The document provides an evaluation of the student's media product, a music magazine. It summarizes how the magazine uses conventions of real magazines in its front cover, contents page, and double-page spread. This includes including things like prices, dates, logos and layouts that real magazines use. It also discusses changes made from initial drafts in the planning process and how the final product developed some elements differently than initially planned.

1. Evaluation
Rina Bansal

2. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
Front Cover
Headlines
Masthead
Cover lines
Main cover line
Barcode, issue date & price
Main Image which
anchors the main cover
line. Also the model
stares directly into the
camera
My front cover has included many conventions of a real music magazine cover. I have included a price tag, barcode, date and issue
number, which are essential to a magazine cover. As well as this, I have used the ‘magic C’ rule for the layout of the magazine cover. I have
included a flash in the corner of the magazine, which shows more advertisement. There is only one image used here, which draws more
attention to the mainly focused article. The medium close-up shot of the model also is effective as it does not overcrowd the cover. Also,
the model is staring directly into the camera to grab the readers attention. I have also used the ‘drop-shadow’ effect and used ‘Edwardian
Script ITC’, for the main cover line to make it stand out more from the page. The title of the magazine also overlaps the main image.

3. Contents Page Contents title
Issue date
Cover line title
Page reference in
the image
Images of artists’
Page references with some
information on the page
Extra information about
events and more about
the articles- some page
references
My contents page also contains conventions of a real contents cover. I have included the issue date underneath the main title, as well as
using the same font style for the contents title, to show continuity. I have included a ‘top 10 UK charts’ to portray further that this is a
music magazine, but also to inform the reader of the ‘latest music hits’ that are popular- I have also categorised them. I have used only
two images, which I have edited, to show that the main focused article is about the artist within the image. To anchor this idea, I have
made the page reference with information on the article, in a larger font size compared to the others. I have included an extra section,
which is bordered to make it stand out from the page, where is gives more insight on what else is in the magazine. It includes a
competition to interest the readers. The colour scheme of the page also show continuity to the front cover, however I have added more to
make it slightly different so it would not appear boring.

4. Double-Page Spread
Magazine logo
Main focused image
overlaps the content
Page numbers
Main title of the article
columns
Grab quote
Extra advertisement
Tells us who wrote the article and The website of the magazine
photographed the images
My double-page spread is an interview with an artist. It is written in columns and includes a ‘grab quote’ of what the artist has said. The
‘grab quote’ wraps around the text and is highlighted as it is in a different font colour to make it stand out. The artists name is in a
different font style and colour to make it stand out more, as well as ‘best selling acoustic single’ to show that they are the important part
of the article title. The main image also overlaps the decoration of the 3 lines, and the text wraps around the bottom of the image, which
makes the image more or less stand out. This image is purposely focused on as the artist is looking directly at the camera smiling, which
would instantly build a relationship with the reader and gives off a positive atmosphere. Each of the 3 images have a different border,
however the same effect (to show continuity), to make the page more outstanding from the others. The page numbers are also included.
The colour scheme of blue, white and grey is consistent with the front colour and looks more professional.

5. Planning
Before I created the music magazine, I had planned out my designs and information by
carefully sketching some drafts of the production along with annotations of the colour
schemes and font size, style and colour.
Throughout the development of the magazine however, some of the designs had changed
as these drafts were only a rough outline of the magazine. For example, the draft for the
contents and double page spread, the placement of images and the layout of the page have
been changed slightly.
As well as this, the article for the double-page spread had also been planned out on a
Microsoft Word document. This was to ensure that it was suitable for the content. We then
imported the article from the word document into the ‘InDesign’ document (which was the
software I used to create the double page spread).
The Drafts: