Evaluation Question 1

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

Looking at my final product i'd definitely say that i did get a chance to challenge real media products because of the reason that my magazine was based one of them. Looking back at the research i expressed how i adore the magazine of Rolling Stone and the way they have used their media forms and conventions for the past 45 years or so in extreme ingenuity. My final product challenges their forms and conventions on the way i constantly went back and compared to a number of the Rolling Stone magazine covers, content pages, double spread pages and so on. That magazine provided the basis for me to go ahead on the genre i did without any hesitation because it gave me comfort to know that what i wanted to do for about the first time had already been done for the past 45 years in Rolling Stone and i could gain in my experience in what they have done.

This is my final cover page and in comparison

to a word wide recognized magazine such as

Rolling Stone what i did was that i kept the idea of

color dedication  not to as full an extent to how 

Rolling Stone sometimes uses it. I kept the color

dedication or a  limit as can be seen the red is seen

in most of the cover and it stands out with the guitar.

The background i kept plain and simplistic just as the

one on the left because again i believe that the 

audience gets sidetracked or distracted with too many

images in the cover page which is why i kept it simple

with one image that is the main focus of this magazine

to which the colors symbolize the importance in their

complementary nature. Again i love the idea of

covering the masthead with part of the image because

it gives it a more realistic look as most of the 

magazines of today do. Kerrang as an example uses

too much images and distaction is created and it 

is not really clear what is actually being focused on

so just as Rolling Stone magazine i kept it on

focus with one image for a better appeal.

Looking at these types of covers is where i got my 

inspiration from because they have that simplistic 

look towards it and not too much over done in terms 

of text and images, just a single mid shot image of a 

person with a relatively simple plain background, the

color used in this cover complements other parts of

of the elements used in this cover for example

Johnny Depp as a part of a prop used a relatively 

dark green jacket to display himself and in order  for it

to create appeal and attraction textual colors match the 

jacket colour. This gives a rather dedicative feel to it as

because of the jacket is green all the rest is also set for 

green which gives relative importance to the person being  displayed in the cover of the magazine.

For the contents i did not really research on what kind of magazine i wanted to base it on, even though at the creation time i thought that that might be the best idea to go for, but as time progressed i wanted one specific part of the magazine which was completely my idea and did not take on any idea of Real Media or challenge them in that much of a way. So what i went with on my contents page is my model actually standing on higher ground a ledge of some sort, so that it would be relatively easy to photoshop because she and the ledge were basically part of the foreground and the rest was the background. I thought it to be a good idea to just have this image in the contents page again having a very simplistic yet original touch to it. On the sides i have the contents posted with different colored text to symbolize the uniqueness of each topic.

I kept to being original on the creation
of the contents page and did not
really reasearch much or at all on
the construction of the contents
because this idea that had formed in my
head seemed brilliant at the time and
towards the end to me it proved
successful.

For the double spread page i wanted something similar to Rolling Stone's incorporation of the idea of having one page dedicated to text and one page dedicated to imagery. Too much text is not appealing and too much images is not either so keeping it in the balance was a good way for me to go, i went ahead with this idea and for my double spread kept a page for the interview with just a small picture creeping out of the corner to have something to put an image to when reading the article. For the second page i had a completely black and whitened photo of the model playing piano with a quote of her fictional hit song.

"As well as the text the picture plays a large role in this it's the fist thing that the reader will look at so it either has to be of a sexual orientation or have vibrant colours" Joshua Cragg

This is believe to be a very accurate reading of how the double spread is supposed to be, a page fully dedicated as an image of the person really appeals to an audience in a sense that it enhances the imagination of the audience to put an image to what they are reading on the article, to better relate to the article, to better understand circumstances written about in the article.

This is how i chose to display my double spread page, as seen
above is the double spread page of a katy perry article in the
Rolling Stone magazine to which i took some inspiration
from but added a couple of my twists and turns as well. First off
i added a picture to the article page because i believe only
text makes it unappealing and uninteresting, secondly for the
second page i added a quote of a fictional hit song my the model
which would seem to attract the audience more if they have been
part of her musical career.