Evaluation Question 1 - Part 1.

Evaluation Question 1 - Part 1.

• 1.
  Evaluation Question 1
• 2.
  In what waysdoes your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• 3.
  This is the frontpage of my music magazine.
• 4.
  Main Image The mainimage of my music magazine is placed in the center of the page as it is the main feature of the page. The subject of the image is holding a guitar which will attract my target audience of musically-interested young-adults. My subject is wearing an off-the- shoulder top, messy hair and has eye- contact with the reader, which will, again, attract my target audience as youths stereo-typically go through a rebellious phase.
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  Selling Line The sellingline that I have used for my music magazine is a music-related quote from one of my featured bands and will draw in my target audience. The word “lifestyle” is in capital letters and therefore stands out on the page and attracts the eye of my potential consumers and also highlights how passionate my featured bands are about music.
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  Lead Article My leadarticle ties-in with my main image as it shows text-image cohesion and both are large and centered on the page, this will immediately attract my potential buyers as it provides a decent amount of information about the lead article of the magazine.
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  Cover Lines The cover lines of my music magazine are in a variety of different colours and font sizes, this creates a fun and disorganised feel, which will be attractive to my rebellious target audience of young adults.
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  The Left Third Theleft third of my front cover contains a lot of information about the magazine and it’s contents. I feel that my left third develops usual magazine conventions as it includes an image as well as text. This is not a common factor of the left third yet I feel that it works well here as it attracts a potential buyers gaze via colour and shape.
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  House Style For the house style of my magazine, as well as using the more plain colours of black, gray and white, I decided to use navy blue and bright pink. This is not a usual convention of music magazines as they tend to use colours that are not gender-specific as not to favour a particular gender. I have chosen these colours as they appeal directly to both males and females rather than not directing a gender at all.
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  Price and Barcode I have followed the usual music magazine convention by placing my price and barcode at the bottom right corner of the front cover. This is done as it is most likely to be the last place on the page that a potential buyer will look at.
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  Masthead Themasthead of my music magazine is centrally placed at the top of the page as it is the first thing that I want my target audience to buy. The name ‘Bad Obsession’ would be attractive to my target audience as it has negative connotations, which teenagers/ young adults are stereotypically linked with; the word ‘Obsession’ suggests that my music magazine is so good that it is capable of becoming an obsession and I think that this would intrigue a potential buyer. My main image overlaps and covers part of my masthead and, much like popular music magazines such as the Rolling Stone, this shows that the magazine is so well known that when the full masthead is not shown, the target audience still knows which magazine it is.
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  Pull Quote Idecide to incorporate the pull quote “This is going to kill me” as it shows one of my featured artists in crisis and the severity of the quote would interest my target audience thus making them more inclined to purchase my magazine. My pull quote is typical of a music magazine as it is dramatic and interesting.