Evalution

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

My Front cover vs. A real front cover

When designing my magazine I always knew what I wanted my front cover to look like and I tried to achieve a very good professional look for my front cover, I really wanted it to look like a real magazine that is actually sold in stores all over the world. the purpose of my magazine is to show view new and unknown talent across the country, so they could become know in the industry. For my photo I took a long shot because I wanted to focus on setting as much as my model, the background was really important when taking the picture because I wanted it to engage the reader further of how my model has come from the streets and is now on the rise. Not many magazines chose to take long shots, they often take mid shots, however I wanted my magazine to stand out from the rest for a reason. As you can see from the professional magazine we have chosen to take different approach in terms of the picture but when I comes to text and further information we have very similar ideas of not trying to over complicate things and kept things very basic as it has more effect than trying to cram information onto the front cover. in terms of colour schemes a lot of magazines caught my idea but even more so this magazine because they have chosen two colours and kept the two colours consistent throughout the front cover. when I was designing the front cover I emphasised on the fact that pictures will over power words so I ensured that I had the right picture to carry that message across. I intended on using pictures to overpower words because I believe that when a reader grabs the magazine they will look and possibly buy it because the picture tells a story.
I like the idea that THE SOURCE only has a few sell lines and they are kept simple not over powering the picture I also wanted to do this because it betrays my model as hard and bad to suit my chosen genre. when I chose how I wanted my talent to look when taking it, I decided that I didn't want him looking at the camera so that he could continue being betrayed as a hard man and adds a hint of arrogant within the image. I made further edits towards the end of the design phase for example I thought it would be best if I altered the contrast making the background stand out and make the model stand out further. in terms of positioning the title I chose not to place it over my talents head because I believed it would take the effect out of the picture not many professional aim for the same look but I knew I didn't want to be the same in every aspect because it would make my magazine stand out from the rest.

                                                             
                                                                    



















My Contents page Vs. A real magazine front cover

                                 
My Contents page
Mine vs. a real magazine
For my contents I decided to take a different approach, instead of going for a long shot picture I opted for a mid shot I though about how I wanted my model to be betrayed once again and I really wanted to try and emphasise on him being arrogant so by taking a mid shot with my talent looking away it would once again show my reader the arrogant of my talent. For the contents I decided that I didn't want to much going on in the contents I wanted to make it even simpler with a simple background and my talent, this would make my contents a lot simpler. I tried once again to continue with the professional look through out my project so I decided to position all my text to the left hand side of my page and kept them similarly small so it look even and consisted on the whole page. I chose to place my title in the top left hand corner once again so that I had consistency throughout the front cover and contents.  By looking a the professional contents page you can see the similarities in my work and with the profession piece for example the positing on the text to the far left and keeping them inline and even.

         

My Double Page Spread vs. A Real Double Page spread
Once again I went with a professional look on my double page spread I went the look that many magazine decide to go with and I personally believe that its the most effective out of all of the possibilities. I decided to go with my image on the left hand side and text on the right in two columns. on my final product I went with a bold title so it stood out on top of the page and had a subtitle, I believed that had a lot of effect of my final piece because I think if I didn't have the bold title I believe it would lose elements of professionalism. My final piece continues to look professional except I didn't chose to go with a huge letter at the start of the text like most magazines decided to go for.