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Fleur Gascoigne
Fleur Gascoigne

This document evaluates how a student magazine project uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media products. It finds the project draws from several real magazines in its layout of covers, contents pages, and double-page spreads, implementing many standard elements like mastheads, cover images, and interviews. However, it also makes some differentiating changes like alternate fonts, added social media details, and modified visual placements. Overall, the document concludes the project successfully mimics real magazines but could have pushed further to challenge conventions.

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Evaluation question 1 In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? By Fleur Gascoigne
My Front cover
Magazine front cover.
Similarities and differences. • The pictures on both magazines take up the • Rollingstones cover has a line of writing majority of the page, above the masthead, which is another • The picture from the Rollingstone cover is in coverline, however I decided not to but that black and white focusing more on picture in on my cover because I did not want to make general and like mine. it overcrowded • The masthead is at the top of the cover • Billboards masthead had five different spread across the head of the model, the colours in it, and Rollingstone masthead is mastheads are related to the music industry, yellow and outlined in another colour. My ‘Rollingstone’ is the name of a band, masthead is just one colour, I wanted to ‘Billboard’ is an advertising board where keep it simple. music related things are placed on them, • The main colours on my magazine cover specially in New York and my magazine is were blue, white and black. With my black called unplugged. Like unplugging an amp and white image it made my cover quite or a microphone. dark whereas Billboard have white as there • The name of the singer on the front is stated main colour and they have a coloured near the bottom of the cover in large letters. picture, making the cover look bright. The Rollingstone cover has overlapped there • I have used different font on my magazine, letters like I have. just to make it a little bit different. • Billboards magazine had the coverlines • I have added in the web address of my down the left hand side of the magazine magazine at the bottom of my cover. • Rollingstone had a puff that overlaps the masthead with another coverline inside • Billboard has a barcode/date/price at the bottom of the cover.
My contents
Magazine contents.
Similarities and differences • My magazine and the real one both have a • Q magazine features the colour red. large main picture on the right hand side. • Q magazines main picture is slightly more of • A small box with a magazine page number a close up of the face and only shows a bit of and title in it on top of the main picture. the body where as my picture shows more of • Large title saying ‘contents’ on top of a the body. coloured box, with the date situated on the • Q magazine has the website written at the right. top on the right. • At the bottom there Is another picture with • The bottom small picture has two boys in it a box on top of it and next to that is more where as my only has one girl. pages from the magazine. • The numbers on Q magazine contents are • On the left hand side it shows most of the red and mine are black. contents pages, there are different coloured • Next to the contents number is a line to boxes with sub headings and situated separate the number and the little title. underneath is are the page titles. • Q magazine contents shows it has more • The numbers are different colours to the pages than what mine does page titles. • The coloured sub titles are situated on top of a different block of colour. • The title of the pages have a line of bold capital writing stating what the page is about then two lines underneath in normal font which mentions a bit about the page . • Using the colour grey.
My double page spread
Magazine double page spread.
Similarities and differences • The magazines double page spread has • Half way down the magazine there is a full picture on the right side of the an ‘A’ in larger font, however I have page, I have chosen to do this with my put one at the top instead magazine as well because it shows my • At the bottom of my magazine I have photography. included a page number • At the top of the magazine it had the • On the right side of my double page name of the Singer in-between to black spread I have added in my singers lines, I have done this on my magazine twitter name. I have done this because as well. when I looked at other magazines • The magazine starts off with an social networking seams to be a main interview on Katy Perry, in the middle aspect, so I thought I would put it in. there is a pull quote in larger font then • I have added a caption which is bellow that it goes back into the situated on the right page, it says a bit interview, I have laid mine out in the about what the model is wearing. same way making my double page • the models in the pictures are wearing spread look more like a real magazine. different clothes
Conclusion In conclusion I think my product is very similar to a real media products. I based my contents, front cover and double page spread on other pages from Q, Billboard and rollingstone magazines. I took elements from each magazine but changed bits making sure my work looked like the magazine but a bit different. I pushed my worked to the maximum to try and get it to look like real media products, I used most of the elements, developed some of them to make them my own however I think I could of challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product abit further.

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  • 1. Evaluation question 1 In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? By Fleur Gascoigne
  • 4. Similarities and differences. • The pictures on both magazines take up the • Rollingstones cover has a line of writing majority of the page, above the masthead, which is another • The picture from the Rollingstone cover is in coverline, however I decided not to but that black and white focusing more on picture in on my cover because I did not want to make general and like mine. it overcrowded • The masthead is at the top of the cover • Billboards masthead had five different spread across the head of the model, the colours in it, and Rollingstone masthead is mastheads are related to the music industry, yellow and outlined in another colour. My ‘Rollingstone’ is the name of a band, masthead is just one colour, I wanted to ‘Billboard’ is an advertising board where keep it simple. music related things are placed on them, • The main colours on my magazine cover specially in New York and my magazine is were blue, white and black. With my black called unplugged. Like unplugging an amp and white image it made my cover quite or a microphone. dark whereas Billboard have white as there • The name of the singer on the front is stated main colour and they have a coloured near the bottom of the cover in large letters. picture, making the cover look bright. The Rollingstone cover has overlapped there • I have used different font on my magazine, letters like I have. just to make it a little bit different. • Billboards magazine had the coverlines • I have added in the web address of my down the left hand side of the magazine magazine at the bottom of my cover. • Rollingstone had a puff that overlaps the masthead with another coverline inside • Billboard has a barcode/date/price at the bottom of the cover.
  • 7. Similarities and differences • My magazine and the real one both have a • Q magazine features the colour red. large main picture on the right hand side. • Q magazines main picture is slightly more of • A small box with a magazine page number a close up of the face and only shows a bit of and title in it on top of the main picture. the body where as my picture shows more of • Large title saying ‘contents’ on top of a the body. coloured box, with the date situated on the • Q magazine has the website written at the right. top on the right. • At the bottom there Is another picture with • The bottom small picture has two boys in it a box on top of it and next to that is more where as my only has one girl. pages from the magazine. • The numbers on Q magazine contents are • On the left hand side it shows most of the red and mine are black. contents pages, there are different coloured • Next to the contents number is a line to boxes with sub headings and situated separate the number and the little title. underneath is are the page titles. • Q magazine contents shows it has more • The numbers are different colours to the pages than what mine does page titles. • The coloured sub titles are situated on top of a different block of colour. • The title of the pages have a line of bold capital writing stating what the page is about then two lines underneath in normal font which mentions a bit about the page . • Using the colour grey.
  • 8. My double page spread
  • 10. Similarities and differences • The magazines double page spread has • Half way down the magazine there is a full picture on the right side of the an ‘A’ in larger font, however I have page, I have chosen to do this with my put one at the top instead magazine as well because it shows my • At the bottom of my magazine I have photography. included a page number • At the top of the magazine it had the • On the right side of my double page name of the Singer in-between to black spread I have added in my singers lines, I have done this on my magazine twitter name. I have done this because as well. when I looked at other magazines • The magazine starts off with an social networking seams to be a main interview on Katy Perry, in the middle aspect, so I thought I would put it in. there is a pull quote in larger font then • I have added a caption which is bellow that it goes back into the situated on the right page, it says a bit interview, I have laid mine out in the about what the model is wearing. same way making my double page • the models in the pictures are wearing spread look more like a real magazine. different clothes
  • 11. Conclusion In conclusion I think my product is very similar to a real media products. I based my contents, front cover and double page spread on other pages from Q, Billboard and rollingstone magazines. I took elements from each magazine but changed bits making sure my work looked like the magazine but a bit different. I pushed my worked to the maximum to try and get it to look like real media products, I used most of the elements, developed some of them to make them my own however I think I could of challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product abit further.