Evaluation question 1In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

By Fleur Gascoigne

My Front cover

Magazine front cover.

Similarities and differences.• The pictures on both magazines take up the

majority of the page, • The picture from the Rollingstone cover is in

black and white focusing more on picture in general and like mine.

• The masthead is at the top of the cover spread across the head of the model, the mastheads are related to the music industry, ‘Rollingstone’ is the name of a band, ‘Billboard’ is an advertising board where music related things are placed on them, specially in New York and my magazine is called unplugged. Like unplugging an amp or a microphone.

• The name of the singer on the front is stated near the bottom of the cover in large letters. The Rollingstone cover has overlapped there letters like I have.

• Billboards magazine had the coverlines down the left hand side of the magazine

• Rollingstone had a puff that overlaps the masthead with another coverline inside

• Billboard has a barcode/date/price at the bottom of the cover.

• Rollingstones cover has a line of writing above the masthead, which is another coverline, however I decided not to but that on my cover because I did not want to make it overcrowded

• Billboards masthead had five different colours in it, and Rollingstone masthead is yellow and outlined in another colour. My masthead is just one colour, I wanted to keep it simple.

• The main colours on my magazine cover were blue, white and black. With my black and white image it made my cover quite dark whereas Billboard have white as there main colour and they have a coloured picture, making the cover look bright.

• I have used different font on my magazine, just to make it a little bit different.

• I have added in the web address of my magazine at the bottom of my cover.

My contents

Magazine contents.

Similarities and differences • My magazine and the real one both have a

large main picture on the right hand side. • A small box with a magazine page number

and title in it on top of the main picture.• Large title saying ‘contents’ on top of a

coloured box, with the date situated on the right.

• At the bottom there Is another picture with a box on top of it and next to that is more pages from the magazine.

• On the left hand side it shows most of the contents pages, there are different coloured boxes with sub headings and situated underneath is are the page titles.

• The numbers are different colours to the page titles.

• The coloured sub titles are situated on top of a different block of colour.

• The title of the pages have a line of bold capital writing stating what the page is about then two lines underneath in normal font which mentions a bit about the page .

• Using the colour grey.

• Q magazine features the colour red.• Q magazines main picture is slightly more of

a close up of the face and only shows a bit of the body where as my picture shows more of the body.

• Q magazine has the website written at the top on the right.

• The bottom small picture has two boys in it where as my only has one girl.

• The numbers on Q magazine contents are red and mine are black.

• Next to the contents number is a line to separate the number and the little title.

• Q magazine contents shows it has more pages than what mine does

My double page spread

Magazine double page spread.

Similarities and differences • The magazines double page spread has

a full picture on the right side of the page, I have chosen to do this with my magazine as well because it shows my photography.

• At the top of the magazine it had the name of the Singer in-between to black lines, I have done this on my magazine as well.

• The magazine starts off with an interview on Katy Perry, in the middle there is a pull quote in larger font then bellow that it goes back into the interview, I have laid mine out in the same way making my double page spread look more like a real magazine.

• Half way down the magazine there is an ‘A’ in larger font, however I have put one at the top instead

• At the bottom of my magazine I have included a page number

• On the right side of my double page spread I have added in my singers twitter name. I have done this because when I looked at other magazines social networking seams to be a main aspect, so I thought I would put it in.

• I have added a caption which is situated on the right page, it says a bit about what the model is wearing.

• the models in the pictures are wearing different clothes

ConclusionIn conclusion I think my product is very similar to a real media products. I based my contents, front cover and double page spread on other pages from Q, Billboard and rollingstone magazines. I took elements from each magazine but changed bits making sure my work looked like the magazine but a bit different. I pushed my worked to the maximum to try and get it to look like real media products, I used most of the elements, developed some of them to make them my own however I think I could of challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product abit further.