The document provides an evaluation of a RnB magazine product. It uses conventions of real magazines such as cover lines, mastheads, pull quotes, and branding. The magazine represents RnB fans aged 15-25. A specialist RnB magazine could distribute the product to fill a gap in the market. The magazine aims to attract its target audience of younger RnB fans through striking cover images, competitions, and interesting artist interviews.

1. Sara McGranaghan
Evaluation

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Banner cover lines
Masthead
Cover
Cover
lines
lines
Main
cover
Cover star/
line
Main image
Pull quote Barcode

3. Branding
Main artist
Main list:
page
numbers
and titles
Secondary
images

4. Masthead
Main article
Pull
quote
Main image

5. Colour Scheme: Masthead:

6. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
Mainly RNB Fans Male & Female Aged 15-25

7. What kind of media institute might distribute your media
product and why?
Q
Kerrang No specialist RNB magazine
Gap in the market?
FHM
Pop

8. Who would be the audience for your media product?
What genre of music do you
prefer?
10%
RNB/Hip hop
40%
Rock
30%
Pop
Other
20%
RNB magazine –
hints of other genres included
such as pop

9. Striking cover image
What attracts you to a magazine?
14%
Cover star
7%
43% Competitions
Articles
Interviews
29% House style
7%
Interesting articles

10. How often do you purchase
magazines?
Disturbia –
bi-monthly magazine
10%
20%
Daily
Weekly
20% Monthly
50% Rarely/Never
How old are you?
0%
30% Under 16 Targets –
16-19
Younger audience
20-25
60%
10% Over 25

11. Chatty Important quotes
Informal
stand out
Addresses Large main
the reader image
Fun
Article not too long
House style

12. How did you attract/address your audience?
Glamorous cover model
Exclusive interview
Rihanna
Pull quotes Lil Wayne

13. Direct address

14. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process
of constructing this product?

17. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?