Evaluation - Question 1

Question 1

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

My final product, which is my music magazine, “Ignition” has used conventions of magazines, such as a masthead by using it to display the title of the magazine that I have created. All magazines do this too. I have also looked at the positioning of mastheads and found that they are placed at the top on the front cover on other magazines, so I placed mine there too. I also used the name of the masthead to create connotations of the music genre.

I also have looked at the layout of text on a magazine front cover, contents page and a double page spread and I found that in most magazines that I researched has text in vertical columns, so I applied this into my magazine. All magazines follow a house style so I followed the convention by creating my own house style; I used this for text, text boxes for my contents page, page numbers and backgrounds. I have used cover images creates connotations and moods about an individual or an item which gives a certain attitude towards a certain type or group of people. My connotations have simular connotations to a real Hiphop. They are, gangster, seriousness, emotionless etc. I have also placed the issue number of the magazine just like a real magazine does.