Evaluation Activity 1

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have made sure my media product uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products in a variety of ways, one way being my title of my magazine, "future cut", I decided to pick this as my title because I wanted something that linked in with music and was not just a word on the front cover. When I researched music magazines, I could see that titles such as "pop" was used, this being for a pop magazine, this was used to express the genre of music the magazine portrayed. I decided to go with "Future cut" because of the fact that I was advertising future musicians that had new albums on my magazine. When making a new album or a CD it is called a cut. I then decided to put future and cut together making my title "Future Cut". I also chose the title font and size to be large and italic, I used the font "Riesling" because I wanted my title to stand out, not for being Bold and Big but for being elegant and classy. I also then made the title of my models name the same size and font because I knew that the title was the first thing to get noticed and by having the name of my model the same font and size I was hoping that it would be the second thing that was noticed.



The Mise-en-scene of my images used through out my media product has challenged forms and conventions of real media products by the props that I used on my model, very many of her pictures are her in sunglasses, when looking through music magazines I came to realise that many musicians such as Jay-z, beyonce and P-diddy had sunglasses on in some of there pictures, I feel this is because it seems to give the musician a sort of mysterious look about them yet a clear and welcoming look at the same time. I wanted my model to have the same vibe giving off as those particular musicians. I also dressed her in very up to date fashionable clothing that many young girls like to wear or like the idea of being able to wear. I dressed her a trendy but elegant dresses and shorts.
When it come to the musicians I had on my cover line and front page I had to think about the genre of my music and my model, for example I couldn't have rock bands on the front of my magazine when its a pop genre magazine. I decided that I was going to put pop singers and RNB singers on there so that my model fell into two categories. I researched many Pop magazines to see who they had on the front and just like me they had a pop group and then a couple of individual musicians. I did exactly this by having a typical girl pop band "The Saturdays" as my group and then pop and RNB role models such as Lady gaga and Taylor Swift.
My written content, such as the text on my front page and the text on the content page was the hardest part for me to think of because although I had to make sure it still sounded "Pop" I had to make sure it didn't sound too young and more like a little girls magazine rather then a music magazine. I did this by looking at music magazine's such as "Kerrang" to see if they had a certain text that fitted in with their rock genre. I feel that I presented my written content as "pop" genre well by doing things such as "Hot or Not?" and "The year in numbers, how 2010 stacks up!" just like many other pop magazines have.
The layout of my magazine is similar to many music magazines no matter the genre of music, many magazines have the main artist as the middle attraction on the front cover so that the audience know who the main musician in the magazine is, just like I have. I have also put her artist name in a bigger font and size then everything else so that it stands out as one of the main attractions on the front cover with the other subheadings smaller around it. Many music magazines do this to be able to ensure that the musician on the front is the main focus. Also on my contents page I have made sure that although all the other text and page numbers are on there, my model who is the main attraction on the front page is also an eye catcher on the contents page. My model has her own quarter of the page with a picture of her and a little introduction of what the interview with her is about and what page number it is on, I got my influence from a Pop magazine called "Pop".
Overall the music genre I wanted to do was Pop because I felt that I knew that style of music very well and could come up with many ideas such as how to dress my model and how to write out the double page spread. I feel my magazine suggests "Pop" genre by a range of different things such as my model, her poses, the clothes she's wearing, the layout of the front cover and the contents page, the colour theme on both pages. Although I never copied a "pop" genre magazine I feel that my magazine could fit in well with them as a whole.