Magazine evaluation question
- 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. Regarding my magazine, it is clear to see how it develops real media conventions concerning the layout and the theme of the film. The theme of the film is a UK drama based in the suburbs, but finding a magazine that incorporates the same type of film we were creating and that also manages to look respectable was extremely difficult.
- 3. The main UK film magazines were Empire and Studio, the common theme in these magazines were that they all had a main character featuring in the main cover of the magazine. This is a good marketing tool as it draws people to want to buy the magazine, especially if it was a character that they recognised or felt they had a relationship with. So what I decided to do was to use the main character in my film and to put them into front page of my magazine.
- 4. I wanted to present m y character as being someone that is so extremely glamorous and very known in the acting world, just like they did tin Empire magazine and Studio magazine. To do this I dressed her nicely and fashionably because I knew that is what would draw readers to want to buy the magazine. Something else that I used in the making of my magazine was the film title. One of the most common film magazines in the world Is total film. I wanted to use this name for my magazine to make it more known.
- 5. However the ways in which I challenged real media conventions regarding the type of film I was creating was the clothing that my model was wearing. There were not many examples to go by on the subject of my film magazine, so I had to improvise. I wanted her to look glamorous, so I looked at different glamorous models and actors.
- 6. The pictures I found that stood out to me were of women wearing newspapers which denoted how famous they were. We wanted our film magazine to be unique as possible and to stand out, so I made a piece of clothing for my model out of newspaper.
- 7. Usually film of my theme would not incorporate this type of magazine in any magazine. Many of the films that we looked for inspiration in the making of our film, did not have the budget to feature in other magazines, which made it hard to find inspiration whilst making the film. However, the inspiration that I found was in fact very helpful and I did take aspects of it whilst making my magazine cover.