Evaluation Question One

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

After researching music magazines it became clear to me that I needed to use bright colours, large fonts and interesting images in my work for it to be around the same level as a real music magazine. I was really interested in the idea of news bulletins in my work, and of how to add this to my own creativity. I added a competition to my contents page which I thought provoked attention to my page and made it more intising.

I have not particularly 'challeged' any part of the music magazine industry as I feel that by sticking to the regular types of music magazine would create a sound product. I found it extremely difficult to make decisions about fonts and colour and so having a class full of people who were creating the same sorts of things was very helpful as I received many opinions on my work.

Whilst going through my work I found it important to keep going back and comparing my work to my research; I did this by comparing my own photography to the real images I had found in my research.