Evaluation Question 1

1. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
◆ My magazine mostly conformed to magazine conven4ons. My magazine
was a pop magazine. For example in my front cover I took the image of my
model at a mid-shot because that is how front cover images are
tradi4onally taken. Here is an example of what I looked at:
◆ Other things I liked from looking at
Other professional magazines is the
‘+’ sign.
◆ One way my magazine subverted the magazine conven4ons is the page numbers.
I’ve wriFen my page numbers in words rather than numbers to grab aFen4on
towards this feature because it’s a unique method of using page numbers
Mid-shot This gives my
Magazine a professional look.
It’s a good way to fill up empty
spaces and enhance the layout
of the front cover
My
magazine
Contents
page
‘We love pop’
Magazine
Contents
page

2. Does my magazine fit into my genre?How have I used the
models as music artists?
◆ My magazine fits into my chosen music genre. My chosen music genre as
men4oned before was pop magazine. In my research process I found out
that my respondents associated pop genre with mostly purple and pink.
This is how I decided on my theme colour: Pink and Purple and black as a
base colour
u The models I chose as my music ar4sts are appropriate to feature in my magazine. In
magazines models are shown to have a slender body, for girls magazines,
models keep up with the trend and in my pop music survey analysis most
respondents expected a pop ar4st to dress in edgy fashion which is how my
models dressed. Their mise-en-scene(hair, ouOit, makeup) is popular among
young women and teen girls.
Front cover Contents page DPS

3. How have I used, photography,editing and mise-en-scene?
u I’ve used mise-en-scene appropriately for my music magazine by
following the trends and using them to aFract my teen/young adult
female audiences. For example the off shoulder ouOits and boxer braid
hairstyle are trendy and many popular ar4sts and students can
be seen following the fashion.
u Before I started making the front cover and DPS, I’ve edited the
images I’ve taken. For examples I’ve used photoshop
u When I was deciding my background
seVng for my DPS, I thought that high key
ligh4ng in the background and on my model
will make her seem “glowy” and angelic
because she is the main focus of my DPS
Before
After
Both images
were taken for my
DPS and they’ve
been cropped and
edited in photoshop