Draft Evaluation Activity 1

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

To help me develop my idea of a magazine into a real magazine I used a Q magazine cover as my main focus and aim. It includes a similar feel to it, as I am also trying to pick out a colour and use it throughout the cover and the magazine as a whole. I also really like the close up image of Florence. This gives a very powerful and dominant feel to the band and to her. The idea of using the close up of the face and the selecting of the colour and keeping with that colour, is something that I have wanted to do for my magazine since the idea was first put out to us. I liked how the name of the magazine is short and catchy and I wanted to include something similar to that, so people would remember it easily. I have used a similar genre for the magazine. Both of the magazines focus's on the pop, rock and folk side to music and that is what I wanted to incorporate into my magazine-the variety of music. This magazine cover shows a pop side to the magazine and I feel that my magazine focuses on pop music as well due to my front image.    

For the contents page I wanted to make it busy and also allow it to stand out against other pages. I took some of my inspiration from  Q magazine. I liked the big photo and the amount of writing used in the pictures. I have taken that idea of the big image and also the lots of writing idea to give a full contents to the magazine. They have linked the contents to the front cover which is also what I have aimed to do with my magazine contents.

With this magazine double page spread I have taken some inspiration from many different magazines and attempted to put them all together to get an overall double page spread. I have used the columns and the two seperate headings- the main heading and the sub heading. I have then taken the idea of splitting a page into 4 like i have seen several magazines do and used them to display both images and text. I have added my twist onto things with the stripes and the logo on the page as it this is my constant theme throughought along with the colours.