Evaluation part 1

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


Front Cover.

I chose to base my magazine in a mix of 'Q' and 'KERRANG!'. My fornt cover has a photo of a couple, one holding a guitar the other holding a microphone both wearing a black top and blue jeans to show a sense of unity. I then edited out the background to make it a plain grey colour so the focus was on the couple. I then put a plain title 'REVERB' at the top of the page with no border around it. I chose to do this because i thought that with the grey background, the title stood out as it was a dark colour. I then put a white box at the bottom of the page with band names in to give it an authentic look corresponding with 'KERRANG!'. I then created 3 slogans over the main photo saying 'Move over Gaga... Why Not Tonight?...Is here to stay.' I chose to put the first and the last in a different font and colour to 'Why Not Tonight?'. I chose to do this as it broke up the sentence and brought attention to the band name as does other magazines. I then chose to put another photo of three girls at the bottom of the page in a black box, one dressed as a police officer and the other two as robbers. I then added a caption next to this photo stating that 'Cops'n'Robbers' are in for an exclusive interveiw. I added this because i thought it would add some thing to the page as it looked quite bare just with the photo of the couple.



The Contents Page

When doing my contents page I chose to do it similar to the 'KERRANG!' contents. Plain white background. Black boxes with yellow titles describing the contents of the magazine. I then put a large photo of the same couple taking up a quarter of the page to show that they are the focus of the magzine.

The Double Spread Page

I decided that the photos should reflect the contents of the article. I thought that they should be completely different from the photos in the rest of the magazine. I saw that in some of the magazines the photos overlap easch other, I copied this technique.