Evaluation: Question 1 - In what ways does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Use

 I have copied elements from other pop magazine contents pages to make mine look more appropriate for my genre. For example I have copied the layout of the columns as in pop magazines. they are all situated in neat columns. I have also got ideas of other magazines for my cover lines, I have looked at them to get a rough idea of what too include on mine like fashion and music downloads ect. By doing this, this represents my genre as in stereotypical pop magazines, this is what is included. Also the colours I have chosen has been copied of other magazines, I researched on what colours are more appropriate for pop music magazines so I could use them on mine. I chose these colours as they make my magazine look more of a pop genre as they are very bright and colourful. I used the colours from top of the pops as they were suitable for the genre I was doing, but I also added the colour purple as it also is associated with a pop genre.  Also the love hearts next too the 'inside this week' has been influenced by other magazines as on pop magazines these sort of things are used as they are seen as 'girly'. I also kept the fonts within the box's the same and also the sizes as the Top of the Pops magazine as I felt this was more suitable for my genre and suited it.

Develop



I have developed my contents page as I looked at other pop magazine's like Top of the Pops for example and got a few idea's from it.I needed my contents page to look similar to there's so I used box's to put my coverlines and stories in as they did. I added extra effect by putting drop shadows on the box's as it looks more like a pop genre. I also put a few images on which I took of make up and nail varnish as that's what is associated with a pop magazine. Also as I put an image of my magazine at the top left corner with arrows coming of it on which pages certain things are on, this is also from top of the pops but I challenged this by using a different type of arrow technique's coming from the magazine.
 
Challenge


I have used heart shapes coming from from the magazine cover page image I put on to show what pages the main stories are on. I challenged this as instead of just writing the numbers out like the Top of The Pops magazine did, I put them in hearts to make this more detailed and suitable for my genre. As they are pink, this sticks to my 3 colour rule which represents my magazine genre. I also challenged it further as on the box's my cover stories are in, I put a darker drop shadow on them to make them more noticeable.