Evaluation task 1

In what ways does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real magazines?

My magazine uses some features of real magazines, when researching magazines of "pop" genre; the conventions of the magazine would include an eye catching title usually of a bright colour, cover lines, and a picture of a celebrity for the front cover. Following my research i decided to use the forms of real magazines to create my own based on the genre. "Billboard" magazine uses one celebrity for the front cover i used this as inspiration to make my front cover similar and i placed the image of my model in the center of the page, the effect of this is that it stands out for the audience. Both "Smash Hits and Top of the pops" use bold titles and cover lines so i was able to use this as a guideline to create my magazine. The only difference with my magazine that possibly challenges the form of pop magazines is that my model uses an acoustic guitar was used for the front cover and usually guitars are seen on rock music magazines and not on modern day pop magazines.