Evaluation Question part 1

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

Magazine Article

How did you choose the name of your magazine and other miscellaneous?

When it came to selecting the name of the magazine I decided that the best course of action was to create a simple title that would go in the right top corner of the article and so I went for ‘NYC Times’ with the actual page being a film reviewing page simply called ‘New Films’.  Here I followed the conventions of traditional reviews in magazines by using devices such as drop caps when starting the article and in addition to this using multiple pull quotes. In using these I selected the best quotes to use in order to catch the reader’s attention and pull them in. In conjunction with this I also added multiple pictures to take away the plain feel of the magazine and instead liven it up.

Why did you choose the colour scheme that you used?

The reason I chose the pale blue colour scheme is because of a number of reasons. The first being that after I had read a number of different review pages I noticed that the articles that stood out the most were ones with bold writing and images that stood out from the background and so following this the background should be of a mellow nature putting the reader at ease and focusing more on the writing and images rather than being distracted by what was happening in the background. Furthermore upon asking fellow classmates as to how my background worked in contrast with my previous attempt (bright red) they said that it was clearer to read and much more welcoming to read rather than aggressive.  Also I decided to keep the bright red colour scheme for the star rating system as it contrasted well with the blue and made the article stand out from ordinary ones.