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

My title headfood, I think is a typical look for a music magazine. The overall look of it is quite messy and quirky. I like the fact that the writing is all uneven and the way the black contrasts to the white.

The strapline 'Indie... Artrock... Classic rock... Electro...' is typical of a magazine, this is of my front page. I like the fact that the strapline background colour is the same colour as front page. This is different to typical music magazines such as NME as normally they have a black background with a brightly coloured strapline such as pink. I feel that mine eventhough, it blends in still attracts the audiences attention I have used the colours red and white to contrast to the black to help this.

The text box is off my contents page. I like the way this contrasts to what the contents is usually shown to be in magazines such as NME or Artrocker. I have kept to my three colour scheme which is red, white and black. I have drawn a large white box and seperated the contents by drawing a thin black rectangle using the rectangle tool on photoshop. I have illustrated the most important part of the contents, the artists by putting their names in red. This is similar to what NME tend to do, they use a lot of black and white and use colours to illustrate the main parts of their text.

The graphic design is of my contents page, I thought this related to my target audience as they are considered to be quite artistic. I also felt it looked good, music magazines such as art rocker tend to use graphics.

The text I have used is generally informal and chatty. This relates to my target audience as they are young so generally tend to have a lower concentration spand or to not tend to understand complex language.




The 'Lily allen takes on the world' masthead title is very similar to mine, however in NME they have used different sizes of font aswell as boxes. I decided against this as eventhough I wanted mine to look quite messy, I felt this was a bit over the top.

The strapline 'New monkeys tunes' is very different to mine, as previously mentioned, NME tends to use bright colours to highlight their main points, I did expereiment with using bright colour contrasted to balck but I didn't like the overall look. I felt that eventhough the strapline is an important part of the magazine, that this took the audiences attention away from the main textual content too much.

The picture of the band is very similar to my double page spread picture, they are both taken outside connoting a natural feel. They both also relate to my target audience by elements such as clothes and hair. The live music picture is also fairly similar to mine which I used on my front page. However, as mine was for my front page, I chose to change it to black and white on photoshop as I felt the lighting was too overpowering and would distract the readers attention. Both pictures have the same focal point and contain one person.

Both my magazine products and NME magazine use white and black boxes to highlight texts. And more often then not NME also uses a contrasting colour scheme such as black to white on large amounts of text.