Evaluation Question 1

Conventions of real products

To answer this question I will compare my products to real media products in attempt to see if they follow the conventions of real institution practice. At the beginning of my research I did a conventions analysis on indie rock magazines, I have reposted them in this presentation so compare to a conventions analysis of my products.

Real Media Products

My Product

Sky line

Mast head

Main Image

Sell Lines

Head line

Sub-Heading

Bar code/price/issue no./date

Secondary Images

Real Media Product

My Product

Page Title

Images

Page References

Social Media tags

Quotes from main article

Feature Section with page numbers

Plug

Page Number

Real Media Product

My Product

Page Title/Article Title

Main Image

Introduction

Article

Highlighted Quotes

Page Number

Overall ComparisonSimilarities

• Colour Splash continuity• Most aspects/conventions

recreated in the products• A continued ‘look’

thoughout the magazine, i.e. ‘clean’ or ‘crowded’

• Same placement of Masthead

Differences

• Missed the date on the contents page

• Use of a secondary image on the double page spread

• I feel like I could’ve used an artists index on my contents page as it doesn’t have very many article on it to cover 60+ pages of magazine