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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
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In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products?

Music4you magazine was designed for young people into indie rock music, and also people who enjoyed exploring new genres. Therefore I used NME magazine to gain ideas from. I feel Muisc4you has taken some key points from NME and developed them. For example, I liked the way the ‘NME’ masthead stood out in a bright colour and a big font. I decided to therefore do my masthead in large capital letters. However, I then developed this convention by adding more than one colour into my masthead, I believe this makes it more eye catching to potential buyers, and would therefore make the magazine more likely to be purchased. This, I therefore believe challenged the conventions of real media products as it is unlikely that a masthead contains more than one colours. However, something that I really liked about NME and Q magazine were their use of basic colours on the front cover. I believe by using the same simple colours every time the magazine is published allows people to relate that colour to that magazine. For example, red is very much Q’s signature colour, it would be strange for Q, to start using green all over their front cover. I therefore decided to use this idea on my magazine, by sticking to a basic dark red people could relate this colour to my magazine. Also I believe that using to many colours on the front cover would make it look to busy and not professional.

Using one colour repeatedly prevents the front cover looking to messy. Makes it stand out, and gives it a signature colour

Big, bold masthead, so people eyes are instantly drawn to it.

The use of white text on a black background really makes it stand out.

There is too many colours on this front cover, it is hard to pick a colour out that represents the magazine.

Challenging forms and conventions of real media products. Unlike NME and Q. My magazine is predominantly more male based. As seen by the screenshots of my magazine here. This challenges conventions as majority of music magazines feature both male and female references/pictures on the front cover.I decided to do this as I believe the ‘indie rock’ genre is more male based than female and I really wanted to portray this. However, I believe this does not just make my magazine appealing to men as I have also included women in my magazine, as seen on the contents page. Also the men featured in my magazine are young, attractive men, discussing things like relationships, this will attract women towards my magazine as they will be drawn in due to the female gaze.Therefore I believe my reader base will be just as much women as it is men.

This sort of article will attract the female audience as they will want to know what their latest ‘heart throb’ is up to.

By including posters of male singers in Music4you, I can attract male and females. For example, women will see them as attractive icons, whereas males may see them as idols, or role models that they aspire to be like.

When I was planning my double page spread I struggled to think what I could do to make it look realistic. Originally for my double page spread, I took a picture of Tom up against a white back drop. My idea was to cut Tom out of the white background and edit another one in. however, after trial and error I decided this did not look right, and looked very unprofessional.When researching existing NME and Q magazines, my favourite style was having one page taken up by a photo and the other page full of text. To do this I thought a realistic background would be needed, something other than a white back drop.

I wanted to make it look like the character was in action making his music when the picture was taken. This is why I decided to take the picture of Tom in the recording studio, instead of just having a plain back drop behind him. I did this because I thought it would appeal to the people interested in his music and also it would be more exciting to look at and give a more realistic vibe. I felt I challenged the convention with this photograph because, often in music magazines, characters either have a plain background behind them or look like they are deliberately posing for a photograph.

It was through the help of my market analysis that I came up with this idea. One of the pictures on a double page spread I analysed was a man in a graveyard. I thought the picture looked different and quirky, unlike most photos in magazines and it inspired me to be creative with the image for my double page spread.

When deciding what sort of article to write in my magazine, I wanted to make sure it would portray the personality, music and emotions of the character I was writing about. This is why I decided to do an unstructured interview, as it would be my character talking from their point of view, and it would allow more of a conversation between the character and the interviewer. This would attract the audience and make them feel involved. When researching into existing interviews and magazines I found that informal language and slang was often used, things such as ‘haha’ or ‘erm’. I decided to use this convention in my magazine as I felt it would appeal more to my target audience and allow them to understand how the character is feeling and also make the interview more realistic. I also liked the idea of using a pull quote as my headline for the article, because as a music magazine reader myself I feel it draws you into the article as you feel the character is talking to you.


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