Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Evaluation: Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
As I researched music magazines and deconstructed them I know what conventions to expect and should be included within music magazines; this helped me a lot when creating my media products as I understand what is expected and what conventions I should use and where I should use them etc. For example I know that the masthead should be on the top right had side of the front cover so readers can see it and recognize it when it is on the shelf in the shop. So I took the knowledge that I learnt and applied it to my own work.
tTese are the links to some of my blog posts where I deconstruced some magazines:
These are my final pieces of work:
I chose to take inspiration from magazines such as NME, Q and Billboard, and I looked at the conventions that they used and decided which ones would work well in my magazine and which ones I didnt want to use.
For example I included the standard conventions like where you place things like the masthead and essential information on the front cover, but not all music magazines include the UK Top 10 within their magazine as it isn't appropriate to their genre but I chose to include it within mine as my target audience are be interested in it.
Most of the decisions I made regarding conventions were because of influences from other magazines and based on the results that my target audience gave me on my survey. I had an idea of what I wanted my music magazine to look like from the start, but after I learnt about conventions and what my audience were interested in I started to put it together and achieved a result similar to what I envisaged at the start.
I mainly got influences from NME, Q and Billboard magazine. I described what influence I took from these magazines in a blog post:
http://bethgowland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/influences.html
I started looking at these magazines for inspiration at the beginning of my research stage because they are all such well known and successful magazines. When I was looking at these magazines for inspiration I realised that some of the conventions that they use would also work well in my magazine; as these magazines are so successful I know that the conventions that they use work well and will then in turn work well in my magazine, so I used them as influence.
After creating my own music magazine I now understand that a lot of preparation ad detail goes into a magazine, even before production.
I have mainly used common conventions that all magazines use when it comes to the layout of my front cover, but because there are so many genres of music that not all generic or optional conventions may apply to each genre.
So because of this I chose colours and fonts that I thought would suit my genre, I also chose features and imagery that I know relate to each other and that suit my genre and in turn all together make the magazine work. Forexample in my contents page I have imagery of gigs and festivals, which relate to my features to do with festivals and live music; also I have kept continuity throughout all of my pieces of work by including images of my model which I featured as one of my artists in the magazine.
Most of the decisions I made regarding conventions were because of influences from other magazines and based on the results that my target audience gave me on my survey. I had an idea of what I wanted my music magazine to look like from the start, but after I learnt about conventions and what my audience were interested in I started to put it together and achieved a result similar to what I envisaged at the start.
I mainly got influences from NME, Q and Billboard magazine. I described what influence I took from these magazines in a blog post:
http://bethgowland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/influences.html
I started looking at these magazines for inspiration at the beginning of my research stage because they are all such well known and successful magazines. When I was looking at these magazines for inspiration I realised that some of the conventions that they use would also work well in my magazine; as these magazines are so successful I know that the conventions that they use work well and will then in turn work well in my magazine, so I used them as influence.
After creating my own music magazine I now understand that a lot of preparation ad detail goes into a magazine, even before production.
I have mainly used common conventions that all magazines use when it comes to the layout of my front cover, but because there are so many genres of music that not all generic or optional conventions may apply to each genre.
So because of this I chose colours and fonts that I thought would suit my genre, I also chose features and imagery that I know relate to each other and that suit my genre and in turn all together make the magazine work. Forexample in my contents page I have imagery of gigs and festivals, which relate to my features to do with festivals and live music; also I have kept continuity throughout all of my pieces of work by including images of my model which I featured as one of my artists in the magazine.
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