The document discusses how the student's magazine product challenges and develops existing media forms. It describes taking inspiration from music magazines like NME and Rolling Stone for the bold header font and single portrait image on the cover. The contents page emulates a 1990s magazine by focusing on a background image and using consistent fonts. The double page spread follows the conventional three column layout and interviews a fictional artist about a recent event, resembling articles found in other magazines.

1. Evaluation Question 1:
In what ways does your product
develop or challenge forms of
existing media products?
Jess Pardoe

2. Front cover: The header of my
magazine front cover is in a very bold
font, similar to other well-known music
magazines such as NME, Kerrang! Q,
and The Rolling Stone; this large, bold
font is also shown in other magazines
such as Vogue, Elle, and Dazed and
Confused. Also on my front cover I have
used one single image to represent my
fictional artist, Georgia. The picture is a
mid-shot, the reader can see her face
clearly, and her shoulders, but nothing
more. These styles of camera shots are
often found on music magazines; this is
because the magazine is not focusing
on the artists’ clothes or appearance in
particular, but they choose to show
who the magazine features as it informs
the reader.

3. I have taken a convention from
an existing edition of Esquire
magazine as inspiration for my
magazine cover; the Esquire
magazine had a scribbled font
listing the features of the
magazine surrounding the front
cover image. I have recreated
this in my own style as I have
changed certain design features
of the cover, such as the layout,
image style, and text used. I
found the scribbled font on a
website, this is not how
magazines in industry would
find their fonts as they would
have large computer packages
with a range of fonts already
available.

4. Contents: My contents page is not a
typically functional contents page; the
main focus of the page is on the
background image. I took the inspiration
from this from a friend of mine who had
recreated an existing magazine contents
page from R.A.D magazine, from the late
90’s. I used my own photograph, as all
magazines would for all their pages; I
chose a picture I took in New York City, it’s
of a skyline from the Hudson River. The
picture is suitable for the contents page as
the colours are dull, which means text can
be placed over it easily; the picture also
has a large space in the centre where the
sky is, this means the emphasis is still on
the text of the contents page. The font I
used on the contents page is the same font
I have used for the article on my double
page spread, which also matches the font
used on the front cover for the date, issue
number, and price. The font of the title
matches the font used for the header of
my front page, this shows continuity across
my pages; existing magazines always show
continuity across fonts and page layouts.

5. Double page spread: My double page spread has the conventional ‘3
columns to a page’ that most magazines try to produce; I have used 3
images of Georgia that are all very similar to try and show her character
through the photographs. My article is based on a fictional
artist, Georgia, and her split from her former band. It is typical of
magazines to interview artists after a recent event, whether it’s a
gig, tour, festival, or change in style. I based my interview answers on a
realistic perspective of Georgia’s fictional personality; her style is similar
to Alice Glass so her responses can be quite blunt, and at other
times, elaborate.