PRESENTATION OUTLINE
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
In order to evaluate my work and compare it to other media products I had to glance at other music magazines such as Q and Kerrang in order to see what to include in my own media product. I gained a great understanding of the forms and conventions included in Q magazine, this was the genre of music magazine that I wanted to focus on so studying a few different issues of Q really helped to enhance my understanding of what to include. In terms of the front cover of my magazine I got my ideas from an Issue of Q with Cheryl Cole on the front of it - It included a close up picture of her which took up about 80 percent of the cover, a small enough masthead in the top left hamd corner which is where I have placed my masthead.
The front cover also included simple coverlines down both sides of it, they were short, snappy and really captured the attention of the reader, this is what I wanted to achieve with my own front cover. I also noticed that a lot of music magazines advertise competitions on their front covers, this is a great way to lure in their target audience and persuade them to purchase the magazine. This is why I chose to include a competition on my own front cover.
My analysis of the contents page, also from Q magazine, really helped to enhance my understanding of the basic layout for a contents page. I learned from this that most contents pages have a regulars column, a features column and also possibly some kind of review or advertisement for their radio station, so I chose to include all of these things in my own contents page. I also realised that most contents pages have the issue number, date and a thumbnail image of the front cover so I chose to include all of these also. I also noticed that the stories have the title of the article in bold then writing underneath to explain briefly what is included. I also included page numbers so articles were easy to navigate.
In terms of my double page spread I wanted to create a very professional sleek look. I had previously seen in other music magazines such as Q that the first page was just an image of the artist who was featured in the article so I took this approach and used a closeup of my model smiling to create a casual look so that it wasn't intimidating to my target audience. I used a report kind of outlook where I told the story of the artist and used quotes from her that she had said i a previous interview I had with her. I also used a long shot image of the model for the second page and used a small simple font so that the writing was casual. I wanted to address my target audience in a friendly way.
