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Evaluation Question One
1. AS Media.
IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE
FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS.
2. CONVENTIONS
Conventions are elements which you always find in a
particular media text. For instance, magazines have their
own conventions, as do soap episodes, films etc.
3. HOW HAVE I USED CONVENTIONS IN MY
MAGAZINE?
VIBE magazine tend to use a
maximum of two to three words
across the bottom of the page.
My double page spread uses
conventions which VIBE also use;
such as the black background
behind the text on the page. Also the
Drop Cap is commonly used in all
magazines not only music
magazines.
Another convention I have used is
the heading on the page which is big
and bold, in a very bright colour
yellow which I have continued to use
in all pages of the magazine.
I have decided to put some words in
a larger font size in order connate
similarly to VIBE magazine.
On the contents page I have
placed the typeface ‘contents’ in
a similar convention to VIBE
magazine. The letters ‘NTENT’
are slanted in the same
4. FRONT COVER
• The mast head I decide to use was my logo as it is noticed that
VIBE place their name behind the artist’s image; but that’s
because their magazine is well established. Whereas mine is
new and needs establishing, so I broke the convention (used by
VIBE) of placing it behind the artist, however, by placing the
logo on the page I still kept the convention but displayed it in
my own style.
• There’s always a dominant artist on the front cover of a music
magazine. I decided to take on this concept however, I
developed this and didn’t follow the traditionally convention of
Hip-Hop magazine, as Hip-Hop magazines tends to use either a
very aggressive man with a lot of jewelry also they commonly
have gold/silver teeth. In contrast the women are generally
objectified and show a lot of their skin and wear very little; their
posses are usually very sexual and provocative. I broke this
convention by having dressed my model fully and not showing
any skin.
• However, although I broke a convention I applied many
conventions too, such as placing the date, barcode/QR code
and website on to the page on the left hand side of the
‘EXCLUSIVE NOW’ convention.
5. CONTENTS PAGE
• The text on the contents page related to the
hip-hop and RnB genre. I made sure that the
conventions from VIBE and other music
magazines were carried on. Such as the way I
placed ‘CONTENTS’ I however chose to
develop this convention by making the ‘NTEN’
parallel to my models back.
• It’s a convention of all magazines to have the
date, page numbers, main picture (this can
sometimes be the same model as the front
cover), and in terms of writing I used very
minimalists.
6. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
• Costumes in the image are usually very
provocative, showing a bit of skin, I have
decided to break this convention by using
clothes to cover her skin. Fonts and style-
very much follow the style/convention
• RnB/Hip-Hop music magazines often display
their music artists as seductive or
promiscuous. Mine has kept it simple, and a
sharp design.
• The only thing different in the picture is her
pose however I have decide to keep the Mise
en scene the same with all three pictures in
my music magazine.
• I have followed the convention of using a
large image, and minimal text.