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

2. CONVENTIONALStructures of magazines These are a few examples of conventional magazine front covers. The mast head is usually at the top of the page to endorse the brand. Other common features include the main image and the cover story line across the middle of the page. The similarities that I share with conventional magazines are the bold title fonts and eye catching colours. I also have high quality images and have similar amount of text present on the page. The differences include the main image position. Most have their images coming up from the bottom where I have mine coming from the top left corner.

3. Front cover inspiration I love the colour pink! And from the examples below, ‘pink’ plays and important part. It conveys a sense of cuteness and femininity, perfect for my target audience -14 to 17 year old girls. I particularly like the bold brand titles with the sparkle effect and shine. I tried to make my own distinct title with a fancy font and gradient colour. I also added a gold bow as yellow compliments pink, as you can see from the examples. My model also looks similar to the girl below, blonde hair and big eyes. In Japan, it is a big trend to look western. I wouldn’t say that my magazine is exactly conventional or challenging the means of conventional. It includes similar elements but my own creativity played a huge part of the process. These sort of Japanese magazines have inspired my final output. Despite that I'm trying to appeal to the UK market mostly, having similar qualities to the Japanese magazine will help me appeal to the Japanese supporters in the UK. ‘Ageha’ and ‘Popteen’ are very popular brands amongst girls. They provide the latest trends and fashion tips including cosmetics. Despite that they don’t relate to music, their attractive appeal sells. That is why my magazine looks similar, I wanted to create a fun and cute product. I also added the price in Yen(¥) and Dollars($). I include a competition instead of a free item.

4. Contents page Research material Despite my Japanese theme, I decided to make the contents page similar to the examples beside. They are of UK and USA conventional layouts. I used a main image of the model to highlight that her story is the main feature. I also included another picture of her eyes to captivate viewers. Iwanted the text to go down in two columns so that it would look too crowed all on one side. I think that this product out of my other two is the most conventional to existing magazine. However it does include a cute factor with its glowing text and nebula over layer. The research material with the drawings had inspired my own logo. The Japanese characters were created on Paint, it means ‘Music’ in English. I thought this would be cute to include and also allow Japanese readers to be able to vaguely guess what the magazine is about (if a copy wasn’t available in Japanese). Conventional structures continued I set the layout as two columns, similar to the research magazine covered in drawings. I also ensures that the text was readable, not only does the glow act as an attractive appeal it allows the text to be readable with the heavy pattern background.

5. Double Page spread Research material Apart from the ‘Rihanna’ magazine, an overcrowded double page spread is cute! This is a trait of Japanese DPSs! Following the biggest research material magazine DPS, I created my own similar product. I have used bold titles in quirky fonts and my colour theme is similar; yellow, pink and white. I haven't used the conventional UK layout however you could say that I’m following Japanese conventions. As I'm appealing to Japanese lovers, having similar qualities will help my product sell! Although I have some UK conventions such as using shapes to highlight quotes, similar to the ‘Rihanna’ magazine. I have used several layers to produce my DPS, this is also a trait of Japanese magazine. Conventional structures continued