Evaluation Part 1

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

I have used continuity by creating house style throughout my product by using the same fonts; I have stuck to the same text through the whole magazine so each page looks like it belongs to the same magazine. I have also done this with using the same colour scheme. I have used the colours red, yellow, and black, this scheme has been carried across all pages so they all belong together. My page numbers also match the contents features so there are no flaws within my product, everything follows on and nothing sticks out of place as being in the wrong place, again so they all fit together nicely. I have also used the same artist on my front cover, contents and double page spread, they are within the same area so it looks like they have been taken in the same photo-shoot, and not over a period of time and had to come in multiple times to get the correct photos for the magazine. This is also so the consumer can pick the magazine up and knows instantly what issue this is, they don’t have to turn it to either the contents to look through the pages, or look through all the articles to find out.  My layout matches conventional magazines as for example: on the front cover the barcode is at the bottom on the right hand side, the title is directly in the middle at the top, underneath a mast head. The cover lines are on both sides in the middle, the title is in bold and nothing on the page competes with it, so it is clear that this is the main thing to look at so it is easy for audiences to see the title without having to search the page for it. On the contents page there are images that are posters within the magazine, there are page numbers down the side next to the article name that goes along with a description of what the article is actually about.  On the double page spread the name of the band is above the artist and there is a sub text underneath the title of the page which tells you a little bit about the band.