In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation questionmagazine

Regarding my magazine, it is clear to see how it develops real media conventions concerning the layout and the theme of the my magazine cover. The theme of the film is a UK drama based in an urban area, but finding a magazine that incorporates the same type of and that also manages to look respectable, was extremely difficult.

The main UK film magazines were Empire and Studio. The common theme in these magazines were that they all had a main character featuring in the main as the cover of the magazine. This is a good marketing tool as it draws people to want to buy the magazine. Especially if it was a character that they recognised. So what I decided to do was to use the main character in my film and to put them AS the front page of my magazine.

I wanted to present my character as being someone that is so extremely glamorous and very known in the acting world. Just like they did in Empire magazine and Studio magazine. To do this I dressed her adequately and fashionably because I knew that is what would draw readers to want to buy the magazine.

Something else that I used in the making of my magazine, was the film title. One of the most common film magazines in the world Is total film. I wanted to use this name for my magazine to make it more recognised, as the name of the magazine is a great marketing tool.

However, the ways in which I challenged real media was with the choice of clothing that my model wears o the front cover. There were not many examples to go by when looking for a magazine of my film genre, so I had to improvise. I wanted my model to look glamorous, so I looked at different glamorous models and actors.

The pictures I found that stood out to me, were of women models and actors being clothed in newspaper. This somehow denotes how famous they are. We wanted our film magazine to be unique as possible and to stand out, so I made a piece of clothing for my model out of newspaper. This demonstrates how we challenged real media conventions as it is unexpected that someone that features in the type of trailer we created would be clothed this way.

Usually film of my theme would not incorporate this type of magazine in any magazine. Many of the films that we looked for inspiration in the making of our film, did not have the budget to feature in other magazines, which made it hard to find inspiration whilst making the film. However, the inspiration that I found was in fact very helpful and I did take aspects of it whilst making my magazine cover.

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