Evaluation- Question 1In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Front CoverMasthead

Flash

Tagline

List of bands

A quote from the main article

Main image

Poster

Anchor text

Masthead

Looking at some of the Mastheads of the magazines I researched, I found the font tended to be in sans serif font in either black or red. The sans serif font in capital letters and in bold attracts the eye of the reader even more, to make it stand out on the page.

Main Image

The main images of NME and Q Magazine tends to be a close up, although is not represented here apart from on the cover on NME.

The image has direct from of address, shown in all 3 covers, to create a personal relationship with the audience.

List of bandsBoth Q Magazine and NME chose to feature a list of bands on the front covers with a ‘+’ sign to tell the reader what else is in the magazine, and create hermeneutic tension.

Therefore, I chose to feature the same list with the ‘+’ sign.

Flash

The use of the flash is used by Kerrang! and Q Magazine to mention competitions, reviews, etc with the use of bright red to make it look bolder.

With this in mind, I chose to create a flash with the line ‘UK’s GREATEST TALENT SCOUTING MAGAZINE’ to promote the magazine.

Poster Kerrang! and NME feature posters on the left side of their front covers with bold lettering. Both contain square-shaped snapshots of the posters.

Instead, I decided to keep the poster full-size due to only have one poster, and keeping it larger in size makes it more noticeable on the page. However, the poster is on the left side of the cover.

A Quote from the main article

All 3 of these magazines took a direct quote from the main article, which is featured on the cover and placed it on the front cover near to the figure of the celebrity in the image. Sometimes it is on top of the image and sometimes next to the image.

Similar to NME, I chose to place the quote over the top of the image, under the band name in the centre, so it is the second thing the reader sees after the name of the artist.

Contents Page

A note from the editor

List of featured contents

A placement of the masthead logo on the bottom of the page

A snapshot of the main article

The poster featured on the front cover

Images of the other artists in the magazine

Issue number

A page number

Issue number

Both Kerrang! and Q Magazine contain an Issue number on their contents page, something I chose to do.

This number lets the reader know how long the magazine has been going and keeps them up to date.

Snapshot of the main articleKerrang! and Q Magazine places screenshots of the articles further into the magazine on the contents page. Opening the front cover, the reader can look at what the article might contain, building hermeneutic tension, unable to see the article properly so encourages the reader to buy the magazine to read the article.

List of featured contentsAll 3 magazines contain a list of contents, although Q Magazine and Kerrang! has a more detailed list. It gives slightly more information about the articles than the front cover.

I modelled my contents page to be similar to Q Magazine, with each feature in the list telling the reader what they might expect.

Masthead at bottom of the page

Somewhere on the contents page of music magazines is usually found the Name of the music magazine. On Q Magazine, the famous ‘Q’ can be found at the bottom of the contents page next to the page number and date. Whereas, for Kerrang! It is at the top of the page next to the title Contents.

On my contents page, the Name of my magazine ‘EMERGE’ is at the bottom of the page next to the page number.

A note from the editor

Q Magazine and Kerrang! contain either the Q REVIEW or a note from the editor to give the reader more information about the magazine itself and/or the current music scene for the magazines specific genre.

Double Page SpreadMain image

Quote from the article

Name of the article

Social media links

Name of the artist

3 columns

First letter of the name of the artist over the article

cd

Quote from the articleKerrang! Magazine is the only magazine out of the 3 magazines I chose that had a quote taken out of the article and placed over the image.

However, I decided to use that technique, because a reader that is flipping through the magazine would notice the quote and want to read the article.

3 columnsNME and Q Magazine use 3 columns in their magazines, which is a typical magazine article layout. I decided to use this same 3 columned layout.

The big letter on top of the article

In Q Magazine, it is a typical feature for the first letter of the artist in questions name to be overlaid the article, in a colour reflecting the colour scheme. On the right is an ‘L’ in red for an article about Lady Gaga.

I replicated this. An ‘R’ is overlaid on the article, for an article about my artist ‘Rose London’.