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Rita McArdle

The document discusses how the media product evaluates, develops, and challenges conventions of real media forms. It examines how studying other music magazines like Q and NME helped understand what to include. Key conventions that were adopted include a close-up image taking up most of the front cover, a small masthead, and short cover lines. The contents page layout was also modeled after Q, including columns for regulars, features and advertisements. Double page spreads similarly followed conventions like a close-up image on the first page and long shot on the second, with casual writing and quotes. Overall, the goal was to stick to typical music magazine codes and formats to create a professional look.

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Evaluation Question 1 By Meghan McArdle
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products? • In order to evaluate my work and compare it to other media products I had to glance at other music magazines such as Q and NME in order to find out what to include in my own media product. I gained a great understanding of the forms and conventions included in Q magazine, this was the genre of music magazine that I wanted to focus on so studying a few different issues of Q really helped to enhance my understanding if what to include. In terms of the front cover of my magazine I got my ideas from an issue of Q with Cheryl Cole on the front of it- it included a close up picture of her which took up about 80 percent of the front cover, a small enough masthead in the top left hand corner which is where I have placed my masthead. This is my front cover compared to the cover of Q magazine that I have talked about.
• The front cover also included simple cover lines down both sides of it, they were short, snappy and really captured the attention of the reader. This is what I wanted to achieve with my own front cover. I also noticed that a lot of music magazines advertise competitions, this is a great way to lure in their target audience and persuade them to purchase the magazine. This is why I chose to include a competition on my own front cover. My analysis of the contents page, also from Q magazine really helped to enhance my understanding of the basic layout for a contents page. I learned from this that most contents pages have a regulars column, a features column and some sort of advertisement for their radio or television station. I also noticed that quite a lot of contents pages have letters from the editor so I chose to include all of these things to give my magazine a more professional and real look. I also realised that most contents pages have the issue number, date the magazine was released and a thumb nail image of the front cover in the top corner – I chose to include all of these things in my contents page as well. I also put the titles of the stories in bold to make them stand out and the writing underneath explaining briefly what the story is about in italics, this is a common theme with most magazines. • Here is an example of a typical music magazine contents page beside the one that I have created.
In terms of my double page spread I wanted to create a very professional and sleek look. I had previously seen in other music magazines such as Q that the first page was just an image of the artist who was featured in the article so I took this approach and sued a close up of my artist smiling to create a casual look so that it wasn’t intimidating to my target audience. I used a report kin of outlook where I told the story of the artist and stuck in quotes that she had given to me in a previous interview. I also used a long shot image of the model for the second page and used a small simple font so that the writing was casual and inviting to my audience. I wanted to address my target auidence ina friend mannerism. Over all, I tried to stick to all of the codes and conventions of a basic music magazine in order to make all three of my products sleek and professional looking. This is an example of a normal double page spread from Q magazine alongside mine.

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Evaluation Question 1

  • 1. Evaluation Question 1 By Meghan McArdle
  • 2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products? • In order to evaluate my work and compare it to other media products I had to glance at other music magazines such as Q and NME in order to find out what to include in my own media product. I gained a great understanding of the forms and conventions included in Q magazine, this was the genre of music magazine that I wanted to focus on so studying a few different issues of Q really helped to enhance my understanding if what to include. In terms of the front cover of my magazine I got my ideas from an issue of Q with Cheryl Cole on the front of it- it included a close up picture of her which took up about 80 percent of the front cover, a small enough masthead in the top left hand corner which is where I have placed my masthead. This is my front cover compared to the cover of Q magazine that I have talked about.
  • 3. • The front cover also included simple cover lines down both sides of it, they were short, snappy and really captured the attention of the reader. This is what I wanted to achieve with my own front cover. I also noticed that a lot of music magazines advertise competitions, this is a great way to lure in their target audience and persuade them to purchase the magazine. This is why I chose to include a competition on my own front cover. My analysis of the contents page, also from Q magazine really helped to enhance my understanding of the basic layout for a contents page. I learned from this that most contents pages have a regulars column, a features column and some sort of advertisement for their radio or television station. I also noticed that quite a lot of contents pages have letters from the editor so I chose to include all of these things to give my magazine a more professional and real look. I also realised that most contents pages have the issue number, date the magazine was released and a thumb nail image of the front cover in the top corner – I chose to include all of these things in my contents page as well. I also put the titles of the stories in bold to make them stand out and the writing underneath explaining briefly what the story is about in italics, this is a common theme with most magazines. • Here is an example of a typical music magazine contents page beside the one that I have created.
  • 4. In terms of my double page spread I wanted to create a very professional and sleek look. I had previously seen in other music magazines such as Q that the first page was just an image of the artist who was featured in the article so I took this approach and sued a close up of my artist smiling to create a casual look so that it wasn’t intimidating to my target audience. I used a report kin of outlook where I told the story of the artist and stuck in quotes that she had given to me in a previous interview. I also used a long shot image of the model for the second page and used a small simple font so that the writing was casual and inviting to my audience. I wanted to address my target auidence ina friend mannerism. Over all, I tried to stick to all of the codes and conventions of a basic music magazine in order to make all three of my products sleek and professional looking. This is an example of a normal double page spread from Q magazine alongside mine.