EvaluationQuestion 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media products?

Within my planning process I has to make decisions to make my final products suitable for the purpose and audience that it is intented for. Because of this I have to follow many of the normal media conventions, this included; Header, Splash Image and Plugs. Magazine have these conventions to make sure that the audience will buy their magazine

CONVENTION - the ‘rules’ that are generally understood and accepted when producing a media text in a particular genre

The conventions I will look at are:• Style of

photography• Writing style• Pull quotes• Cover lines

• Page numbers• Masthead• Fonts• Colour scheme

Page NumbersI have included page numbers on my double page spread only. I decided to only partially follow this convention to make sure that the look of the pages were correct. However I still needed to include some page numbers so that the readers know what page to go to when following the contents page. The way I have presented this is very clear and away from the main article. I have done this so that it is clear to see and won’t be confused with the other part of the article.

MastheadThe masthead is key convention in every magazine. Which is why I have included it. As the usual convention is seen in practically every magazine, I have followed the usual of keeping the masthead to the top left hand corner. This normality is used to catch the eye of the reader straight away as they look to the top left first. I have made my mast head and my date has in the same space so that the space around the bar code wouldn’t look to crowded and eye catching because I wanted to make the splash image the main focus of the front cover. I have also done another masthead stereotype of overlapping the masthead and the splash Image, I have done thins to make it look more professional and also to save space fff ffff save space on the cover for other things like the cover lines

FontsFor my fonts I have used Myriad Pro for practically the whole of my magazine. However I have also distorted the fonts and stretched them so that they will seem different but still similar. The font has also correlated with the colour scheme through out my magazine. The usual convention of text is so be made so that it stands out from the rest of the magazine. However my choice to make the font the same throughout the magazine was to make sure that there was a familiarity for the readers so that they would recognise and learn to love the magazine.

Colour SchemeThe colour scheme is primarily made of three colours; White, Black and Red. I have chosen these colours because they make the magazine look professional. The red symbolises the passion that people have but it also adds the colour to the magazine. I have chosen the black and white as standard colours because they can stand out again the red easily an I can see that they look good together. These three colours are also good for colour blind people as they don’t clash and are of the format that people can understand