1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR
CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
QUESTION
ONE

2. FRONT
COVER
These are some of the magazines
that I looked at. I chose to look at
NME and I could see a clear design
to all of their magazines with the
‘NME’ in the top left corner.
http://www.nme.com/magazine
I decided to use this
magazine to base mine
on. This is because I
thought it had a good
design to it and it was
busy as it had more than
one image.
This is my front cover for my
magazine. It is a similar design to
the NME one however I have
used my own colours. I noticed
that on the NME cover some of
the main writing was the same
colour so I used this same idea
for my cover. I have also used a
similar picture as it is ¾ length
and all three people are looking at
the camera.

3. CONTENT
S
These are some of the NME
magazines that I found. Two of
these magazines both have ‘NME
THIS WEEK’ along the top and
they all have a band index on the
side with inside stories on the
other side.
I decided to use this
contents page as my
base as I thought it
was well designed.
However I felt like it
wasn’t busy enough so
I added my own touch.
This is my contents page. I used a
similar design but with my own
touch. This is shown with the blue
writing to match by front cover. I
also used a solid red colour at the
top with a small black line
underneath as I thought that it
would make the page seem a bit
more full and lively.

4. DOUBLE PAGE
SPREAD
Here are the double page spreads
that I looked at. There is a main
trend that there is an image on one
side of the page and writing on the
other. There is also a theme of
black and white images.
This is the double page spread
that I based my DPS on. It
isn’t very busy so I decided to
add some of my own little
details on it.
This is my DPS. It is a similar
design to the NME DPS that I
based it on. I noticed that the
text was wrapped around a
text box and a circle box so I
did the same for mine. I added
my own details as I added a
quote on the left hand page
and a little added part to the
story at the top.

5. WHOLE
THING
Through out my magazine I have
used a main colour scheme of
blue, red and white.
I have also made it link
throughout my magazine as the
main story on the front cover
links to my DPS. Also my page
numbers for my DPS match with
My band that is on my front
cover is followed through
my magazine as they are
mentioned on my contents
and also my story is based
on them.