1. Evaluation question 1: In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
2. When I was making my front cover I used Top of the pops to
influence my layout. How ever I did use We love pop to influence my
logo. As you can see elements of top of the pops magazine have
featured on my front cover, such as the main cover line being
placed over my main image to anchor it. However this is also a
feature of many other pop magazines. Although I have used certain
conventions from this magazine I have also developed some into
making them different. For example the positioning of my puffs are
very different, this is the case because of where my sublines are
based, and the puff is relevant to the subline. It is important to
keep to the conventions of a pop magazine front cover, other wise
the magazine will not appeal to the target audience. All pop
magazines follow very similar convention, but just present them in
different ways. This is what I have done for my front cover. I have
however tried to target both teenage boys and teenage girls with
this magazine. I have use my main colour as blue because this is a
stereotypical boy colour. But then I have also used pink as one of
my secondary colours, to attract the girls. I have a fashion lure
also which will be appealing to girls.
3. As you can see again I have used Top of the pops magazine to
inspire me with ideas of what to do for my contents page. As well
as using top of the pops I also used We love pop as well. As you
can see the clear conventions I have used from top of the pops is
the front cover on the contents page. This was a good feature to
use because it allows me to add more page numbers to my magazine in
a creative way. I have also use the editors note idea as well.
Although I have used these conventions I have changed them slightly
and moved them around the page to suit my flat plan layout. Top of
the pops do not have a main image on their contents though, but I
thought it was important to have one so I added mine in. I have
also added an online puff at the bottom of the page, which tells
the readers they will get money of when singing up to our website.
This is because more and more people are using the internet to read
magazines these days, so I want to broaden my target market.
4. Below is a We love pop double page spread, which had an
influence on some of my decisions. Although the main image on this
page is on the right hand side, when I tried that on my double page
spread it looked out of position. How ever I did follow some of the
conventions used on this DPS. For example I used a picture in the
muddle of my page with text on. I also used a consistent colour
scheme throughout all of my pages that I made. This is so I have a
house style through out the magazine. Double page spreads manly
have block text separated into paragraphs, and I adopted this for
my own. To separate the block text out a bit I placed my image
there, hopefully trying to make the page more appealing to read. We
love pop have also made their article a fun article, which I also
have tried to do, I tried to achieve this by bringing out each band
members personality especially Dexs, because he is the trouble
maker, just like Cher is in this magazine. Unlike we love pop I
added an album section at the bottom of the page, this also
promotes iTunes.
5. Conclusion When creating my Front cover, Double page spread
and Contents page I tended to stick to the conventions that other
pop magazines used. This was the case because there is a very
specific target audience that they target, so if anything changed
dramatically then it wouldnt appeal to the target audience. All pop
magazines are very similar when they structure their pages. The
content is all virtually the same, they just position things in
differently or present things in differently to one another. I also
tried to do this when making my documents. Pop magazines also seem
to use a number of pull quotes throughout their magazines. This was
the reason why I used one on Contents page and DPS.
