Evaluation question 1

In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products?

All three of my media products use and develop forms and conventions of real media products.

I did this so as to make each product believable and authentic looking without making it exactly the same as existing magazines.

Before even starting my planning I looked into the codes and conventions of everything I would be producing to allow me to make decisions about which conventions to adhere to and which to challenge.

Front Cover

My front cover takes inspiration from ‘The Best of Norfolk’ magazine. I followed the codes and conventions of this magazine as I liked the layout as it was simple. The main convention unique to this magazine that I chose to follow was the line of images along the bottom of the page. I chose to use this as It was enticing and drew attention to the features of the magazine. The Bold masthead was a consistent feature across all the magazines that I researched as it stands out and engages the reader.

Contents Page

For my contents page I took inspiration from a copy of Time Out magazine. I kept the style similar but the main features such as the images and text were significantly different. However I challenged the convention of having bright colours by keeping

the colour scheme grey, blue and white. Like the time out cover, I included a section of ‘regulars’ and a comment from the editor which allows the reader to feel a personal connection to the magazine.

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