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

2. • Before producing my front cover, double page spread and contents
page, I had a brief idea of what my magazine would look like, this
was mainly because I had looked at different examples of R&B
magazines and preferred some to others. The types of things I
would include, to make sure my magazine was kept conventional,
are shown below and these could also allow me to challenge and
develop my ideas:
• - The masthead on my front cover
• - Bursts or splashes
• -Teasers
• - Three colour themed rule
• - Sell lines
• - Main image dominating the front cover
• -Fashion extras
• - Bar code and price
• -Email address
• - Colloquial language
• - Interview
• - One page on the double page spread, which was mainly my model.

3. FRONT COVER.
On the front cover, I have followed conventions by using a masthead, teasers, three coloured scheme
rule, sell lines, main picture dominating the page, fashion extras, bar code, price and the email
address.
I made sure aused a main image
Here is I picture of my front cover and the example I wanted to base mine on: Using a sell line at the top of the cover
of a female, as it is used as a keeps conventions here as many other
sex appeal for males to look at magazine do it as well, but I also
and read about, which invites developed it, by using POP/Hip-Hop
them more to buy the magazine. artists as well, as some people will get
This is also very conventional for them confused between the two
my R&B based example. different typed genres.
I used a boost here to attach readers to
I made the models head cover the mast
the main model. This was purposely
head, to keep conventions as
done, as she is the most important
thing on the page, also because my
I have also added in extras like a teaser
double page is all about her. This was
which says there's a secret quest who
also done on my R&B example so I
speaks and strips. This develops
thought it was important to do it to
conventions as the R&B example that I base
keep it conventional
mine on, didn’t do this, but it puts the
I used a sell line here to keep readers on edge.
conventions and positioned it above
the main models name, as readers I kept conventions on my models pose, as
would know it was about her. I wanted to make sure that she looked
sexy and seductive, by putting her hand
I made sure I include a price and a on her hip and looking very curvy- this
bar code, which was positioned at would attract a big audience!
the fair bottom left hand corner. This
was so my buyers could purchase When it came to producing the
the magazine and to show them how mast head, I want to make sure it
much it is. However, I am challenging took up at least a quarter of the
conventions here because most of page, as it is one of the most
the examples I seen had positioned I have challenged conventions here as mostly important things on the cover,
in different places but I think it looks all the examples that i researched had models but also mainly other R&BG
better here on my front cover. that were half dressed to attract their readers. magazines do this as well.

4. Here is my front cover and beside it is the R&B example that I liked and wanted to base mine
one. I wanted to keep to conventional idea as much as possible, mainly because I hadn’t of
seen a music magazine other than POP and ROCK, in the UK and as my example was based
in the United States, I didn’t want to develop or change much, otherwise ill break conventions.
I am going to indelicate the types of things I did to keep conventions, in relation to this
example. However, the main thing that I couldn’t do was display the background and the title,
in the same way the example has, which I was really disappointed about.
Front cover Example
.

5. Double Page Spread
When it came to making my double page spread I had in mind already that I wanted a main
picture on one page, then my interview on the other. I broke up the questions and
answers using a different
I also wanted to keep colour, which linked within
I Tried containing a fold in the middle of
the three colour scheme the three colour scheme
the page to split the image and interview
rule on the double page rule. However, the example
up, wish also keeps conventions with the
spread as well, to keep that I based my spread on
example R&B magazine I based mine
conventions didn’t contain an interview so
on.
it didn’t do this, so I
developed conventions.
I made sure the models
name was big and bold,
so the audience could see
who the interview was
about. The example that I
based mine on also did
this.
When researching R&B magazines, I came across
they put quotes in the middle of the page to display
what the model had said- I really liked this! So used it
in my spread to attract the audience to certain quotes
and give them hints into what she talks about. This
also linked to keeping conventions.

6. Here is my double page spread and the R&B example that I used. Again, I wanted to keep as many
conventions as possible, so none were broken. However, my example magazine did not do an
interview, it was a real life story, although I didn’t want to do this so i tried to develop conventions and
look at over examples that displayed an interview. The ones I did see, did follow my idea of breaking
up the questions and answers using colours so I continued to do this as my own idea. I am now going
to indicate, again, the things I did to keep conventions or liked the idea of what the example had.
My double page spread Example
Text boxes in columns-
same thing.

7. Contents Page
For my contents page, I wanted to keep basing it on another R&B example. However, the one I
did want to base it on was very confusing as I think it had three pages worth of contexts so I
couldn’t do it this as it would have been very time consuming. This therefore meant I had to try
and fit as much on the one page as possible, but I did have to miss some bits out. However, here
below is my contents page:
I kept the same design of
Shortened my mast
title, to kept conventions,
head title to ‘B’ to
however I changed the
feature on the contents
colour to develop it and make
page, mainly because
it look a bit different.
the example magazine
did so, but I also made
I was really unsure whether to
sure the model had
use this font, mainly because its
some of her body over it.
more aimed at a male gender.
However, the example I was
basing the page on did this so I
thought I would just do it to
make it conventional to that
example.
Carried on using a
To keep conventions
teaser, to persuade the
with my example
reader to read that
magazine, I added what
specific story. This is
the model was wearing
also something I
and where it was
continued doing to kept
brought, also I added in
this page conventional.
who styled her hair and
who did her make-up
which was a Used the same model as the
development of front cover and double page
conventions. spread, however used a picture
with a different pose to make
the magazine less boring.

8. Here is my contents page and the R&B example that I based it on. With this piece of work i did
purposely try to follow as many as conventions as possible because I couldn’t research many content
pages as there weren't many at all. I am again going to indicate the things I have concentrated on and
looked at, in order to keep my contents page conventional

9. Overall
Altogether, I think I have worked well in order to keep as
mainly conventions as possible on my front cover,
contents pages and double page spread. However, I
could have done more to develop and challenge
conventions but I was worried the outcome of doing that
wouldn’t link back to an R&B magazine.