Evaluation Q1

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

• By Jayden Malabre

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Banner
Masthead
Selling Line
Secondary Leads
Feature Article Photo
Kickers
Cover Lines
Flash
Anchorage
Headline
Graphic Feature
Date Line with web address
Plug
Menu Strip
Bar Code
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Section Banner
Issue and Dateline
Stand-out quote
Main Feature (with inset pictures)
Navigation Panel (with header)
Signed Editorial (with dropped capitals)
Section Header
Pictorial insets (of highlights exclusives)
Border / Divider
Page numbers (with headers resembling kickers and
cover lines)
Subscription box
Front Cover Copy
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Section Header
White Space (helps to avoid info overload)
Dropped Capital
Background Photo
Title
Pull Quote
Caption
Inset Picture
Columns (with the body text)
Graphic Feature
Slug
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My music magazine highlights many conventions of
a real magazine media product, by using different
forms and conventions to create the design of the
magazine. The different conventions help for the
magazine to appeal to the specific house style of
the product. The house style of my magazine is
not particularly different to others as is shares
many of the same forms and conventions of many
other RB magazines, for example the text that
has been used for the masthead is tall and clean
cut like other famous magazines such as "Vibe"
and "billboard" The colour scheme for the
magazine was inspired by the billboard magazine
cover on the left, at the beginning the colour
scheme I chose was yellows, mustards and whites,
but then looking at other magazines I realised
that the colours were quite murky and dark so I
should go for a more basic colour scheme that
appeals to the eye and fits in to the house
style, so inspiration was taken from existing
magazine colours of the same house style as mine.
I chose to get ideas for the magazine from
billboard because they focus on the same genre of
RB, so some of there style is mixed in with
mine. So I changed the colour scheme to something
similar to an existing music magazine, the
colours consist of dark and light blues and
whites for a clean professional look.
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The cover of my magazine uses a cover image which
takes up most of the page so there is no dead
space on the cover, this makes the magazine look
more appealing, professional and realistic, so as
this was one of the main aspects of the cover
everything else on the magazine was fitted
accordingly to the image. So the kickers and
cover lines worked around the image, the headline
was put in a place where it wouldn't interfere
with the main focus of the image. As the
background of the cover is dark blue it made
sense to go the complete opposite of this for the
text so it was readable, so I used white text so
it stood out against the background. The
contents page was inspired by many other contents
pages, like the layout of text with the banners
was inspired by Q magazine contents, the banners
separate each section deliberately giving it a
clean and professional quality. Some words are
highlighted a different colour this idea was
taken from Glamour magazine, it highlights the
important key words from the rest so it grabs the
readers attention. The main cover story is the
first thing you come to notice on the page this
was done deliberately, because it is the main
focus of the whole magazine. I continued to use
the same colour scheme to the reader is
familiarised with magazine.