as I have chosen
to highlight a special article but in the form of
a banner I have chosen to do this to achieve
more colour on my front page so it eye
catching to the audiences
• We have both also followed the
convention of putting the image in
the middle third of the page and
having the coverlines either side
of the image and we have both
chosen to put the main coverline
in a bigger font than the other
coverline so it stand out of the
page and overlaying the image but
at the bottom so it doesn’t block
the image or draw to much
attention away from it.

3. Contents page
• We have positioned are title of are magazine in
the top left hand corner with contents next to
it to make sure the audiences know which page
they are on because a person reads from the
top left to the bottom right.
• Also we have put these titles in a banner which
is coloured in with are main colour to create
synergy with the front page and also to have a
clear house style which will set us apart from
the rest.
• We have also decided to us more than one
image on are contents page to give the
audiences more of a look into the rest of the
magazine, we have also sized our images to
show which are the most important article. The
bigger the image the more important the
article. We have also made it clear what
picture goes with which article by the uses of
number on each of the images.
• I decided to add a editors note on to my
contents page which Q have not done. I chose
to uses a editors note to give the audiences a
closer relationship with the writer which will
make them buy it again and again. This is what
I feel is lost in the Q contents page because
without the editors note it distances itself
more than my contents page.
• Next Q have decided to give the audiences a
view at one of the double pages in the
magazine. I have chosen not to do this to not
give too much away about what the rest of the
magazine, so it forces the audiences to look
through my magazine to find out, in turn
persuading them to buy it because they see
something that catches there eye.
• I also decided to put on a section on my
contents page about how the audiences can
subscribe to my magazine . Which Q have no
done but I have found that this is very common
on other music magazines such as NME.
Here is my contents page on the right compared to the
contents page of Q’s on the right.

4. Double page spread Here is my Double page spread at the bottom compared to
the double page spread from Q’s an the top.
• The big thing that you can see is the same in my magazine
and Q’s is we’ve both positioned are image on the right
hand page taking the whole page up. This is too make the
page eye-catching to the reader and also means the two
pages are just not taken up by a lot of let which will be
boring to the reader and might forces them to put the
magazine back on the self.
• We have also both decided to began are double page
spread with a pull quote from the article to help give the
article a title and give the audience a fell for the article
before they go a head a read it. Also by doing this we are
marking a key moment in the article which the reader
should look out for making it more enjoyable to them.
• We have both continued are house style on are double
page spread with Q’s massive red “T” and my banner and
highlighted words. This means we have both created
synergy between are double page and the other pages
giving my magazine a professional look because creating
synergy between all the pages is a big convention in
making a magazine.
• There are some differences in the images of are double
page spread. Q have used a long shot of an artist which is
good because it means it can take up more spaces with
out pulling to much focuses of the text. Were as mine is a
medium shot because I used the prop of a guitar and I
wanted this prop to be in the middle of the image to catch
the audience eye and draw them into the article. Also I
wanted the camera to be closer to my models face to
capture more of his facial expression to give him a closer
relationship to the audience.
• I believe my text of my double page spread looks
professional because like Q I have followed the
convention of using columns to layout my text making it
easier for the audience to read and keep the page
organised.