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- 1. Evaluation 1. In whatway does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?
- 2. • Before producingmy front cover, double page spread and contents page, I had a brief idea of what my magazine would look like, this was mainly because I had looked at different examples of R&B magazines and preferred some to others. The types of things I would include, to make sure my magazine was kept conventional, are shown below and these could also allow me to challenge and develop my ideas: • - The masthead on my front cover • - Bursts or splashes • -Teasers • - Three colour themed rule • - Sell lines • - Main image dominating the front cover • -Fashion extras • - Bar code and price • -Email address • - Colloquial language • - Interview • - One page on the double page spread, which was mainly my model.
- 3. FRONT COVER. On the front cover, I have followed conventions by using a masthead, teasers, three coloured scheme rule, sell lines, main picture dominating the page, fashion extras, bar code, price and the email address. I made sure aused a main image Here is I picture of my front cover and the example I wanted to base mine on: Using a sell line at the top of the cover of a female, as it is used as a keeps conventions here as many other sex appeal for males to look at magazine do it as well, but I also and read about, which invites developed it, by using POP/Hip-Hop them more to buy the magazine. artists as well, as some people will get This is also very conventional for them confused between the two my R&B based example. different typed genres. I used a boost here to attach readers to I made the models head cover the mast the main model. This was purposely head, to keep conventions as done, as she is the most important thing on the page, also because my I have also added in extras like a teaser double page is all about her. This was which says there's a secret quest who also done on my R&B example so I speaks and strips. This develops thought it was important to do it to conventions as the R&B example that I base keep it conventional mine on, didn’t do this, but it puts the I used a sell line here to keep readers on edge. conventions and positioned it above the main models name, as readers I kept conventions on my models pose, as would know it was about her. I wanted to make sure that she looked sexy and seductive, by putting her hand I made sure I include a price and a on her hip and looking very curvy- this bar code, which was positioned at would attract a big audience! the fair bottom left hand corner. This was so my buyers could purchase When it came to producing the the magazine and to show them how mast head, I want to make sure it much it is. However, I am challenging took up at least a quarter of the conventions here because most of page, as it is one of the most the examples I seen had positioned I have challenged conventions here as mostly important things on the cover, in different places but I think it looks all the examples that i researched had models but also mainly other R&BG better here on my front cover. that were half dressed to attract their readers. magazines do this as well.
- 4. Here is myfront cover and beside it is the R&B example that I liked and wanted to base mine one. I wanted to keep to conventional idea as much as possible, mainly because I hadn’t of seen a music magazine other than POP and ROCK, in the UK and as my example was based in the United States, I didn’t want to develop or change much, otherwise ill break conventions. I am going to indelicate the types of things I did to keep conventions, in relation to this example. However, the main thing that I couldn’t do was display the background and the title, in the same way the example has, which I was really disappointed about. Front cover Example .
- 5. Double Page Spread When it came to making my double page spread I had in mind already that I wanted a main picture on one page, then my interview on the other. I broke up the questions and answers using a different I also wanted to keep colour, which linked within I Tried containing a fold in the middle of the three colour scheme the three colour scheme the page to split the image and interview rule on the double page rule. However, the example up, wish also keeps conventions with the spread as well, to keep that I based my spread on example R&B magazine I based mine conventions didn’t contain an interview so on. it didn’t do this, so I developed conventions. I made sure the models name was big and bold, so the audience could see who the interview was about. The example that I based mine on also did this. When researching R&B magazines, I came across they put quotes in the middle of the page to display what the model had said- I really liked this! So used it in my spread to attract the audience to certain quotes and give them hints into what she talks about. This also linked to keeping conventions.
- 6. Here is mydouble page spread and the R&B example that I used. Again, I wanted to keep as many conventions as possible, so none were broken. However, my example magazine did not do an interview, it was a real life story, although I didn’t want to do this so i tried to develop conventions and look at over examples that displayed an interview. The ones I did see, did follow my idea of breaking up the questions and answers using colours so I continued to do this as my own idea. I am now going to indicate, again, the things I did to keep conventions or liked the idea of what the example had. My double page spread Example Text boxes in columns- same thing.
- 7. Contents Page For my contents page, I wanted to keep basing it on another R&B example. However, the one I did want to base it on was very confusing as I think it had three pages worth of contexts so I couldn’t do it this as it would have been very time consuming. This therefore meant I had to try and fit as much on the one page as possible, but I did have to miss some bits out. However, here below is my contents page: I kept the same design of Shortened my mast title, to kept conventions, head title to ‘B’ to however I changed the feature on the contents colour to develop it and make page, mainly because it look a bit different. the example magazine did so, but I also made I was really unsure whether to sure the model had use this font, mainly because its some of her body over it. more aimed at a male gender. However, the example I was basing the page on did this so I thought I would just do it to make it conventional to that example. Carried on using a To keep conventions teaser, to persuade the with my example reader to read that magazine, I added what specific story. This is the model was wearing also something I and where it was continued doing to kept brought, also I added in this page conventional. who styled her hair and who did her make-up which was a Used the same model as the development of front cover and double page conventions. spread, however used a picture with a different pose to make the magazine less boring.
- 8. Here is mycontents page and the R&B example that I based it on. With this piece of work i did purposely try to follow as many as conventions as possible because I couldn’t research many content pages as there weren't many at all. I am again going to indicate the things I have concentrated on and looked at, in order to keep my contents page conventional
- 9. Overall Altogether, I thinkI have worked well in order to keep as mainly conventions as possible on my front cover, contents pages and double page spread. However, I could have done more to develop and challenge conventions but I was worried the outcome of doing that wouldn’t link back to an R&B magazine.