3. • I incorporated the use of a Similarities
barcode and date which is
found on most magazines, • On this cover (one of
giving a professional many I chose to draw
appearance. inspiration from) I liked
• I used similar words such as the idea of a grass
FREE in auto shapes to entice background as I believe I
the audience, attracting their could re-enact this as a
attention. rave scene. Due to
• I used bright colours for my weather conditions, I
front cover, which I noticed was forced to use a grass
on many dance magazines effect digitally. However,
whilst researching. I think this I think this worked well
reflects the upbeat nature of as it is modern and
the genre and the idea of bright, which attracts my
fun. It is also very bright, target audience of late
therefore grabbing the eyes teenagers to young
of the audience if it were adults.
being sold, as opposed to • The layout of my cover is
blunter and more basic also similar in that there
colours merging into the is blank space around
crowd of competition. the model to allow for
cover lines and wording.
4. • As well as using the idea of • I don’t think my magazine
bright colours as influences challenges the forms and
for my dance magazine, I conventions of the real
also noticed the media products I
incorporation of related researched as it has a
props with my research – in similar audience and
this cover a boom box is appearance, and I worked
used. Therefore, I decided on that to produce a similar
to make my model wear outcome.
headphones to relate to the
idea of music and disc
jockeys. I think this was
successful as it uses bright
colours. I also used the
colour of these to link in
with my edited background.
• I also varied my use of
fonts, font colours and text
throughout the cover, like
the covers I researched. I
kept this controlled
however to keep somewhat
of a consistent house style.
