Amelia Hughes evaluated her media product and how it uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real magazines. She used bold text for the masthead to draw attention, added a banner and catching selling line. Her cover image challenges conventions by having the model look up. She utilized the left third to attract readers and included a buzzword. Headlines, pull quotes, columns, and colors were used to mimic real magazines. Overall, she learned how to make her product more professional by taking inspiration from real media and refining her layout, images, and planning.

1. Evaluation Amelia Hughes

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Mast head Banner I have made my masthead bold to draw the readers attention straight to the name of the magazine. I have used black so the title stands out on the white background. I choose to add a banner at the top of my magazine because I think it looks effective . Selling Line Cover Image I decided to create a catching selling line as this is a factor of a real media magazine. I have purposely challenged one of the rules of conventional magazines as normally the model is using eye contact but I made her look up as the main emotion is her screaming as I think this draws the readers attention to the magazine. Left third The left third is heavily utilised, as its an effective way of attracting readers this I why I have included my main cover line in that area because I want the reader to know what the magazine contains straight away. I have also used a buzz word in the left bottom corner to again catch the readers attention Date Line Barcode

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Headline I included a headline so people would recognise the page and what it was about before they started reading it. Pull out quotes pull quotes are used to attract the reader into reading the magazine and editors try to use a exciting part of the article which makes the reader wonder what there talking about. I also tried to do this. Introductory paragraph I wrote an introductory paragraph because it draws the audience in. I also put my Magazine title in black capitals to match my front cover. columns I have set out my text in columns because real media products all do this so it must be the most effective way to lay out text. Also i ensured my columns of my article were all equal length and width to make the magazine layout look more professional. image I have used another image to add colour and to further grab the readers attention. Colour scheme Again I stuck to 3 main colours during my double page spread. I included purple, dark red black, white and grey. I choose these colours because I thought they worked well together and would be effective. Main image my model is not using eye contact as I wanted her to look across the page at her name as I thought it would be effective, it also makes the reader want to know what's she’s thinking.

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Pull out quotes I used a pull out quote in my contents page to the reader a bit of interesting information to make them want to read the article. columns I used columns for my contents page to make it look neat and ultimately so it would look professional. I also put any important words in red to make them stand out and also because it matched my house style. Images I used images of different people to intrigue the reader and make them want to read about them.

5. How does your media product represent particular social groups? The social group I’m representing is predominantly teenage girls as my double page spread is about a female artist and the content of it contains girly gossip. Also I have represented my artist to be carefree ,youthful and not defined by her sexuality. The genre of my music magazine is pop music. This covers a wide range of sub genres, which involve a wide variety of types of music that are currently popular with the public. The clothing my artist is wearing reflect a trendy late teenage girl and her body language shows she is quite rebellious and her facial expression shows her letting her passion and emotion out for music.

6. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? I believe that my magazine is rather original, however I think that a media institution such as Vibe magazine may distribute my product as my magazine has some things in common, E.g. similar layout and also similar genre of music. The monthly music magazine Vibe was launched by Quincy Jones in 1993, in partnership with Time inc.

7. Who would be the audience for your media product? I believe my magazine is aimed at a large target audience as pop music is music that the majority of the public like. My magazine is generally aimed at both genders, however this particular issue revolves around a female artist which makes the magazine appear more feminine.

8. How did you attract/ address your audience? I attracted and addressed my target audience by creating a magazine that jumps out of the magazine stand and is eye-catching for my target audience. I did this by using bright colours and eye-catching images so that the audience would notice my magazine and flick through it making them interested and more likely to purchase it.

9. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? I have learnt how to use Photoshop to edit and enhance photographs. I also learnt how to use particular techniques such as the brightness and contrast tools to help my images appear professional.

10. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? My main image wasn’t neatly cut out, I had to use a rubber to fade the edges out which wasn’t very professional. I used 3 main colours which made it look effective and professional. The magazine looks very plain and there is not much information on it. My full product looked neat and structured and was well planned. I used catchy headlines to get the readers attention. I also researched real media products to take inspiration and ideas from. I took a lot of time to cut my main image out using more advanced tools. I also took more time and thought when directing my model on the shoot. I didn’t use a date line or a selling line in the preliminary task so it looked unprofessional. It also looked thrown together as not enough planning was used. I was able to make each part of the front cover stand out as I was aware of using the left third to grab the readers attention.