1. Evaluation Question 1-
In what ways does your product
develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

2. Front Cover
In my research I found that
magazines usually have i have conveyed to a music
around 2 or 3 main colours magazine by making the
that are seen throughout main headline “Sally” the
the magazine, examples of biggest text there, I also
this is seen in “Kerrang” changed the type of font it
magazine where they use is as this will follow the
the colours black, white and article inside connecting
red. This is seen in my them both together. By
magazine as I have used the doing this I also challenged
colours pink, black and other music magazine such
white to challenge as “Billboard” and “Top of
professional magazines and the pops”.
also to attract my target
audience of teenage girls. The masthead “Rhythm” is
shown at the top of the
I have used a medium close page to stand out and is to
up of a girl which conveys a identify on the shelf with
real music magazine, I other magazines. I wanted
challenged the usual to challenge other
medium close up of a girl by magazines by using a
making the image black and different type of style
white and sticking to my writing which is a flowing
theme of it being handwriting one , also it is
sophisticated, and targeting seen in lower case letters. I
15-19 year olds. did this because in my
In the left hand corner I research I found that a lot of
have used a bar code and magazines use block and
date of when the magazine bold writing making them all
was issued, this is there so similar in that way.
that the magazine is sellable
to the reader, it also is an
easy place for the reader to
see to keep track of issues
they may have already got.

3. Contents Page
When researching in to other In my research I looked up
magazines I saw that they all other editorial notes from
have the magazine name on different magazines that are
the contents page, so to in the same genre music as
make my magazine look mine, “Pop”. By doing this I
conventional I added mine read other notes and gained
next to the heading ideas to write my own. I
“Contents”. found out that these include
A conventional feature on what will be in the
the contents page is the magazine and a welcome to
images. I added 3 images to the magazine.
my contents page to
represent different articles A common convention I
and pages in the magazine, have decided to place on
this makes the magazine look my contents page is the
professional and lets the page numbers next to the
reader see other pages of the features in the magazine,
magazine. I also found that this lets the reader see what
contents pages separate and pages to look for if they are
break up the headings and looking for anything in
features which is what I done particular.
by placing a pink banner with The colour scheme of black,
white writing, this is a white and pink running
conventional feature and through from the front
appears in other music cover is another convention.
magazines which I why I
places it there to look
professional.

4. Double Page Spread
I have used the
convention of
using the house
style colours of A page dedicated
pink, black and to the image of
white, and the artist is a
again I have common
used the convention
“Heart” that
appears here I challenged the
above the I and pull quote of “I
on the front just can’t believe
cover. it” by slanting it to
By using a the side and not
cover line being straight and
“Reveals all” it in line.
makes the I used a different
article feel font style for the
dramatic and pull quote and
inviting. title to the article,
Drop caps to I wanted to do
start the article this so the article
off, this is a is unique and
common different to the
convention and rest of the
is seen in many magazine.
magazines.
I also used
another
common
convention
which is using
paragraphs to
separate each
question and
answer.