Jacob Ellis evaluated his media product and found that: 1) He used conventions of real magazines such as a masthead, cover lines, contents page, and barcode. 2) He developed forms by using unique fonts and colors consistently throughout. 3) He challenged conventions by including free items and a competition to encourage purchases, straying from a purely informative format.

1. Evaluation
Jacob Ellis

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
Free stuff inside makes
people want to buy it more.
Masthead is used a unique
font with an outer glow and
a drop shadow.
Date, issue number and
price.
Cover lines show what is
inside the magazine.
Barcode to
Main cover line promoting make it look
the main image. professional.
Different bands featured in
the magazine.

3. I have used the I have a list of
masthead from the content
front cover in my showing what
contents page and is in my
used the same font magazine.
for the contents title.
I have the same
colour scheme as
I have a photo of
my front cover but
the main artist
my contents is
focused on my
more black then
double page
red.
spread.
I also have a note
from the editor of
my magazine. I have a
competition to
encourage the
readers to buy the
I have a gig guide
magazine.
for people who are
interested in gigs.

4. I have put the bands name big and
bold at the top of the page.
I have included
I have the masthead at the top.
the date on the
page.
I have the same
colour scheme that
is running
throughout my
whole magazine.
The main image is of the lead
singer of the band. I have him I have the page numbers
sitting down and just relaxing to at the bottom.
make it look like an interview.