The Evaluation of my Magazine
Now that I have finished my magazine I can evaluate it.
How does my product use, develop or challenge forms conventions of real magazines?
My magazine mostly follows conventions to make it realistic, attract its audience and be successful. I believe that unconventional magazines, while more artistic, are less likely to be successful and thrive.
I looked at my chosen genre and target audience, an Indie rock magazine aimed at students with strong connections to their music, and developed my ideas from there. I came up with the design, the colour scheme and the masthead based off of the style of my genre and I also used a questionnaire to help determine what people would most like to see in my magazine and to make it conventional.
I took inspiration for my house style from another conventional magazine, NME, and used it to help me work out the most efficient way to lay out my magazine.
A house style is a consistent design style that is kept throughout the magazine to show that it's all part of the same magazine. For example, keeping the font, colours, image types and layout similar on every page
My cover features conventions such as having the Masthead in the top left corner, having the band name across the centre and keeping coverlines and additional information (dates, issue no., etc) to the side so that they do not distract from the image, which is also conventional as it uses a common mid shot with the talent in the centre of the page rather than to the side. The colours are also dark, conventional of an indie magazine, and the image itself is dark and grungy to represent the target audience.
Contents Page
The same house style is kept throughout my contents page, sticking to conventions with the heading 'contents' at the top and the list of the magazines contents down the side with images of people featured in the magazine. The page is in black and white which is conventional and makes it easy to read.
I used a contents page from NME magazine to help decide the layout of my own contents page, using the black and white colour scheme but with my own style imbued with it to create a more original looking page.
Double Page Spread
My double page spread features images and text, following the housestyle by keeping the same font used at the bottom and the top. The colour scheme has changed to fit the mood of the band featured but the overall style of the images and the editing remains the same. This is only a part of what would be a four page section on the made-up band. I chose to use the main singer, the same talent featured on the cover, for the bigger photo and then the two other band members in little framed photos beside it.
convention
kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/
noun
1.
a way in which something is usually done
I looked at my chosen genre and target audience, an Indie rock magazine aimed at students with strong connections to their music, and developed my ideas from there. I came up with the design, the colour scheme and the masthead based off of the style of my genre and I also used a questionnaire to help determine what people would most like to see in my magazine and to make it conventional.
I took inspiration for my house style from another conventional magazine, NME, and used it to help me work out the most efficient way to lay out my magazine.
A house style is a consistent design style that is kept throughout the magazine to show that it's all part of the same magazine. For example, keeping the font, colours, image types and layout similar on every page
My cover features conventions such as having the Masthead in the top left corner, having the band name across the centre and keeping coverlines and additional information (dates, issue no., etc) to the side so that they do not distract from the image, which is also conventional as it uses a common mid shot with the talent in the centre of the page rather than to the side. The colours are also dark, conventional of an indie magazine, and the image itself is dark and grungy to represent the target audience.
Contents Page
The same house style is kept throughout my contents page, sticking to conventions with the heading 'contents' at the top and the list of the magazines contents down the side with images of people featured in the magazine. The page is in black and white which is conventional and makes it easy to read.
I used a contents page from NME magazine to help decide the layout of my own contents page, using the black and white colour scheme but with my own style imbued with it to create a more original looking page. Double Page Spread
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