Foundation Production Evaluation Q1

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

~With my contents page, it uses the conventions. It is a very similar layout to other music magazines such as 'Q'. It has the page numbers and a quick summary down the side of the page, like it is out of the way. Next to it, would have smaller pictures with quotations of the bigger stories, again like a quick summary and to catch the readers eyes. Above it, would say that it is the contents page. At the bottom also, is a little section for the 'Editor's Note', just like in the other magazines for my genre.


~Another part that 'uses' other magazines conventions is the title of the magazine. It is - like others - bold and bright, to catch the eyes. It is also straight forward, and easy to remember. I picked the name 'Ultraviolet' as the title of my magazine simply because 1. It is an actual song name of a few singers/bands, and 2. Ultraviolet itself is unique and different, which is why I used it, even though it has a similar layout as other magazines.

~The photos would obviously be different from other magazines, but what it uses is the layout in which they're presented. On the front cover, is one main photo, typically of a famous person. So obviously within my magazine would have made up stars, and the main one being the front cover. What I haven't done, is smaller photos of other stories on the front as some other magazines do, as most of my front cover is different headlines. In the contents like I've said, has the smaller photos of the other stories inside. The double page spread is also like other magazines. It would have one large photo of the same person on the front, but in a different pose. The text would be around it, with little captions from the text dotted around the page in bolder font and different colours, to keep the reader interested before actually reading what the text says.

~Also for the double page spread, it would have the most typing for a headline, than the other stories in the magazine, like others, apart from if other magazines make several different double page spreads for several different bigger stories. This uses the normal conventions of other magazines.

This is a front cover from the music magazine, 'Q'. The other, is mine. They both vary with the layout of the front cover. Some of the similarities include: the photographed person is in front of the magazine title, the story headlines are dotted around the page, they keep to their own colour scheme and that the main headline is bolder than the others.

This is the contents page of the same magazine, and my own. The contents page for Q has much larger photos for their stories, whereas mine are a lot smaller. They both have captions with these, to illustrate further what the headlines are about. A noticeable difference is that in my contents, I have my 'Editor's Not' included within the front page, whereas the the contents for Q, has it on a different page.

Finally, this is an example of a double page spread from Q and my own. I had to do a third page for my work because of the amount of text I'd written, but I believe it has been quite effective.