The document evaluates how the media product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media forms. The summary is: 1) The layout, design, and styles were copied from existing magazines like NME and The Source, including the masthead, title, and double page spread layout. 2) Only a few fonts were used to maintain balance and professionalism. 3) Quotes and songs referenced hip hop artists and genres. 4) Templates and designs were based on researching real magazine examples to replicate their conventions while tailored to the topic of hip hop music.

1. Evaluation
By Daniyaal Hussain

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have researched into other magazines, such as “NME” and “The Source.” I
have mainly copied the layout for the NME magazines. For example, the fact
that my Masthead is in a large red box and I also used the title for inspiration
since my title is “NRG” which is short for “Energy” something that often
contributes to dance style of Hip Hop. Moreover, I copied the Kicker from a
Source Magazine that used Drake and re-named it the “The Encore Ben-Jie.”
The colours I used were pretty basic, only red and white which is what the
Masthead in “NME” uses, though my mastheads font is white and it remains
in a red box like most magazines. I slightly brightened the picture to hide the
background as it would have fit the model even more. I have only used a bit
of fonts to show professionalism and have limited my fonts to three as too
many fonts do not show balance and often make the magazine look strange.
My fonts are used in a specific way on the front cover as the pull quote has a
much more mature sense of writing whilst the rest of the straplines are bold
and curvy, which is used in most magazines. The Straplines that feature the
artists have quotes underneath them and I had to research about each artist.
Quotes underneath are actually lines to their songs and those songs fit into
the genre of Hip Hop.

3. Front Cover Template
Masthead
Straplines
Kicker
Pull
Quote
Barcode

4. Double Page Spread
Language used in the Double Page spread is much more sophisticated
as grammar and spelling is correct as mature audiences could
understand, however the quotes that are spouted out from my model
show informality. The layout and design are from different magazines
that tend to use the same layout. The layout being one picture on one
page and the actual article is on another page. Since people read from
the left I put the title and picture on that side so that the reader can
automatically look upon the title and see what the article is all about.
Brightness of the picture was enhanced so the background would be
hidden as there were ripples in the screen behind. My double page
spread retains the basic white colour that most of my magazine tends
to show off and the model that the front cover has. The reason that I
chose white was because I was inspired by a magazine that was made
by a person who made their own hip hop magazine and only had a
white background for most of the magazine.

5. Double Page Spread Template

6. Contents Page
The contents page has a very basic layout which explains the quantity of
pages and what the pages actually talk about. I got the general concept from
magazines such as “NME” and “The Source” the same magazines which were
used on my front cover and double page spread. I took one of the content
pages and based it on the design that NME had. The design featured the
model on the right hand side whilst the list of pages were on the left hand
side with small little captions that described that the page talked about. I took
these elements and applied it to my own contents page and I improved it by
making the writing slightly bigger so people can see it and the font suited the
social group I was representing which is “Hip hop.” The colours are the same
as the other I colours I used which is a typical red and white. Language is
formal, no wrong spellings etc. Despite the fact most hip hop magazines use
incorrect spelling I decided not to, but to instead use slang in formal spelling
to honestly make the magazine look more professional. The colours remained
the same since I wanted it to be a trademark to the magazine, something that
readers could easily recognize.

7. Contents Page Template