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

2. All three of my media products use and develop
forms and conventions of real media products.
I did this so as to make each product believable
and authentic looking without making it exactly
the same as existing magazines.
Before even starting my planning I looked into
the codes and conventions of everything I would
be producing to allow me to make decisions
about which conventions to adhere to and
which to challenge.

3. Front Cover
My front cover takes inspiration from ‘The Best of Norfolk’ magazine. I
followed the codes and conventions of this magazine as I liked the
layout as it was simple. The main convention unique to this magazine
that I chose to follow was the line of images along the bottom of the
page.
I chose to use this as It was
enticing and drew attention to
the features of the magazine.
The Bold masthead was a
consistent feature across all the
magazines that I researched as it
stands out and engages the
reader.

4. Contents Page
For my contents page I took inspiration from a copy of Time Out
magazine. I kept the style similar but the main features such as
the images and text were significantly different. However I
challenged the convention of having bright colours by keeping
the colour scheme grey, blue
and white. Like the time out
cover, I included a section of
‘regulars’ and a comment
from the editor which allows
the reader to feel a personal
connection to the magazine.

5. Page 3/4
For my 3rd
page, I took inspiration from a
page in ‘Best of Norfolk’ magazine.
Instead of having a brighter coloured
background like in The Best of Norfolk, I
decided to use Photoshop's eyedrop tool
to get a background colour from the
image itself to tie it all together. The idea
of this page links with my ‘Tube Guide’ on
the contents page.
Having a few pages of the magazine
dedicated to some tube stations and
the activities and sights around that
area.
I chose to use Tower Hill as the example
as at the time it had the poppies in the
moat- a very iconic piece of artwork
and therefore an obvious reason to
visit.

6. Billboard
Through my research I found only one
example of a billboard to advertise a
regional magazine, therefore there
were limited codes and conventions to
adhere to. Due to the lack of
examples I chose not to stray too far
from the one I found and therefore
kept the layout very similar. I chose to
have the background a bright colour
like my example as it would stand out
to passers by and draw their attention.
I also chose to include images of the
magazine on different devices as this
would inform viewers of how versatile
it is to access my magazine.

7. Website
Due to the limitations of Weebly, the site I used
to create my website, I could not adhere
completely to codes and conventions of other
sites.
However, this meant I was able to design it to
my preference rather than try to adhere
completely to codes and conventions. I chose
to include an image of the current issue of the
magazine, as most websites did but I also chose
to have a larger welcome image than other
sites I had researched. The inclusion of a
snippet of an article is something I had seen on
other sites while researching and I chose to include this as it would intrigue a
viewer to click on the article and view its contents and thus hopefully explore
the rest of the site and also purchase the magazine.