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.

Usually a film of my theme would not incorporate the type of magazine I chose to create. 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.

To back my research I used Total Films as a guide. I tried to use their magazine to help me in the making of my own, there were some particular things that appealed to me when seeing their magazines. One was the way they had the 'total' in the middle of the 'film', that is something I would like to put in the front cover of my magazine. Also they had one or some of the characters that were featuring in the film in the cover of their magazine. I think using that would also be something good to add in my magazine. They also make the picture relate to the film in other ways such as the girl dressed as a cheerleader has something to do with the film. The have colour themes that help the magazine attract people, through the colours it is easy to read what kind of film it will be, this film is going to be something more happy and joyful. I particularly like the magazine layout because it makes the magazine presentable and doesn't

ruin the magazine theme.

This particular magazine is what I preferred because of how the model is not in the centre of the front cover, but is on the side, but that does not take the focus from them, it makes the magazine more subtle and less extravagant and will still attract people to it. The colour theme on the magazine gives away what the film is about, the green shows that it is in a natural place, and I like the way the magazine is so much easier to read. Overall, I wanted to incorporate this type of design and layout into my magazine,

When the model is at the side of the magazine, I feel that it shows how powerful they are, it makes them the centre of the magazine, without them needing to be in the centre. It is also more convenient to place other things on the side.

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. Just like in the total film magazine, the model looks strong. I wanted to use this feature to show how strong she was.

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. I wanted to incorporate something unique into my magazine that speaks the message of the film. I researched various film actress photography to see what unique things they do to their artists. I found a photograph which I extremely liked. It showed how glamorous and famous the actresses were just through what they were wearing. This idea was extremely appealing to me, and I used it in my making of the magazine

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.

Final Magazine

This was my final magazine cover, I was really pleased with the outcome as a lot of the things were thought through like the use of using the image on the side that would advertise the film as well as attract people to go and see it, also the fact that my model was also featured in the film made it better because the inside of the magazine supposedly would have an interview from her. I made the picture look glamorous because I wanted it to be evident that she was a rich famous holly wood actress, and she is coming to act in the typical modern day film.