Research for evaluation 1

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

Conventions I have used:

·      Masthead

I     I wanted my masthead to stand out and catch the reader’s eye and that’s why I used ‘Kerrang’ as my style model. They are both bold and reflect the genre of the magazine and relate to the target audience. I also had to think carefully about the colour as it had to set the house colours of so it stayed the same through out and also so it linked to the background, text and images. In ‘Kerrangs’ magazine they have some images covering the masthead or they have the masthead on top of some images but they can do that because they are a popular and well known magazine.

·      Mode of address

This is part of the interview in my magazine which is on the  double page spread.

·      Sell lines

TThroughout my magazine I have use a variety of different sell lines to catch the audience’s attention.

·      House style

·      Gutters

  

   Quotes

New changes from audience feedback.

From considering my audience feedback and deciding that I needed to make some changes myself I made a few changes on all of my pages.

Audience feedback evidence

 

Audience feedback

From putting my magazine on a social media site here is some of the positive feedback I got.

• easy to read
• eye catching 
• they knew what audience it was aimed for
• they love the colours, they work well together and are constant throughout
• like the way pictures are set out
• they like the text
• they like the way I have used the twitter and facebook icons
• the colour scheme complements that its a rock genre 
• they love that I have used buzz words
• It attracts the audience attention 
• the way the images have eye contact
• the text on the double page spread as 'it is quite conversational making the audience feel closer to the group and maybe feel as though they know the group on a more personal level'

Audience feedback

I put my magazine on a social media site to get some audience feedback and I got some really positive feedback and some suggestions of changes.

some of the suggestions I got: 

• The masthead on the front cover was to far to the left
• On the front cover the two shapes which are white with text in, to change them to a darker colour
• try doing the background images as a fade
• masthead and more text more bold
• maybe put price on front cover 

I have took some of these onboard already and I have made some changes, the changes I have made are:

• I have moved the mast head on the front cover more central
• I have changed the shapes to darker colours to fit in with the house colours so that they are constant throughout

The changes that I am going to consider are:

• Making the masthead and more writing more bold to make it stand out more
• Try fading the background images 

I have took onboard about the price being on my front cover but I have this on my contents page and I prefer it there as also do other magazines have the price on the contents page.

Changes made to my contents page

As I was about to put my contents page up for audience feedback I realised a mistake which I had made. On my contents page I have a screenshot of my double page spread and I had made changes to my double page spread which was moving the text to the right. After making these changes I forgot to change the screenshot to the new double page spread on my contents page.

here is the old one...

here is my new one...