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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?

When creating my front cover, I have challenged and developed the forms and conventions of a real front cover design. Through my research, I have been looking and analysing Q magazine to help stimulate ideas for my own magazine.

I like the colour scheme because it reflects the theme and genre of indie, I kept it simple because I want the audience to focus more in on the contextual aspects as oppose to design. I copied the consistency of colour from existing material because it looks more professional , the consistency of colour allows the audience to engage and have a deeper connection with the magazine as it flows better.

I had chosen to copy a Q magazine in particular due to my masthead being one letter R meaning Retro. Q magazine helped me with the positioning of my masthead. With regards to my masthead and Q as the masthead.

In order to make my magazine have the same codes and conventions of a current magazine, I made sure I included everything that this Q magazine had on it. I did alter and change some parts of it to make it my own as you can see, there is more text on the left as oppose to the right, however I tried to follow the basic structure of the magazine. I took inspiration from Ed Sheeran's photograph and created that in a similar way with my model, I also made sure that some of the text would overlap the model slightly similar to what Q magazine does.

I placed a barcode on my magazine as that fits any magazine codes and conventions.

I created my own shadow behind the model because Ed has a slight shadow behind him similarly I wanted to re-create it on my own. The layout of my magazine is structured similar to an existing product, as you can see, I've tried to follow a similar structure to the following magazine with Ed on.

In order to get the right style of language suitable for my cover, I did a bot of research about what people like to read about and what the language is like. I created some short, but interesting sublines to want the reader to be intrigued about what inside. I used a variety of shapes to help split up text and make some things stand out amongst other parts. I followed the structure of the Q magazine with the large circle on the right with text overlapping, I also used small green rectangles to split the right and left hand thirds up, this is a convention found on the majority of magazines. With regards to costume and prop for the cover, I wanted the model to wear something suitable that will represent the genre of Indie. I did experiment with different outfits but this jumper was most suitable for what I wanted. The guitar helps the audience know that he is not just a singer but a musician, it also fits in nicely with the Indie theme.

The fonts I played around with to begin with, but I think I found suitable fonts with relate the genre but also look quite similar to the current Q magazine especially on the left and right hand thirds. With regards to the name of the model Elliot Gowling and The Best stories told.. I wanted to find a chunky, loose font making it look more interesting. I used blending options to make it stand out on the page more by increasing bevel and emboss.1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?

When creating my contents page, I researched various current magazine designs again to help inspire me to design my own in a similar way and stimulate ideas. I was influenced by Q magazine, as I thought the layout looked very professional so I decided to try and re-create the conventions of this magazine and challenge them slightly. Similarly to the front cover I have developer and challenged forms and conventions of existing material. I followed closely the codes and conventions of images and layout as a whole, by using a variety of different images across the page it allows the audience to have a better understanding of the content of the magazine. I took a variety of different image types because typically that what a current magazine would consist of to make it interesting. I have used mainly long shots and mid shots. The location of my images in a way follow similar style to the current magazine as you can see, one is outside, another one is at a concert and finally one is of a musician playing their guitar. The main image is the concert which the main artist is playing at.

Overall, the colour scheme are similar to the front cover this is to keep the house style consistent throughout. The masthead is in the right hand corner which follows a typical magazine structure.The numbers on the page are positioned exactly the same as the Q magazine.

The only challenge I did was placed number 37 to the right and over the picture, also I decided from that I would also place the smaller numbers in the features column to the right in order to make I flow better for the audience. The house style of this contents page is consistent from the Cover because Ive used the same colour scheme.

The masthead is there on each page, the font is the same from the cover, also there is a date in the right hand corner, the model is the same as on the front. The house style makes a magazine look professional, every magazine on the market today has house style to provide a specific look and layout to that magazine. The use of a mouse click symbol allows the magazine to show that it is also online which means with regards to the audience it can reach larger audience members because more people tend to us the internet as a basis for research.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?

When creating my Double Page Spread, I again challenged and followed the codes and conventions of existing current material. I decided to use the current Double page spread as a base for my own. I kept the same layout however, moved certain things around to fit the positioning of the model. I used some of the same conventions from the existing magazine so that I could apply it to my own.

With regards to the colour scheme, I used the main colours that are in my masthead and adjusted the page to fit around the colours of the masthead to emphasis the consistency and flow of the magazine, alongside the consistency and house style of the magazine.

The photograph chosen for the background was an original image I took in Camden market in London, I wanted to get the city of London but not through as such an obvious representation like the current magazine DPS featuring Ed Sheeran. The photo is quite ambiguous in a way which may help the audience as it may interest them into what the article is about.

The masthead has been placed to each corner of the pages similar to what existing magazines do. I've kept the same model throughout my magazine to show the link between the three pages. With regards to the text I've kept it very similar to the existing copy and used columns to address the article, that way it keeps is neat and tidy and looks structurally effective.

I used a quote in a white box to emphasise the quote.

With the positioning of the model I challenged this from a current magazine as the shot I took was mid shot. Purposely I wanted to capture the model laughing slightly or smiling, this in fact challenges the majority of existing material because usually they are not smiling and look rather serious.

Identifying the audience:

Focus Group- questioning peoples preferencesQuestionnaire sent to a variety of people from different age groups and results analyzed which came to the conclusion that Indie was the most popular chosen genre.Click to edit Master title style

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