Evaluation Q1

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

Mise-en-scene
Through my images I have shown that it is a country/pop magazine as Chloe is wearing an MTV top to how the pop aspect of the magazine. Georgina is wearing a check shirt and neutral coloured chinos which shows the country side of the magazine, I also included a guitar to also add to the country aspect of the magazine. I decided to use a plain wall in the background so that the target audience is focused on the artist and nothing else. I have chosen quite a light area to take my pictures as my magazine is quite has quite a light mood to it and isn't generally a dark genre of music.
Contents Page
My contents page is generally short as listing all of my content as listing all the articles would make the reader uninterested in the magazine. My contents page contains band logos so that the reader is aware of who is featured in the magazine, it includes images of the artist to show the artist a 'seek peak' of what is included, and i have also chosen to write a list of some of the key features of the magazine.
Layout
I have used a general layout in which most successful magazines used which corresponds to the 'z' rule. I have decided not to pack loads of information and text in to the magazine as people don't want a long piece of text as from experience and feed back from my target audience it is better to have 'the facts' than 'an essay'. I have also changed my colour scheme from the original beige and browns as it looked to dark and 'sameish' so I chose to change it to a bright red, white and black.
Text
I have chosen to use my double page spread for most of the magazine's written content and not placed a lot of text on my contents page as when I did it was too cramped and crowded so it did not look professional. the type of content I have included is quite informal as it resembles a celebrity interview, so it is meant to have an informal approach to it. 
Fonts
The font in which i have included are not very consistent as each part of the magazine it quite different and from my research i have seen that only some of the fonts are consistent but they use different ones to get a different response from the reader.
People
I decided to use these 4 people as they all currently do media studies and all know what is needed of them to help me complete my magazine, I have used them in two different photo shoots to show variation within my magazine, and to meet the criteria of the task. I decided to use Rebecca and Georgina for the country part of the magazine as they had to right types of clothes and Abbie and Chloe had the right kind of clothes for the pop part of the magazine.
Clothes & Props
I chose to have them where checked shirts and simple white top to show the genre of the music magazine. I also used a guitar in my pictures as most country even some pop magazines use guitars in their pictures to show the genre of the magazine. I also included a microphone implying that she was singing/practicing the single.
Title
For my title I called it Strings and I used a very simple font that conveys the look of string and links to the fact the it is a country/pop magazine and most country/pop artists use and play guitars.