Monday 19 November 2012

Evaluation. Question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My product uses the conventions of real media products in various ways. For instance, eye catching titles are a conventional and iconic aspect of magazines that I have used in my product; this feature has been tried and tested in the form of whether the magazine stands out from a far back distance by myself and a few peer groups. Conventions are developed in the use of typographic styles and image styles to suggest and reflect the genre of the magazine as well the target audience. The title’s font style that is used reflects on the pop culture, and acts as an ‘iconic’ font that will reflect on the magazine and make it a well-known just like Top of the Pops.

Here are a few examples of existing ‘typographic’ font styles on real media products that make them well known brands:


Adobe is a worldwide known brand especially in the subject media. It’s well known for changing the world through digital experiences. Who help the customers create, deliver, and optimize content and applications. This logo and the typographic 'font' that is used by the company is what make it a global success that is well known.






Sight and Sound is magazine is a world known media magazine. It is target at teenage or older people who focus on film reviews, features and commentary, film and TV issues, world and classic cinema, and story archives. The typographic style is a conventional feature that makes the product the 'success' it is. The font allows for the magazine to have it as a 'trademark' allowing people all over the world to recognise this significant font.






Other conventional aspects of existing music magazines that I have picked up were features such as the ‘lures’. These are conventional aspects that apply for all magazine products; this was an obvious feature that I recognised and used in my existing product. But features in the ‘contents page’ like the layout with ‘band/artist shots’ and an image of the front page with arrows directing the lures was a feature I developed from existing products like ‘Top of the Pops’ and ‘We Love Pop’.

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