1) The document discusses how the author's magazine product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. It examines the structures and features of magazines like mastheads, images, and text. 2) The author aimed to include the key features of conventional magazines in their own magazine, such as bright colors, similar amounts of text, and high quality images. 3) Details are provided on design choices for the magazine cover, contents page, and double-page spread to align with conventions like using pink colors, eye-catching text, multiple images, and maintaining a consistent color scheme. The goal was to appeal to the target audience of 11-16 year old females.

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

2. Structures of magazines…
I have included some examples of music
magazines. As you can see the mast head is
the boldest title on the page so it stands out,
the other most common features are the main
image.
The similarities that my magazine shares with these
conventional magazines are the bright colours and
using the same colour scheme throughout. I have
mostly the same amount of text and also a high
quality image.
After noticing the main features on
conventional magazines I decided to
make these features the main features
on my magazine as well.

3. Annotated front cover
Masthead –
Bright and Bold masthead
with a strong colour to
attract attention.
Price and date of publish-
Informs you when magazine is
published and how much it will cost.
Cover Lines -
Big and bold writing which
catches attention, especially
with all the writing being in
capitals. The word
‘RYTHMIX’ is also in capitals
and is a bright yellow colour
with a bold black outline.
Main story (double
page spread) –
One of the boldest and
biggest cover lines on
the page. Is a bright
bold colour, which is
also the same colour as
the masthead. I put a
yellow outline on the
text to make it stand
out even more.
Competition –
Made the box a bold
yellow colour with black
text to make it stand
out.

4. Front cover inspiration…
My target audience is 11-16 year old
females, therefore my magazine
needed to be ‘girly’ and ‘pretty’ in
order to appeal to this age group.
Therefore it was important that I
made right decisions about the
colours, text and images.
I mainly chose different shades of
pink as I think this is one of the most
feminine colours.
I also made sure that for my main
image I had a female model, I
needed her to look girlie and want to
attract people to buy the magazine.
Therefore I made sure that she was
wearing makeup and bright lipstick
with a very light pink and white
outfit. I also made sure that she was
making direct eye contact with the
camera, so it gives the effect that she
is looking at you, which captures
peoples eye contact.
Typical conventional teen
magazines have inspired
my magazine cover. They
always have teenage and/or
young people for the main
images this is done so that
it attracts the teenage age
group that they are trying
to attract.
The Bliss magazine that I
looked at for inspiration
was aimed at young
teenage girls, although
there magazine is based on
celebrities, fashion ,
beauty and teenage
problems and issues.
Therefore when I was
designing my magazine I
had to think carefully
about how to make it more
into a music magazine.
Like the ‘Top of the Pops’
magazine.
I knew that I definitely
needed to include lots of
bright and eye catching
colours and text and also
overcrowd the page with
text and have at least 3
pictures on my cover as this
is commonly done in all
teenage music magazines.

5. Contents page
I have tried to keep the similar features
of a conventional music magazine
contents page, such as this bliss
contents page. I think the bliss
magazine was good to look at to
influence my designs because I think
the way it visually looks appeals to 11-16
year old girls.
There are 6 images on the page, with
one of them being a lot larger than the
rest which I will include on my
magazine and use a young girl to appeal
to this age group again. I have tried to
keep a pink colour scheme throughout
as this links in with my front cover
colours.
I kept the text at the top of the page bigger as this shows what's in the
magazine as I didn’t want to make the larger amount of text the
biggest as I wanted the images to stand out more as this is commonly
done in conventional music magazines.

6. Double Page Spread
The double page spreads I looked at, such as Bliss and Top Of The
Pops.
To influence
my ideas for
my own double
page spread, I
made certain
that I would
look at a range
of different
teen music
magazines.
I noticed that they all have at least two pictures on
the double page, parts from the main story made
bold, bright colours and a running colour scheme.
By keeping the same
colour scheme that I
used on my cover
and contents page.
I tried to keep the same conventional design of other teen music magazines
Selecting certain bits of
text to stand out and be
bold. This gives little
snippets and attracts
attention.
I made sure that I used more
than one picture as this is
done a lot in teen magazines
and it keeps the page looking
eye catching and interesting