Evaluation Question 3

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 

•Genre is what a something is put under , it could be a type of music , we categorize pop or hip-hop as a genre of music as not all music is the same.

•The general things that come into a magazine , is normal things like for the front cover , you need a masthead, plugs, barcodes and articles in the magazine , normal pages would be a contents page and a double page spread, these are the things you would find in a conventional magazine.

•In magazines they also have generic textual features, narrative, this is the way the text stays consistent throughout the magazine, basic themes, this could be the way you layout your pages or how the magazine has similar colours throughout. Iconography is a easy part to put across because your title would be a icon and would make people know this was your magazine brand.

•The encoder of a magazine tries to understand the target audience so they put a lot of research into it , this means that when they create the magazine they expect the decoder to understand the text and enjoy it , they create the magazine specially for this market and hope they understand it to buy it as money is probably there main reason for selling and making the magazine.

•In my magazine I believe that I conformed to how a usual magazine works, as the encoder I created a text that teenagers would understand , it wouldn’t challenge them as hopefully that would make them buy it, I created an iconic masthead that I have put throughout the magazine so that it would become a recognised brand  almost. I did change the layout on pages and I changed the colours on all the pages to make it more interesting.

•I didn't do anything too different to what a normal magazine would do , I obviously changed things that would attract to my target audience more , but I thought that sticking to the normal formula for a magazine would be better as there is nothing wrong with them in the first place.

 

These are the main types of forms and conventions that go into a magazine , I will look at how I’ve used/not used/changed them into my magazine.

•Masthead- I’ve managed to use this on my DPS, Front cover and contents as I want to create it into a brand so that its instantly recognisable that why its everywhere in my magazine.

•Cover lines -  I’ve also stuck to this as my front cover has got three of them , I think they attract the customer to the magazine if they are interested in it so they are something to keep.

•Cover price – I’ve also kept the cover price in a area which you can see

•Fonts – They are all the same on the front cover , apart from the masthead as its meant to be different , I’ve also tried to use the same font throughout apart from titles.

•Puffs – I added a puff as most people like free things in magazines as it could attract more customers.

•Barcode

•Feature article photo- My feature article photo takes the whole page , so I have not added any other as I don’t need to attract attention to any other photos as this is the main feature article as my front cover.

I have used the form and conventions as I  feel they make a normal magazine , and my magazine isn't trying to be edgy or different its supposed to be something a lot of people would like.