1. Evaluation question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. When I was making my front cover I used
Top of the pops to influence my layout.
How ever I did use We love pop to
influence my logo. As you can see
elements of top of the pops magazine
have featured on my front cover, such as
the main cover line being placed over my
main image to anchor it. However this is
also a feature of many other pop
magazines. Although I have used certain
conventions from this magazine I have
also developed some into making them
different. For example the positioning of
my puffs are very different, this is the
case because of where my sublines are
based, and the puff is relevant to the
subline. It is important to keep to the
conventions of a pop magazine front
cover, other wise the magazine will not
appeal to the target audience. All pop
magazines follow very similar convention,
but just present them in different ways.
This is what I have done for my front
cover. I have however tried to target both
teenage boys and teenage girls with this
magazine. I have use my main colour as
blue because this is a stereotypical boy
colour. But then I have also used pink as
one of my secondary colours, to attract
the girls. I have a fashion lure also which
will be appealing to girls.
3. As you can see again I have used Top of the pops magazine to inspire me with ideas of what to do for my contents
page. As well as using top of the pops I also used We love pop as well. As you can see the clear conventions I have
used from top of the pops is the front cover on the contents page. This was a good feature to use because it allows
me to add more page numbers to my magazine in a creative way. I have also use the editors note idea as well.
Although I have used these conventions I have changed them slightly and moved them around the page to suit my
flat plan layout. Top of the pops do not have a main image on their contents though, but I thought it was important to
have one so I added mine in. I have also added an online puff at the bottom of the page, which tells the readers they
will get money of when singing up to our website. This is because more and more people are using the internet to
read magazines these days, so I want to broaden my target market.
4. Below is a We love pop double page spread, which had an influence on some of my decisions. Although the main image on this
page is on the right hand side, when I tried that on my double page spread it looked out of position. How ever I did follow some of
the conventions used on this DPS. For example I used a picture in the muddle of my page with text on. I also used a consistent
colour scheme throughout all of my pages that I made. This is so I have a house style through out the magazine. Double page
spreads manly have block text separated into paragraphs, and I adopted this for my own. To separate the block text out a bit I
placed my image there, hopefully trying to make the page more appealing to read. We love pop have also made their article a fun
article, which I also have tried to do, I tried to achieve this by bringing out each band members personality especially Dex’s,
because he is the trouble maker, just like Cher is in this magazine. Unlike we love pop I added an album section at the bottom of
the page, this also promotes iTunes.
5. Conclusion
When creating my Front cover, Double page spread and Contents page I tended to stick to the
conventions that other pop magazines used. This was the case because there is a very
specific target audience that they target, so if anything changed dramatically then it wouldn’t
appeal to the target audience.
All pop magazines are very similar when they structure their pages. The content is all virtually
the same, they just position things in differently or present things in differently to one another. I
also tried to do this when making my documents.
Pop magazines also seem to use a number of pull quotes throughout their magazines. This was
the reason why I used one on Contents page and DPS.
