evaluation question 1.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

The title of my magazine falls in with the convention as it's one word, also the fact that it is in capital and because of where it is placed, at the top of the page. One of  the reason's I did this was because most of the magazines I looked at were in the same position, and i think it stands out a lot more as if it was at the bottom or down the side it could be quite hard to read. On the front page the layout is quite similar to other magazines I looked at, firstly the image on my front page was the largest object and then had writing around it which quite a lot of magazines do, many magazines either have just one image of either one person or a group of people, other than the title the image is the biggest object as it the most important because people can see what the magazine is about normally just from looking at an image for example my image was a girl, wearing quite a bright 'trashy' top with headphones on so is most likely going to be a music magazine from first impressions. The genre of the magazine is again shown by the image, also the title links into music, and the genres of music is written under the title so the readers will know what genre it is, I saw this on quite a lot of other magazines, however not the genre of music, I liked the writing underneath the title and thought the genre would fit in well. On each page of my magazine, especially the first and second they are linked to music, also their is a blue theme throughout the magazine, this doesn't have any effect on the genre however I did it on each page so it didn't look messy throughout if I used different colours, in many different magazines there are coloured themes throughout them, however they are normally a white background, because I only did three pages of my magazine I used a blue as I thought it fitted in with my font colour theme. My artist is represented by how she is dressed and the pose, she's looking up into the 'sky' which could mean she is looking into her dreams she also looks quite confident therefore you can tell the artist is not afraid, I dressed her in a simple t-shirt, jacket and trousers, the t-shirt was quite dull so I changed the colour and made it brighter. I took over 100 images of my model, with many different poses and camerawork used, I tried different backgrounds, inside and out, and took photo's from above (standing on a bed), from lying down and pointing the camera up and then from waist and eye height. I did many long shops however the image i chose for my final front cover image was from the waist up, I did this so the t-shirt was involved in the image as that stood out and it linked with music, I changed the colours on the t-shirt of the photo however did not edit the photo except for cutting it out with marquee tool. All of my images were close ups, I did this because I think it gives more detail within the image and you feel closer as you can see the facial body language. The image below shows how my magazine has the same forms and conventions of real media products.