The document summarizes an evaluation of a magazine coursework project. It discusses how the magazine challenges conventions through its pink color scheme and traditional layout. It represents a young male rock musician and aims to attract both female and male audiences aged 16-30 who are fans of rock music. Feedback was generally positive about the color scheme, images, and language appealing to the target audience, though the contents page could be improved. Microsoft Paint, Fireworks, and Publisher were used to create the magazine, and planning was found to be key.

1. EVALUATIONAS Magazine courseworkBy Chays Parker

2. Conventions that my magazine goes against and challenges are conventions such as the colour scheme, which is a predominately pink themed magazine which is traditionally a feminine colour but we wanted to go against the stereotype and open the colour up to become a staple of the magazine and to be taken much more as a multi-sex colour.

3. It follows the traditional layout of most rock music magazines in the way you have the main featured artist to the right of the product and the articles situated to the left and the masthead along the top.

4. It also does what other popular magazines do which is to place the artist featured in front of part of the masthead to increase chances of the artist being noticed and not overshadowing the masthead to much so that people who aren't familiar to the magazine will at least have a chance to recognize the logo.In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

5. Examples of other magazines

6. My magazine was aimed towards the 16-20 age group of students and fans of rock music. The scheme of the magazine and layout shouldn’t be too bias towards one sex as with the title being ‘HARD’ which is a very masculine phrase, its complimented with the pink color scheme which is very feminine and vibrant color so I believe both sex’s would find the magazine attractive.

7. The main artist featured in my magazine is a 20 year old male musician and in the interview we have quotes which are exactly as the artist said it. The responses the artist made were of a very honest and literal and represents his age group and gender as a very mature and interesting group of people so I think the audience would find that there age group and gender is represented very positively in this magazine and may also be inspiring to our audience as a positive role model.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

8. Magazines that are of similar style and content as mine would be that of Q magazine or NME magazine which are both rock oriented music magazine and are very much targeted to a younger generation of readers.

9. The publishing house that puts out NME’s magazines are called ‘IPC Media’

10. IPC would be the obvious choice company I would most focus on publishing my magazine as they have experience with magazines of the same style as mine and have made NME a very successful magazine so I would assume they help my magazine reach the same stature.