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

2. Conventions of a front
page
The masthead can be seen at the top of the page
Here is the main image which consists of a whole band with five members
Gives the chance for people to win things
The bar code is at the bottom right corner and
it contains the price with it
Most of the cover lines are present on
the left third of the magazine

3. My front cover
Here is my masthead at the top of the page.
Here are my cover lines which I have put on the left third of
the page.
My main image is large and in the centre of the page.
The main title is large and stands out from the rest of
the page which is conventional of a magazine as it
draws people in.
I have followed the convention of adding the bar code at
the bottom of the page and the price of the magazine is
there with it.
I have put a plus and written the other things included in the
magazine which is conventional of other magazines.

4. How I followed conventions
My magazine has followed some of the conventions of a rock magazine. It
uses a dark colour scheme; the background is grey and there is a red and
grey colour scheme running throughout the magazine. The masthead also
gives my magazine typical conventions of what would be expected the font is
black and the letters have a rough, broken up effect, this is typical of a rock
magazine. Also there is a circle which advertises the things readers have a
chance to win inside. This is also typical of a magazine. At the bottom there
is a section saying ‘plus+’ which is also typical of a magazine from any genre.
The writing at the side of the magazine is also typical of what someone
would expect of a magazine in the left third I have the names of artists and
then a little bit of writing underneath saying what the pages which include
them are about.

5. Conventions of a contents
page
Title is at the top of the magazine
There are titled columns of what is included in the magazine.
There is a main image and smaller images with the page
numbers shown so people can find them.
There is an article at the bottom of the page.
There are adverts about prices people can
win.

6. My contents page
I have also put the title at the top of the page to follow
conventions
I have put titled contents on the page on the left side
There is one main image on the page. This takes up
around a quarter of the page and then in the corner there
is a smaller image which has been cropped out of it
original image.
At the bottom of the page I have written a ‘plus ‘
which I have seen being done in other magazines

7. How I followed conventions
My contents page also follows the conventions of a rock magazine. It has the
numbered pages and contains pictures of the artists which make people want to
read about them. The title is at the top of the page next to the masthead which is
typical of all magazine. The colour scheme also runs through the contents page.
The colour scheme contains red and grey and the names of artists are in a different
front and in the colour red to make them stand out. I think this gives the page a
nice effect and it is not commonly used in magazines so I this way my magazine is
breaking the conventions of a magazine. I have laid out the magazine in a way that
would be expected of a magazine. The list of page numbers is divided into three
different sections; upcoming events, reviews and regulars. After examining lots of
other contents pages I have observed that these are commonly used as the titles of
features in the magazine. The list of features runs down the left side of the page
and on the other side of the page contains pictures of what can be expected in the
magazine and advertisements. These are conventions found commonly in most
magazines.

8. Conventions of a double
page spread
There is one page which is completely taken up with
a picture.
There is a large amount of text in three different
columns
The title is very large and stands out on
the page
The colour scheme is very dark and the page
creates a very dark theme

9. My double page spread
I have made the title very big so it stands
out a lot on the page.
There is a bold font for parts of the text
which are not in the interview
There is a small picture at the bottom of
the page which does not follow the usual
conventions of a magazine
I have used a red colour of font to
represent when the interviewer is
speaking and black font for when the
main character is speaking

10. How my double page spread follows
conventions
My double page spread consists of one main image on the left page,
something common of a double page spread and a smaller image at
the bottom of the right page which not so commonly seen on this
format of double page spreads. On the right page there is a large article
of text in which is an interview about the new tour of a successful
musician who has left is band and ‘gone solo’. The interview is set into
three columns. Everything the interview says is in a red colour and
anything which is not from the interview is put in bold. This is
something I have seen that’s been done in other magazines. The
double page spread stands out from the rest of the magazine. The font
and colour scheme don’t match the rest of the magazine so it makes it
stand out.