This document evaluates a student media product using forms and conventions of real media. It provides examples of how the student magazine's cover, contents page, and double page spread compare to conventions from NME and Kerrang magazines. The cover uses similar house colors but arranges elements differently. The contents page combines layouts from NME and Kerrang, using section headers, navigation bars, and photos. The double page spread takes inspiration from a Kerrang interview, using dark colors and white text to highlight an intense rock artist profile and large central photo.

1. EVALUATION
Question 1
(IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE DEVELOP OR
CHALLENGE FORMS & CONVENTIONS OF REAL PRODUCT MEDIA?)

2. • 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
• WHAT IT MEANS: Is your magazine typical or a bit different and in what way?
• HOW TO DO IT: Use a Powerpoint to upload pictures of your own production alongside
those of other magazines and compare them. Pick out the conventions on the pages and
say why they have been constructed in that way. You can find the conventions in the
‘REF – Flat Plans’ at the bottom of the coursework folder.
• TYPICAL EXAMPLE: The first sections of this powerpoint: Question 1 covering all three
pages of your magazine in detail.

3. FRONT COVER
My magazine cover is based loosely around NME’s edition featuring ‘The Wombats’, the
house colours I used (white, black, red & yellow) are the same as that used in the NME
magazine but order different when it comes to what is primarily used with me using black and
white as primary and red and yellow as secondary colours.
I think I have a lot of the conventions that are used on most if not all music magazines
somewhere on my front cover, some of the conventions are in different places to that of the
ones used on the NME magazine which I used as one of my research examples. The selling
line is predominantly found along the top of the page to draw the attention of those scanning
across magazine racks but I have placed mine along the bottom so that the top half of the
page is dominated by the masthead, because this is the first issue of the magazine people will
be attracted simply by the new name they see.
I have also kept the background of my cover white and placed lines in between my kickers
which separates them from one another giving my magazine more of a poster look than a
traditional busy punk magazine

4. Banner Quotes
Masthead
FRONT COVER Selling Line
Feature Article
Kickers Caption Menu Strip Plug
Photo

5. CONTENTS
The contents page I created around a mix up of the traditional contents pages created by
NME & KERRANG! Magazines. Within this page I kept to my house colours (White, Black &
Red) but opted to use no yellow as I felt it was effective enough with the use of only three
colours.
The set out of the page is based around the NME style but with little KERRANG! like tweaks,
having the pictures in each quarter of the page gives a lot more room for text rather than a
dominating main article picture that would fill the entire page leaving the text to a more
secondary role.
The use of the dominating red catches the eye of the reader and having that at the top and
bottom gives the reader encouragement to read what is in-between. Having page numbers
and section dividers gives the page a bit more formation and helps the overall set up of the
contents come together, the same can be said for the navigation bars which help the reader
identify what they're looking at and help them find what they are looking for.

6. Features Editorial Section
CONTENTS Headers
Page Numbers
Stand-Out Section Navigation
Quote Header Panel

7. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
My Double Page Spread is loosely based around KERRANG!’s My Chemical Romance
interview, by using black as my primary colours with red and white as my secondary. I have
given the entire page a darker feel giving the impression that the artist either creates quite
dark music or that he isn’t quite the angelic role model he should be.
I used the white for section headers and for the article text to make the text stand out from the
black so that the reader was attracted straight to the contrast of colours. My feature picture
takes a big proportion of the page up, I did this to give the effect that the artist has a very
dominating and controlling personality. The picture also shows him about to smash the text up
with the guitar making the image look a bit more ‘rock’n’roll’.
The colours in my DBS are very similar to the MCR article that KERRANG! put together with
the dark background and white/red writing contrasting with each other to show the genre of
music the magazine is based around (punk/rock/indie).

8. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
Headline/Quote Introductory
Section Header Text
By Line
Feature Picture Pull Quotes
(Who Its By)