Music Magazine Evaluation Question 1

Question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

What I did to create my music magazine was to get some influence from a real existing magazine to see how they structure the magazine and what kind of features to attract their target audience, I’ve then base my music magazine on the “Vibe” magazine because it’s a successful magazine because it is a popular magazine because every person who listen to RnB would think of the “Vibe” magazine straight away. In my music magazine is full of convention because I’ve done this because to make my magazine more professional in the genre the magazine is, which RnB it is. One of the conventions that I’ve used in my music magazine on the front page was the masthead. What I’ve done is, I’ve look at all the magazine that has a RnB genre and I’ve look at the masthead and I saw that all the real existing magazine used a san serif font where all the letter’s doesn’t have a flick and it’s big and bold, so I’ve used a San serif font as a convention because it’s also common for a RnB magazine to have a san serif font such like vibe and XXL. I also used a san serif font it stands from my magazine with will attract people attention when they are looking for a magazine and also I’ve used it because it makes my magazine strong and powerful because it’s just looks big and bold. Another convention that I’ve done is the putting artist at the top of the masthead, the reason why I’ve done this is to show what artist are in the in the magazine to attract the target audience.

Another convention that I’ve done with the front cover is that the picture. What I’ve done in order to follow the convention is to take a medium shot, this is a convention because as you can see with other real existing magazine is that all have medium close up or medium shot pictures and I’ve decided to take a medium shot because to keep my music magazine professional. Another convention that I’ve done is that used more that two colours in my front page. I’ve notice that real rnb existing magazine used more than two colours for the front cover and I’ve changed some cover lines and text into red so I’ve more than two colours on my front cover and I’ve also done this to keep my music magazine professional.

Another convention that I’ve done in the front page is using box for a text. The reason why I’ve done this is to also attract people attention because of the red text it stands out from the box. I’ve also used the box to make my music magazine professional because it tells people the audience what is major in the magazine.

 

 

A convention that I’ve done in the front page is too used the “+” sign because it tells the audience that is also feature in the magazine. Another reason why I’ve used the (+) sign is to make my magazine more modern because you don’t want to sell a boring magazine or a plain magazine to your audience.

 

Another convention that I’ve used in a the front page is the most common feature ever in a magazine is the bar code, price of the magazine, date of issue and the website. The reason why I used the bar code is because every magazine has got one to sell. The reason why I putted in the price is because to tell the audience how much the magazine and I made the price red because so it will also attract the customer attention. I’ve putted in the date of issue because my music magazine isn’t about music it’s also about fashion it also tell what season it is and also tells updates the customer with the new fashion trend because every season has a new trend. How ever I’ve not follow the similar convention as the “Vibe” magazine where it’s all put together in a box but i followed where they put it down the bottom of the page.

The conventions that I’ve done in my content page which I’ve got inspired by the “Vibe” magazine is the title of the page, the picture of the model, and the list of features that would be in the magazine. The title of the page convention is something original that I’ve thought of because I didn’t want to copy everything from the magazine but I’ve decided to something more original. What I’ve done is I’ve spitted the word up and made it go side ways instead of going downwards because I was thinking about the space of the content page. The picture of the model is a convention because both of the pictures are a medium close up and I’ve chosen a medium close up for my contents page because most RnB magazine have medium close up. Also the pose of the model is a convention because they both got their hands in their pocket this was done because this to show that they got their hands busy which means they most of the time they are busy with their music career.

The convention that I’ve done in the double page is the title and the structure of the page. I’ve done a similar style as the title of the “Vibe” magazine double page spread but I’ve decided that i wanted to make my title page original by using the colour of the clothes that my model was wearing because the model in the “Vibe” double page spread had the same colour as the title and as you can see the first letter of the paragraph which is the “B” in the “Vibe” magazine it’s the same colour as the title of the double page spread and i decided to do the same because it looked professional cause most double page spread are like that. I’ve done a similar structure as the “Vibe” magazine but instead of doing paragraphs I decided to do columns because I thought it would be more professional for a music magazine.