Evaluation 1.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

One way that my magazine uses conventions is by the style of my title/logo of my magazine. I have used it on both my front cover and contents page this is because I want to show continuity through out my magazine. I decided to keep the title in black because it is simple and bold which hopefully will catch the readers eye. The magazines NME and Q which I have taken inspiration from also have quite simple logos. The name is NM which stands for new music, I chose that because it mean new music relates to the genre of the magazine. I decided to put new music underneath the initials because then people will know what it stands for. 

 The font that I used on all my pages is another important convention. This is because the writing must be readable and clear for people to see. I have decided to keep the black writing on the white background so it is clear for the reader, this is on my contents page. I wanted to keep the writing big, thick and bold this is because I want it to stand out to people. Something I have done different is put the black writing on the maroon background the reason I done this is because many magazine put white writing on dark backgrounds and I wanted to do something different.

The final convention what I have stuck to is having a skyline and different puffs on the front cover. I decided to have the skyline as these always offer something that is free in the magazine and advertising something free might attract people to the magazine. I also decided to add puff this is because many magazine out there have puffs so it is an easy convention to follow also the puffs advertise things inside the magazine and this may attract people to the magazine.