Magazine Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions

of real media products

Front cover similarities

The mastheads on both magazine are both bold, black and white and have a similar style font which represents the indie genre well.

Both images slightly cover the masthead which makes the magazine more interesting to look at and most indie genre magazines do this.

Each magazine will have a bar code, but it is normally very small, and in the bottom corner of the cover as its not very important for the reader.

Magazine gave a variety of sell lines on the magazine which tells the reader what will be inside the magazine to attract their attention and hopefully buy it.

Some sell lines will either be around the image of underneath the image.

Sell lines will be shown in different colours. In most indie magazine there is normally three colours, this will attract the reader. The colours also represent the genre of the magazine as they are normally purples, blacks or reds. This are quite darker more depressive colours compared to pink in a pop magazine. Therefore in my magazine I have three colours consisting of red, purple and black.

Contents Page Similarities

My image is similar to the real media product example I have used from the magazine Kerrang!. I have used and challenged the image as the models are quite similar looking, but the angle and sizing of the image has made it my own. I prefer the models direct eye contact in my image as it will attract the reader immediately.

I have used and challenged Kerrang’s contents page, I have used the box of colour around the heading, another convention I have kept is the layout, everything is in line and has the same amount of space.

I have challenged the magazine by putting the numbers after the text, also by putting one of the heading and text slightly to the right as it looked more appealing.

Double Page Spread Similarities

The images in my magazine and the real media product I have used are similar by the use of a backdrop, and the facial expressions and poses/attitude of the models.

I have used conventions of the magazine by the colour schemes of the magazine have the same idea of black and white with colour added to it.

I have challenged the double page spread as my magazine has more images added to it.

I have used

I have used and challenged the convention of the example magazine. For example the main images are similar as they are of a similar aged boy band, I have challenged the convention by taking my photo using a background which I think draws more attention to the band on the cover as there isn't a busy background to distract you.

I have also challenged the columns of text used, more magazine go along in rows where as mine goes across.