Finished Magazine Cover And Evaluation

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

Our finished magazine cover both challenges and conforms to the conventions. This is because as our music video conformed to the conventions of girl bands so well we decided that it would be a good idea to challenge the conventions in our magazine cover. We researched into magazine covers that girl bands featured on and we found that it was mainly lads magazines such as FHM, we decided that this was not the look that we wanted to go for therefore we decided that we were going to conform to the conventions of rap magazines. Throughout the research that i did i found that most girl bands feature in teen, glamour or lads magazines. Therefore we then researched the conventions of rap magazines we decided that we were going to conform to these as this would then be something different to what we did in the actual music video. We stuck to the conventions throughout the layout and the fonts and colours used. I believe that we did this really well and achieved what we wanted from this.

How effective is the combination of your music video and your ancillery tasks?

The combination of the magazine cover adds effect to the music video this is because it adds the effect of realism to the girl band. It makes the band seem more real and as if it is an already famous girl band. The magazine cover brings the band and the members of the band to life. This is because with more tasks done about the band it makes us seem a lot realer and more famous. Although we decided to conform to a rap magazine instead of the normal teen pop and lads magazine covers. I believe that the magazine cover that we have created compliments the music video and achieves what we wanted which was to advertise the band and to promote the album that the band are releasing.

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

As a group we did not create any specific audience feedback sheets for people to fill out about our magazine cover however from the sheets that we created for the music video we found that they all thought that we stuck to the conventions of girl bands. We did do some oral feedback on the magazine cover and from this we found out that some of the people that evaluated our magazine cover thought that we could of tried to conform to the conventions of magazine covers that other girl bands were in and not try to experiment with the rap genre. However they did say that what we have done with trying to challenge the normal girl bands magazine cover and conform to rap conventions did work well.

How did you use the media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?

Different media technologies was necessary throughout the creating the magazine cover. This was because we needed the internet to research into the different magazine covers that we were going to try and emulate the conventions of. Also we needed to use the internet to upload the images onto the magazine cover from the photo shoot that we did with our friend from school. Also we needed to use word to create the magazine covers.

Would you change anything if you could go back?

If i could go back and change anything i would make sure that i created more magazine covers maybve i would try and create on e that followed the conventions of a girl bands magazine cover instead of going for the rap genre. Although i believe that the rap genre worked, i should have experimented more and found out which was the best one to use.