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- 1. Media Evaluation Question1 ‘In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?’ Ella Harding
- 2. How my musicmagazine uses conventions of ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine… Both my magazine and the ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine are very bold and colourful. My magazine also uses components that attract a young female audience such as the cover lines used because they involve both fashion and boys; common interests of young teenage girls. My model and the group used on the existing magazine both look happy rather than serious. This is also in order to attract the target audience. I also made sure that all of my cover lines were to the left(as you look at it), to enable consumers to be able to see what’s inside the magazine before even picking it up. This is a common convention found with existing magazines.
- 3. My contents pageand the existing magazine’s contents page both use very girly colours again to attract the target audience. They both also use a few pictures other than the artist/s on the front cover, this is good to show variety to the consumer. My music magazine and the existing music magazine both use different sizes of numbering to highlight the main pages of the magazine. I have also put my pages under particular headings, which I was inspired to do by researching other ‘Top of the Pops’ magazines.
- 4. My music magazinedouble-page spread continues to follow the colour scheme of the rest of my magazine which is a component of the existing music magazine ‘Top of the Pops’. Both my magazine and the existing one uses an interview in the double-page spread. Apart from those points, my music magazine is pretty different to the existing music magazine, I haven’t used the same components of this particular ‘Top of the Pops’. My double- page spread also uses quotes from the interview in and around the actual text. This is a convention that’s used in most informal articles.
- 5. How my musicmagazine develops conventions of ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine… I have made my music magazine less busy because I wanted the focus of the front cover to be on the artist and the name of the magazine. Unlike the ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine, I have left the background white and used splashes of colour to prevent the cover from looking boring. The colours I have used on my front page clash with each other whereas the existing music magazine’s front cover uses colours that are complimentary to each other. I hoped that using clashing colours would make the front cover more eye-catching and unique.
- 6. The development Irealised I had made when I analysed my music magazine against this issue of ‘Top of the Pops’ was that my contents page includes a column by the editor. I think this is an improvement to the magazine because it shows that the editor cares about how the audience consumes the product.
- 7. What I havedeveloped in my double-page spread from the usual forms of music magazines is the colour of the images I have taken. When I researched ‘Top of the Pops’ magazines I realised that a lot of them only used colour images on the double-page spreads. I wanted to make mine unique and therefore decided to use one black and white image and three smaller colour images. Compared to this particular double-page spread, taken from ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine, I have made the layout of mine slightly different too. The existing music magazine has placed the images at the top of the pages and text underneath. I placed the images to the sides and wrote across the middle of the double-page.
- 8. How my musicmagazine changes conventions of ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine… My music magazine has changed a few conventions of a typical existing music magazine. For example, my magazine doesn’t have the artist on the front cover taking up the whole background. I wanted the background to be plain so that the cover lines would catch the attention of the consumer. I also changed the usual convention found in existing magazine that is to make the main cover line stand out the most. I did make sure that my main cover line used the largest font size but, I didn’t want it to take over the front cover because I already used a picture of the main star of the magazine on the front. I thought this made it obvious who this music magazine was going to be focused around so, there was little need to make my main cover line anymore bold.
- 9. My music magazinechanged a very commonly used component found in all types of magazines. My contents page doesn’t include an annotated picture of the front cover. I decided not to use this because I wanted to add in a box from the editor. If I had used both that an the annotated front cover, I would have had very limited space for the rest of my contents. I also thought that this annotation made the magazine look a little less sophisticated and to attract the higher end of my target audience, I needed to add in components of sophistication. I thought that by adding the box from the editor, it made my contents page look less child-like.
- 10. My music magazine’sdouble-page also changes conventions used in existing music magazines. I tried to tone down the bold colours for these pages because I didn’t want my magazine to look too over-whelming. However, this ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine has bright, colourful pages throughout which maybe lowers the target audience. I think that this change made to my double-page spread makes it more appealing to an older audience. The use of monochrome colours against the hot pink looks informal but sophisticated which is quite unique to other music magazines as well as my front cover and contents page. I think this change still entices the same target audience because it still includes the ‘Pop’ genre within it.