Finished Magazine Cover And Evaluation

Above Is My Finished Magazine Cover

In evaluation of my finished magazine cover I will answer the follow:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I feel our finished media product of a magazine cover both challenges and conforms to the conventions of its type. It goes against the typical conventions of a girl band, as they would more commonly be seen on the cover of a lads type of magazine for example, FHM, and as we did research in to this we decided that as our video conforms to the conventions well that it would be interesting to do something a bit different for the magazine, there for we decided to do a rap magazine which goes against the normal conventions of which magazines you would expect to see the average girl group appear in , as I personally and my research also shows that they feature mostly in glamour and gossip magazines as well as teen magazines. However it conforms because we researched and identified the conventions of a rap magazine and conformed to them instead for example how it was set out the lay out, the picture we used and colours and fonts.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

The magazine adds an element of realism to the girl band, the combination brings the band and its members to life and makes it more as if the band we have created. I think although there is a slight contrast between the genres I think the magazine cover serves its purpose as a tool to advertise the music band and the song Beautiful Dirty Rich.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We have not had any individual targeted feedback on this product, how ever people who have seen the article have all gave positive and comments have been said that it looked very realistic

and again that the combination of the two works well. The only criticism we had was that they personally would have stayed with a pop genre rather then venturing in to the rap type magazine, however they thought that we pulled it of well and the magazine was successful in its purpose. All feed back for our magazine cover was informal and in form of conversation were as with the video we printed of sheets and gave them to people to watch.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I think technology has been vital in all parts of the construction of our magazine cover, it was necessary to use Internet to research in to different covers, and to upload the images that we had taken by our friend during a photo shoot. Also in construction we needed it for the programs of word to use and different fonts.

Would you change anything if you could go back?

I think next time I would have made more than two projects, as for this I only created two renditions using different pictures and a variety of colours and as both of these were rap magazines, I would have tried one as a glamour fashion magazine, which would have involved taking different pictures in a variety of more fashion dresses rather then hiphop 'swag'.