Evaluation Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In order to create my magazine, I used the forms and conventions of real media products so I was able to make a professional and authentic music magazine. In order to do this, I looked at many magazine and their features and chose which ones would suit my target audience more.

Magazine Title

This is the most important part of the magazine as it is the thing that first grabs the reader’s attention. I decided to use the concept of ‘Q’ and ‘NME’ magazines titles and develop it into my own. I decided to use the element on the ‘Q’ title of the single letter with the bright background and a slogan underneath to sum-up the magazine. I think this would be more suited to my target audience as it would be the most eye-catching to them. I chose to name my magazine ‘M’ to stand for Music and for this; I decided to base it on the ‘M’ from the ‘NME’ title. However, I altered this slightly as I chose not to outline the ‘M’ as I thought this would be too much with the red background. I also decided to not have such a bright colour as the background as the ‘Q’ title does.

I think that my magazine title suits my target audience of the indie/alternative genre and

Magazine Pictures

I chose to use a female model for my magazine as I think this would appeal to my target audience of females of the Indie style aged 15+. I first researched into how Indie models are styled (what outfits they wear, how their hair and make-up is styled). I then used elements of each of these pictures and used to them to create my final pictures: