My Music Magazine Front Cover

My Music Magazine Contents Page

My Music Magazine Double Page Spread

My School Magazine Front Cover

My School Magazine Contents Page

Media Evaluation Question 1

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

There are lots of different codes and conventions for music magazines. First of all I will focus on the front cover which is the main part of any magazine because it is the first part that people see.

One of the first codes and conventions is that the title is normally one word or one letter ; this means that my magazine is right because my title is just ‘Popular’ which is one word. They then say about the title being positioned top left and full page width, which my title is. The next one is that the largest text is on the front; I have done this because my title is in the largest text of my whole music magazine.

One of the codes and conventions is that the picture should not be smiling because then it conveys attitude, but I am doing a pop music genre magazine which is like a ‘cheesy’ magazine so the target audience are teenagers who would rather buy it if there is a person on the front smiling and with attitude instead of the people on the picture looking mean. Another one of these is about eye contact which is said to convey attitude also, but, as with the last one, because of my music magazine genre the people on my front cover can convey attitude without putting buyers off.

The next one is that there should be one main image and that it is usually a medium close up shot. A medium close up shot is that the picture will have the shot of people being cut off at the waist (showing head, shoulders and above the waist); my front page main picture shows exactly this.

The second part of my music magazine is the contents page. The first code and convention for this is that pictures all have page numbers by them which all of my picture do, apart from the picture which goes with the competition to win a JLS hoodie. The next one is saying ‘use headings to divide up contents’ which I have done for the features and the regulars. One of the codes and conventions about having a main image on my contents page is followed by me using the picture of The Saturdays. Also there are smaller pictures as well which is what the next code and convention is.

Looking at colours, they say that the background should be white or simple which is what I have on my contents page. Also, at the top of my contents page, two of the codes and conventions say that there should be the title of your music magazine on your contents page and also the word ‘Contents’ - I have both of these. For the features and the regulars the order should be page number and then text which is what my features and regulars are like.

The third and last part of my music magazine is a double page spread. The first code and convention is saying that one of the two pages has to be covered by a picture; on my double page spread one page is covered by pictures - I have done a collage as my double page spread image. The next one is that the writing has to start with a drop cap which my writing does and it shows the reader where they should start reading and also it drags the reader in.

I have brief information at the top of the page about The Saturdays which is the stand first. The headline needs to be a new creative headline like mine is: ‘The Saturdays on weekdays’ – this is a play on the bands’ name. The next code and convention is to do with the layout; my layout is right because I have three columns for my story. Also, my headline goes across the two pages like it is supposed to.

Evaluation Question 1 Double Page Spread Screenshot