In what ways does my media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

Evaluation 1:

Comparison to other magazines!• This is an example of a

Billboard Front Cover and I used the same colour background but made it lighter. I chose this colour as my target audience is aimed to girls ages 13-20.

• On my front cover I wrote most of the text on the left hand side as my model was on the right. I kept this from billboard magazine and made the name of my singer larger and in a different font like this picture.

• I used only two different colour fonts because if there were to many colours it would be very busy and distracting.

• The writing above the title I moved to directly next to the title as it was my slogan (selling point).

• In this picture they do not have a barcode therefore I kept with normal conventions of a magazine and added it in the bottom left hand corner.

• On the right side of singer there is a circle shape with writing about the chart music and this makes the audience want to buy and read this magazine.

• I made my own star shape and wrote about my interview with the singer on my front cover in bold cover so it will stand out.

• I think my masthead is not a conventional pop magazine name.

• Pop magazines with young audiences either have a name with the word pop in it and have more than one word e.g.

‘Top of the Pops’‘We love Pop’• This makes my pop magazine stand out

compared to other pop magazines and sounds more grown up.

• I sent my photo to the back and had all my text over the photo because my pop magazine isn't very well known yet. Billboard magazine have there photo overlapping the title because it is very significant and popular magazine.

• On my front cover at the last minute I added hearts surrounding the writing because on most of the magazines they either have stars and hearts on it.

• I think pop magazines for kids have too much going on therefore I tried combining the billboard layout which is simpler with the top of the pops information on it.

• I added a pink coloured shape behind the bottom part of writing because on the two pictures above they use different coloured shapes but I think they look over the top.

• I added the date, issue number, website and price on my front cover. However not all magazines add all of this information.

• I made my front cover on Pic Monkey and chose the font called Budmo Jiggler .I chose to make the font bold to make it big and stand out on my front cover.

• On pop front covers they keep the same font and Budmo Jiggler looks like small spotlights and gives a clear vibe of pop.

• I used Lobster Two as most of my text down the left hand side because it is very girly and the font chose is different to pop magazine examples.

• Amatic small Caps was used for my issue number and date because the font looks like someone's hand writing which gives a fun vibe.• My slogan is…

‘Making Pop the new POP-ular! Because recently pop magazines have got less and less popular with the age group 13-20 because people don't think its cool to read them.• I have tried to make my magazine up to date with pop

culture including new singers and bands and gossip about celebrities to entice the audience to read my magazine and think it is interesting.

• We love Pop magazines slogan is ‘Don't bore us, get to the chorus 'this suggests the magazine is all about pop music and it isn't boring.

Contents Page Inspiration• I used the same font for my

contents page title and to make it non- conventional to other pop magazines I adjusted it to the side which is very eye catching.

• I chose to 'Inside this Month…’because in pop magazines I researched they wrote ‘Inside this mag. I use slang because it is a very laid back magazine.

• I thought I was being original when writing this as a sub-heading but in ‘we love pop’ they write this.

• To make it different to this magazine I moved it to the top of the page, therefore its easy to read.

• I changed the colour of the page numbers because in the two examples it looks effective than all of it in one colour.

• I used pastel coloured rectangles behind the text because this is the summer edition of my magazine and these colours are popular at this time of year.

• I chose 4 photos to put down the right hand side and I added a polaroid frame around each of them because it is on trend and pop magazines have to keep up to date with everything!

• I added small pink hearts down the edge of the right hand side because it looked bare and in pop magazines they use a lot of hearts to decorate the page.

• I only have 4 pieces of text on the page which isn't a lot compared to the examples. I added a orange star with information on to entice the reader to read on to these specific pages.

• I kept the same colour background as I wanted to keep the same theme all the way through my magazine. I think a white background with black font is too harsh for a pop magazine.

• If I added more stickers, phots and text on to my contents page I think it would look more realistic because they always jam pack it with information.

Double Page Spread Inspiration• For my DPS I didn't want to just copy another pop magazine but I wanted to take different elements from each magazine combine them together to get an effective double page spread.

• In pop magazines they either write an article or interview and I chose an interview because you can get to know the celebrity proper instead of assuming facts and opinions in an article.

• In this article with Union J I like the change in font colour between the question and answer because it is a clear difference and makes it easier to read.

• I also used a coloured shape behind my text to make it stand out.

• I like the layout of the DPS of Justin Bieber because the 3 photos in a line down the left side with a white border.

• Because it looks like a photo booth strip of photos and gives a retro vibe to the magazine.

• There is a large quotation from the interview and this makes the audience want to read the interview.

• On the DPS about Pixie Lott I like the change in colour of text, the same as the Union J interview.

• They use a polaroid frame around one of the photos and this is a very on trend of showing photos.

• Also they have different shaped circles with text on which looks really interesting and look like speech bubbles.