The document provides an analysis of the forms and conventions used in a magazine cover and contents page created by the author. Key elements included a masthead, coverlines featuring popular artists, a large cover image, and graphics in red to draw attention. The contents page listed article headlines and pull quotes to entice readers. Formatting and layout techniques like drop caps and placement of images were used to mimic real magazines. The goal was to grab audience attention and showcase the R&B and hip hop genre focus through the design elements.

1. Evaluation of Music
Magazine.
Serena Badaloo

2. Forms &
Conventions(cover)
Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media product?
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All of the forms & conventions that I have used in my
first page are: coverlines, dateline, headline, masthead,
cover image, selling line, and a sub-heading. These are all
the things that made up my front cover.

3. Masthead
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From the image you can see that I have made it stand out
by adding a big font and size so that it is the first thing
you can see on the page, and so that it is obvious that
‘NRM’ is the title of the magazine, and this stand for ‘No
Role Modelz’. To make the finishing touches to it you
can see that I have put I a ‘stroke’ which basically gives it
more depth to the text.

4. Coverlines
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To grab the audiences attention I made sure that I made
there be the wel-known music artist’s in RnB so that
people would want to read more. I included celebrities
such as Rihanna, J-cole and Drake because they were
some of my favorite artist’s that would match the
audience to the genre of music I based my magazine on
which was RnB and HipHop.

5. Headline
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For my front cover was ‘Tyler’ I made sure that you
could see his name clearly, and I also placed it in front of
the cover image so that it was very obvious that it was
him. I also made it a different font to all the others and
made sure that it wasn’t in sync with the others that were
on the page. The size of his name I also made sure was
very big, but not so that it would overpower my
masthead.

6. Selling Line
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I decided to put this above my masthead because I felt
that it would be the first thing people see when they are
looking at the front page. I also thought that by putting ‘a
one time production RnB & Hip Hop’ I decided that this
sentence made the magazine more clear of what it is all
about. For this as you can see I used the stroke effect but
not too dense but so that the words were noticeable. Just
to finish it all off decided to underline it to give it it’s
title.

7. Cover Image
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For my magazine I used a few effects on the person I
chose to take a picture of which was tyler. I made the
muscle in his arm bigger by using the smudge tool in the
programme photo shop, then I decided to add a shadow
which in the original image there was no depth in the
picture at al, so I thought that by including all these
effects in my photo of tyler it would then make the image
of him come across as more intimidating. I wanted to
make sure that I caught the audiences attention of the
main image on the page and for it to relate to the genre. I
gave him that ‘badass’ look in a way but I also think I
made the image complete by having my model wear
branded clothing such as the calvin klein boxers that he
was wearing in the photo. I also made sure that he made
eye contact with the camera and having a serious face as
well.

8. Dateline
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This was an accessory to my magazine, it doesn’t have
that much meaning for my front cover apart from when
people buy my magazine they would want to know how
late the magazine had been published, also how many
days old the magazine might be because sometimes
people will buy a magazine one day old so not the actual
date of the day they decide to purchase one.

9. Sub-heading
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This was ‘Master of Music’ and it linked in very well
with cover image, and it all came together really nice,
because of my color scheme was black, white and red, the
red was mainly the color that was used to make the
important things on my page stand out, hence why I
decided to make ‘Master of Music’ be in red with a black
‘stroke’ to make the sub-heading more bold.

10. Contents- dateline
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For my dateline I only included the month and the year
because it didn’t need to be written twice. I decided to
place it it in the top left corner, but also so it’s the first
thing you see on the page.

11. Page Numbers
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I then had my page numbers and I decided to lay it out
after my stories, I started it from a page number of 6
going up to 14. I then made the font bold so that you can
see clearly which ones which.

12. Graphics
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Next was my graphics and as you can see I have made
red blocks to outline my text. I only used them to make
the important information stand out on the page, because
my color scheme was red, white and black I chose to
have red as the dominant color in my front cover,
contents and article. Also you can see that I highlighted
the name of my celebrities in red because they are
important to my magazine and also it is the first thing that
you would be reading because it is very bright and clear
that those are the main focuses in the magazine.

13. Artist name
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For this it was important that I chose my artists wisely
simply because it reflected back onto the genre which I
chose to focus my magazine on. So as you can see from
my front cover I have mentioned artists such as Rihanna,
Drake and J Cole and these are very loved people by their
fans and they would read anything to do with them, this
is why I thought about who I would have in my magazine
to make it more interesting and make people want to read
about it. Then the other 4 artists I made up, and those
names were Krisanne, Imogen, Tyler and Callum I
created a theses artists and made them have that certain
reputation and what they are best known for which is
Grime, Hip Hop and RnB.

14. Title
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For my title I made it be ‘CONTENTS’ just because I felt
that it didn’t need another title because everything was on
my front cover, I did this to get straight to the point so
that the audience know what they are reading straight
away. I made it the biggest thing on the page so that it
was very noticeable and easy to see I also outlined it in
red, this color shows being alert and that’s what I wanted
to get across the audience so they know what that specific
page is all about.

15. Feature Article
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I have featured 3 main articles all together from my
contents and the stories that the audience are reading
about, these are Krisanne, Krissy& Imogen and lastly
Tyler & Callum. I have basically written tasters of these
so that the audience have a little bit of flavor about what
will be going on in these articles. For example in Ty&
Cal’s I have mentioned them being a duo and creating
grime and RnB music but I have said enough for the
audience to be interested but not too much so I give the
story away.

16. Pull Quote
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I included a quote from one of the artists I had made up
(tyler) right at the bottom of my contents page, this was
to give a reminder that Tyler is the ‘master of music’ the
quote said by tyler was “my aspiration is to inspire the
younger generation and make a change to the world”.
This quote I felt would really draw the audiences
attention because it shows that Tyler takes a real passion
to music just like other people so this would be an
inspiration to them reading it and would make them want
to read more about my article.

17. Article
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Drop Cap- this was inserted into my text to make the
sentence starter more noticeable and so that you would
know where to look, most magazines have a drop cap in
them so to make it look more like an article and story
page I added a drop cap.

18. Headline
The headline for my article is 'Tyler Graham' and this I feel
stands out a lot because of the font I decided to use and also
where I placed it on the page, it was on the right hand side
of my article page and was near the top of the page so this
meant that it was the first thing you saw, and this also
meant that the main image for my article you would know
what the name of the person was because of how I
presented and had the page laid out.

19. Insert image
As you can see from this image I decided to include this in my article and the reason for this is
because my topic was around Tyler and the people he was producing music with so I thought
that it would be a good idea to put and insert image in so that the focus is not fully on Tyler so
added callum into the text to make things more interesting. I placed this in the middle of my
two columns so that it drew the audience in.

20. Photoshoot image
My main big photo was of tyler and this was a very
effective photo, because he is making eye contact with the
audience and I also made the image a reasonable size so
that my audience would know which was the main photo of
my article.