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

There are many similarities with Q's amagzine front cover and my magazine front cover. For example we have both used a Red boxed masthead and used what font for the masthead also they are both recognizable mastheads which means the readers are able to easily recognise the magazine. we both have plan white backgrounds which enables more room for cover lines. The main cover lines on both magazines stand out than the others, they are both covering the artist image on the cover and are a different colour to all the the other cover lines. also the both a speech from the artists for taglines. The cover images are similar in a way as well as, there is only one person form the band modeling on Q magazine and is showing their genre of music mainly through what he is wearing, whereas on my magazine, there is also one person featured from the band on my front cover and you can tell the genre of music through what she is wearing. Q amgazine has put its date and price with in the box of its barcode which is what magazinse usually do, however I have put them seperate by having the barcode on its own inthe bottom right corner and price and date with in the box of the masthead. Therefore I have challenged that and created my own way of laying them out. The above examples all use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

Looking at my magazine then looking at these magazines above you can see clear similarities with all of them. I can see that 'Overtone' uses many forms and conventions that are seen in real magazine media products. My main cover line is the name of the artist featured on the cover image, it is bold text and bigger than all the others with the colour used contrasting against the plain white background, this element can also been seen on some of the covers above and in othe real magazines.  I noticed they all have the colour red or blue on the cover, as red is a bright vibrant colour which will catch the reader's eye, therefore my cover links as I used red on my cover as i know it will brighten it up and make it less blank from the white background.

 

There are some similaraties wiht The Fly's magazine contents page and my own. Both contents pages have a similar lay out of the whole page with the contents under the image and title at the top with a clean simple background. Also both magazines have a smaller version of the masthead that would have previously been seen on the front cover, this allows the readers to still see the masthead and recognize the magazines when they read the contents page. however there is a contrast between the main images the moodel on The Fly is looking away form the camera where as mine is looking directly at the camera. But both of the models used on the contents are being passive. In addition, we both have a similar contents both layout and font, the numbers are bigger and bolder than the texts, howver the only difference is that I have put a red background behind my contents to break up all white space. The above examples all use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
 

 

There are lots of similarities between NME magazine double page spread and mine. We both have a similar layout to each other with the image on the left and the articles on the right. We have both put the artists name as the title of the article as well as put it in a boxed backgound in the colour of our colour scheme and bold text with an interesting font that is bigger than the rest of the text with in the article. we both also have a subheading with gives a feel of what the article is about. The layouts of the articles are similar as they are both divided into columns with a drop letter to enhance the text and a pull out quote to make it look more professional and break up the text.The above examples all use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products.