This document evaluates the ways in which the author's magazine product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real magazines. The author mimics several typical magazine conventions in their design, including using bold colors and fonts on the cover to catch readers' attention, positioning text and images similarly to other magazines, and including a contents page with multiple columns and a mix of images and text. For double page spreads, the author takes inspiration from most magazines by including a large bold image on one page with supporting text and a smaller image, and varying colors and using borders on the second page to draw readers in. Overall, the author strives to make their magazine look professional by directly copying designs and layouts from real magazines.

1. EVALUATION ON MAGAZINE
By Joseph Bidmead

2. 1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
media products?

3. CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURES OF
MAGAZINES
The similarities I share with conventional magazines is
the eye catching red colour that I have used
throughout. The bold fonts so that people notice it
more. I also have high quality pictures and enough
text present on the cover to make it look professional.
I also have positioned a lot of things in the same
places as what they have on the professional
magazine as I wanted it to be as professional and
appealing as possible. I used the same colours as
what ‘Q’ magazine have used as when walking into
a shop people seem to always notice ‘Q’ as it is
bright and appealing. The positioning of my text is on
the left as this is the side that will be poking out in
shops so people will see it and be able to read them
easier. The reason why I have used a group of people
on the front is because I had a comment that said I
needed to fill in the blank space so instead of going
over the top on writing I decided to use a picture
with more colour and what fills a wider space on the
page.

4. CONTENTS PAGE
I decided to make my contents page
similar to the example beside it. I felt this
would be a good contents page to
copy as it has a lot of pictures as well as
I good amount of text. I feel that the
separation of each page number and
story looks professional so I decided to
use that also. I wanted to use a lot of
text so that the page looked busy and
there wasn’t much blank and boring
parts of the page. I used a lot of
pictures as this shows as well as tells a
lot more stories than if I only had one
single picture on its own.
For my magazine I separated it out into 3 columns as this is
what I have seen that most magazines do. I feel that it makes
it look a lot more neat compared to if I had all writing and
pictures all over the place.

5. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
I have looked at a lot of different double page spreads
and have decided to make mine based on what the
majority look like. I feel that by having a big bold picture of
the one page makes it look like it is jumping out at you and
with text and a second picture in the blank spaces it looks
more professional as there isn’t much gaps. The quote I
have used makes the picture stand out more and makes
you want to read the other page to see what he was
talking about.
On the other page I haven’t just used one colour. I have
used red and black so that it is appealing and red is the
theme of my magazine so using that makes it seem like it is
all more linked together. I have used the black lines at the
bottom and the top as banners and boarders as it
separates them up and makes that text stand out and
draw the reader in. using the frame effect makes the
reader particularly focus on the text in general and what
to read more about it.