How to Answer Evaluation Question 1

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

Make a Prezi analysis, containing explanation and illustration of at least ten conventions drawn from your three finished products. Write about what the conventions are for, and how you have used them to create your own house style and brand identity, and to attract your target audience.  Add clipped images of similar conventions from real magazines too,  if you can, to show how your use is similar to or different from professional products.  Try to choose similar or contrasting examples from real media texts (but if you have based your designs very closely on a real product DO NOT USE THAT PRODUCT!!).

Conventions to explore

• masthead and title
• mise-en-scene and technical code of your main cover photo and other images
• Cover lines
• Graphic and other layout devices
• Puffs
• Colour scheme and ‘house style’
• Kicker
• Drop Caps
• Pull Quotes
• Cross-heads
• Column structure
• Use of white space
• Use of other layout conventions like rule of thirds, ‘z’ reading patterns
• End signs/jump lines
• The journalist style of the written content
• The division of your contents page into regulars and features
• Techniques to connote the excitement and business of the magazine on your contents page (inset photos with drop caps etc)

Remember, some magazines are more conventional than others, depending on the subject matter and the audience.

Cover page terminology

DPS layout

Explain what genre/hybrid genre of magazine you produced (rock, pop, glossy lifestyle, etc) and discuss some of the magazines that you took your influences from. Add some pictures of these.

 

PRESENTATION SUGGESTION: Use Presi for your analysis of your three pages and link the Presi to this post.