First question evaluation
- 1. In what ways do you intend your media product to use, develop or challenge forms and conventions? The colours I have chose for my magazine are purple and white. I wanted to continue this theme throughout my magazine. During my planning process I asked a variety of people what colours that would like to see in a magazine. The colour that came up the most was black so I decided to incorporate this in my magazine. I also used a bold font to make the sell lines stand out and all of my sell lines are in capital letters.
- 2. These two mastheads are similar in the way that the font is bold and a bright colour. I added a drop shadow on my masthead to create more of a 3D effect. I wanted the main image to give direct address so she was looking straight at the reader, this would attract the reader to buy the magazine. I also based my models pose on image from ‘vibe’ magazine cover. The outfit that I put my model in I believe suited the genre of the magazine very well and also my model being white and R&B female singers are stereotypically black I thought this challenged the conventions.
- 3. The layout of both my magazine and the example I was getting ideas from are very similar. I decided to have the main image in the middle of the page giving direct address and sell lines around the outside of the image. I had the barcode in the corner of the page as ‘vibe’ magazine had done and the mast head behind the image making the image stand out and appear bigger.
- 4. I wanted to keep a continuous theme of the same colour through out my magazine so I used purple and white text again on a black background. I also believe that the outfit that the model was wearing fits nicely with the colours on this page. I have used a mixture of different font sizes such as capital letters and lower case to make the text stand out. As you can see I have taken several aspects of the example contents page I was working of and used similar things in mine. I decided to have the image positioned to the right hand side of the page and the text on the left side of the page. I also liked the way that vibe magazine had broken up the word ‘Contents’ and displayed it so I wanted to use this in my contents page.
- 5. Again i wanted to keep a continuous theme of the same colour through out my magazine so I used purple and white text again on a black background. I have used a mixture of different font sizes such as capital letters and lower case to make the text stand out. I also used italics on one side of my double page spread. As you can see I have taken several aspects of the example double page spread I was working of and used similar things in mine. I decided to have the image positioned to the left hand side of the page with text behind the image to make the image stand out. I also put righting on the right had side with four images along the bottom like ‘vibe’ magazine have done with there double page spread at the top.