To the Examiner,
I hope you enjoy reading through my blog and looking at the progression I have made from my preliminary product to my final media product. I have developed many skills throughout the coursework from using photoshop, photography and many other technologies. I made a large effort throughout my research and planning in the hope I could create a successful magazine from the criteria given.
Thankyou, Alice
Friday 30 March 2012
FINAL EVALUATION: Question 1
- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The magazines I looked at for inspiration were from the same genre as my media product. It was therefore easier to see genre-specific conventions and helped me to develop ideas on how to change and challenge those conventions in order to make my magazine stand out without appearing to be from a different genre.
I also took ideas from pop magazines for the basis of my colour scheme; I found that they conventionally used bright colours but also stuck to the idea of a 3 colour pallet. This gave me inspiration to have a base of a 3 colour pallet to reflect those conventionally related to pop genre magazines. However, on occasions I found that the magazines also used forth or fifth colours for accents within the masthead or coverlines.
Examples of Pop Magazine covers that I looked at for colour pallet ideas
Black, White and Green - Black, Grey and Purple - Black, Purple, Gold and White Accents
I also looked at fashion magazines such as Cosmopolitan, which has a similar audience to the one I intend to market my magazine for, they also regularly feature many of the celebrities that I have taken inspiration from.
After researching this my colour pallet was easy to choose as I wanted to incorporate black and white to give the magazine a bold, clean and clear look with one main colour to emphasis the magazines key features. After seeing that music magazines commonly use black and white in their colour pallets with the final colour being a bold colour such as red; I decided that I wanted to steer away from red to keep my magazine looking vibrant but still wanted a bold, impact colour similar to this; I therefore decided to use orange as my third colour, because I felt it had the right feel and wasn't commonly used in pop magazines so would help to make my magazine stand out. However I did also add in accents using a forth reddy colour.
When creating my media products, my ideas on the use and challenges of conventions where heavily influenced by the examples I evaluated. For my cover I have decided to use the rule of thirds, as this is the most common layout format used for magazines, especially music related ones such as Billboard, as the layout helps you to clearly portray your masthead, ideas and themes. Also when taking into consideration the way in which magazines are presented in shops, the majority of magazines only have the top third on show to shoppers; therefore, putting the masthead in this third allows your magazine to be quickly recognised, to help increase the likelihood of sales. However, I also took the bottom two thirds of my page to play with conventions, as I feel this helps to make it look unique and different. I split this section into two halves; one created for the main image and one for the cover lines. I think the way I have done this gives the cover a slick, clean and ‘fresh’ appearance. Thursday 29 March 2012
Tuesday 27 March 2012
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