Evaluation

I feel my media product that I produced uses the conventions of a real media product to an excellent extent. The genre of my music magazine was ‘Indie Pop’ which I felt was a strong convention of music to follow when creating my own media product. I studied and researched into the genre of Indie Pop to understand be able to develop on the concept of this genre I have chosen. I was able to discover ample amounts of conventions I could use from the real product to my own production. Whilst studying other indie pop magazines i chose to focus on magazine in particular which was Q magazineThe reason being that this magazine i felt carried the conventions i wished to carry onto my media production. The conventions include a use of simple and dark colour palet's usually consisting of the colours black,silver,grey and white. I used this convention of an Indie pop magazine on my media product. When creating my magazine cover i chose to use the colours black , white and silver as i feel they embody the colour palet that are linked to an indie pop lifestyle. This was a convention i followed through to my contents page. I again chose to keep the colours to a limited palet of three , those colours being grey,white and black. When creating my double page spread i again to chose to the same colour palet except in this case i decided to use a midnight lilac colour on the font throughout the interview in the spread. I feel this is a convention many magazines and indeed indie pop magazines use as the double page spread is always more central and important and therefore different in its use of colour.