Evaluation Q1
- 1. Q1. In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? I took some ideas from real music magazines and put them into my own music magazine. In my research and analysis of real magazines the two main magazines that I focused on were Q and Vibe. The reason for this was because they are both Pop magazines which is what I’m doing. The things I took from Q and Vibe were the codes and conventions that they both used and also the house styles that they both followed. From looking at the two magazines I was able to apply these things into my own magazine, I was able to look at the styles that suite the magazines.
- 2. I love how the main focus is the picture, its so powerful and it real captures your attention even before you look at the the rest of the front cover, I took note of this and put it into my magazine by only using one main picture on the front cover. The circle is another thing the Q have used to draw people to the magazine Because it stands out to rest of the front cover. I wanted to incorporate this into my magazine so I put the oval on the front cover, I think it also makes the front cover look a little bit more exciting with out being to ‘busy’. The mast head Is very simple and plain which I like, it think that it makes the front cover look very elegant. with my masthead even though its not just one letter I still think it looks Elegant and simple, which was the look I was going for.
- 3. With the contents pages I took note of how they made the house colors flow through the magazine, in my magazine the house color is the pink stripes that run through the magazine. I liked the way that Q set out there numbering of pages and also the way that they’ve delivered their information. So I tied this in with my magazine, but instead I used white blocks to make it stand out and it also tied in with my front cover. With the Pictures I wanted to make my pictures stand out as much as possible so I looked at the way that Q put a border around there pictures and took that and used it in my pictures both on the contents page and the double page spread.
- 4. I LOVE THIS! I love the way they’ve taken a quote form the interview and blown up like this! I used this in my own magazine because I think its so clever and its also so powerful, I love the way that it captures your attention it makes you want to read the rest of the interview, just because of that one quote. The picture is also very bold and it stands Out well and its in keeping with the look of the page, her clothes fitted the bold quotation, I like the way that it all flows and gels together, I tried to incorporate this into my own double page spread, I wanted the pictures to stand out so I took two separate pictures of the band members to break it up a bit.
- 5. One of the things that I took from Vibe was the way that the picture over lapped the Masthead I really like the way they’ve done this. The one thing that stood out to me was the bold writing down to side of the picture, and also how it varies in color. It really draws you into read the different articles. I love the banner at the top of the magazine it stands out. I also think that it breaks up the front cover a little bit. The thing I love about vibe is that it’s so simple yet its so powerful at the same time, this is why I took so much inspiration form the magazines, I used some elements in my magazine also. For instance I tied in the banner at the top but instead I put it in my contents page, and I also used the bold writing down the side to attract people’s attention.
- 6. The first thing that caught my eye about Vibes contents page was how they’ve broken up ‘contents’ into three pieces and stacked them up on top of each other, I loved this, however I just kept my ‘contents’ simple and plain as I thought I was more in keeping with the style I was going for. I like the way they have put the big V Behind the main picture and the features. Like the front cover they’ve only used one picture, I wanted to incorporate this into my own magazine but I ended up putting two pictures in.
- 7. I like how powerful vibe make there double page spreads, unlike Q they’ve used quite a few pictures, but only one has been blown up and been put in color, I wanted to do this in mine but I ran out of space. I like the way that the black and white theme is broken up by the blue writing my double page spread is very colorful but I took it from vibe to mix up the colors.