EVALUATION ONE: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e. of music magazines)
My cover could be classed as fitting the typical convections of a front cover as I have used the same layout and style of design as ‘I-D' magazine, however there are still differences between the two but they do not draw away from my magazine looking like a magazine.
Also I feel as though on my front cover the picture that I have used, a mid shot with her looking into the camera fits in with the magazine as with other magazines eye contact is being made and a mid shot as been used, showing the resemblance between the two, and how the eye contact of the shot involves the audience. By having the image with 'Luna-Grace' looking straight into the camera lens it follows generic conventions of a magazine style as it is often seen throughout magazines for eye contact to be made wight eh reader and the image on the front for maximum potential.
It is important on a magazine to include details such as the issue number and the season, this adds more style to the magazine and indicates back to more generic conventions of a typical magazine that you may see on the shelf, I chose to put these in black as on my magazine the image takes up the whole front cover but wight he black font it stands out enough for the reader to be able to notice it, also on the front cover of my magazine i have included hints of grey font and a grey box at the bottom of the page, by adding the grey i feel i am challenging convections of a real media product as grey isn't often seen on the front for things like the font as it can be a challenging colour to work with.
For my mast head i used ----------- i decided to use this font as because my mast head is quite short i needed something bold enough to make it stand out on the page, but also to not take away from the image or the other text on the page with the font -------- i feel i chose the right amount of boldness and depth to make it work on the front cover and to add style and edge to my magazine, i also put this in the colour black and overlaid it with a grey box to make it pop even more and for it to tie in with the rest of the magazine
My Model/Music artist Luna-Grace was styled on the likes of the models in the I-D magazine as they are dressed in very simple clothing blacks and whites, not huge colour pallet to be used, I only dressed Luna in simple clothing as a patterned colour top wouldn’t of looked correct or would have blended in right with the colour range of my magazine, it would've clashed with the type of photo i have chose to use and it would've draw away front any text on the front of the magazine
Double page-
For my double i feel as though i do follow a generic convention, i chose to have half the magazine as an image then the other half as a font, by following generic conventions for my indie alternative music magazine i feel as though i am reaching the potential to attract the full audience that would be able to read and would want to read my magazine without it being too out their or too over stylised for my kind of audience who within my planning and research 'Young Alts' Like to consider themselves as individual but also like things to be clean and simple and not too out their just how they would dress themselves, so i also decided that for my image on my double page spread i kept the image simple but i did add a bit of a twist by having Luna looking into the mirror, i felt this image was challenging conventions as it wasn't playing to the generic conventions of a mid or long shot which can often be found in an indie music styled magazine
Contents -
For my contents page i kept the colours to black and white to tie in with the front of the magazine and the double page spread, by doing this i was ensuring i had a flow throughout my magazine. For my double page spread i followed generic conventions and had the page numbers slightly bigger than the font, this can often be found in magazine as it indicates to the reader where to go and instantly jumps out at them, i chose to feature two images within my page which allows the audience to have an insight into my magazine and see what is featuring throughout
It is important on a magazine to include details such as the issue number and the season, this adds more style to the magazine and indicates back to more generic conventions of a typical magazine that you may see on the shelf, I chose to put these in black as on my magazine the image takes up the whole front cover but wight he black font it stands out enough for the reader to be able to notice it, also on the front cover of my magazine i have included hints of grey font and a grey box at the bottom of the page, by adding the grey i feel i am challenging convections of a real media product as grey isn't often seen on the front for things like the font as it can be a challenging colour to work with.
For my mast head i used ----------- i decided to use this font as because my mast head is quite short i needed something bold enough to make it stand out on the page, but also to not take away from the image or the other text on the page with the font -------- i feel i chose the right amount of boldness and depth to make it work on the front cover and to add style and edge to my magazine, i also put this in the colour black and overlaid it with a grey box to make it pop even more and for it to tie in with the rest of the magazine
My Model/Music artist Luna-Grace was styled on the likes of the models in the I-D magazine as they are dressed in very simple clothing blacks and whites, not huge colour pallet to be used, I only dressed Luna in simple clothing as a patterned colour top wouldn’t of looked correct or would have blended in right with the colour range of my magazine, it would've clashed with the type of photo i have chose to use and it would've draw away front any text on the front of the magazine
Double page-
For my double i feel as though i do follow a generic convention, i chose to have half the magazine as an image then the other half as a font, by following generic conventions for my indie alternative music magazine i feel as though i am reaching the potential to attract the full audience that would be able to read and would want to read my magazine without it being too out their or too over stylised for my kind of audience who within my planning and research 'Young Alts' Like to consider themselves as individual but also like things to be clean and simple and not too out their just how they would dress themselves, so i also decided that for my image on my double page spread i kept the image simple but i did add a bit of a twist by having Luna looking into the mirror, i felt this image was challenging conventions as it wasn't playing to the generic conventions of a mid or long shot which can often be found in an indie music styled magazine
Contents -
For my contents page i kept the colours to black and white to tie in with the front of the magazine and the double page spread, by doing this i was ensuring i had a flow throughout my magazine. For my double page spread i followed generic conventions and had the page numbers slightly bigger than the font, this can often be found in magazine as it indicates to the reader where to go and instantly jumps out at them, i chose to feature two images within my page which allows the audience to have an insight into my magazine and see what is featuring throughout
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