Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Evaluation Question 1

In what way does your Media Product use, develop or change forms and conventions of real Media Products.

The way in which my product used the conventions of a real magazine is because the design is based around other magazines of its style such as: NME and Kerrang. I have used various articles to refer to styles I have included in my magazine to create it. The front cover I have created has many features and conventions that would be included in a professional magazine such as:

FRONT COVER
  • Mast Head
  • Barcode
  • Date/Issue Number
  • Sell Lines
  • Main Sell line
  • Banners
  • Main Image
  • Price

As you can see in the above picture, I have included these elements for example on the Left Side at the Top I have included the magazines Mast Head, this has the magazines name on it (K-Rock). Other features include banners at both the bottom and the top of the article which include bands that are featured inside the article.
Also we have a main sell line: "Red Tuesday Return!" and below sell lines that include the following:
-Exclusive 2 page Interview
-Our top 10 local acts of 2013
-2 Free limited edition posters

The main image includes the front man (Brandon Smith). At the front of the group followed by the drummer (Thomas Spence) and then (Ciaran Howe-Hartley) this is a typical style you would find in a magazine.

At the bottom right hand corner we have the bar-code which includes next to the it the magazines issue number; and with this being the first ever issue there is a small tab on the top right hand corner to label it the "first issue".


The way my contents page uses the conventions of a real magazine. Is because





This is my magazines contents page, the theme of the page is that related to the magazine NME it has a similar style with minimalist features using only the colours black and white as the text and background. I have used images I have sourced myself from photo shoots in and outside of college. I have also added an editors note and 2 custom designed album covers relative to the band I have featured in my article. However I have not included page numbers on every story in the magazine (only on the main articles). I have used various texts on the page that I have sourced from the internet.