1. Media Music Magazine Evaluation By Orselina Pemaj

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

3. Master head: The font and colour relate well with the rock genre as in NME they also use red, this shows that my magazine follows the code and convention. The image: I have used is of a rock band In a long shot, I have broken the conventions as I have used a long shot However by using a band I have in some ways followed it. Sell line: My sell line is ‘THE WORLDS BEST SELLING ROCK MAGAZINE’ i believe this will influence people in to buying my magazine. Barcode: I have used a barcode as every magazine has a barcode Banner: I have used a banner like to indicate what the magazine will have inside Cover story: I have made my cover story bigger then the other text to denote its importance compared to the other features. I have chosen to use a house style of red, black and white because my music magazine is associated with the genre of rock. I received feed back from my target audience and they said that they preferred this colour convention.

5. I used a plain black back ground for my double page spread because it makes my images and text stand out more, it also goes with my colour scheme. I placed my images on this side of the double page spread because it blends in with the layout and it complements the structure. I put the bands name on my double page spread so I am therefore following the code and conventions however I am going against the code and convention by putting it at the bottom of the double page spread. I used the font and the font colour purely based on the fact that it stands out to the audience. I have used a quote as my heading, to make the double page spread more personal and all about the band. NME do this a lot, so I am therefore following the code and convention. I have organised the text in an orderly fashion which follows the conventions. I kept the colour of questions red while the answers were black

6. How does your media product represent particular social groups? The age and social group I intended to represent are 14-25 years old males and females and social group B,C1,2. The images I used on my magazine front cover, contents page & double page spread are all females because females are attracted to both males and females. Females want to look like the models, while males will buy my magazine to see the images of females. The word ‘sex’ is one of the biggest words on the double page spread which fits in with the grimy images. It represents the audience as young and carefree and rebellious. The colours I used on my magazine are white, red and black and I used the same colour scheme throughout my magazine. I wanted my magazine to look quiet professional and not with too much colour. As well as red, white & black are unisex colours. Also that was the most popular colours my target audiences picked when I conducted my survey. Also as my target audience would either be in full time education or working on a minimum wage, as a result of this I decided to sell my magazine at £3.50