1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products? (i.e. of music magazines)

2. (left top corner)
Route of the eye.
This is the masthead.
This is the masthead.
Sans serif fonts; These are the cover line.
Couple of different
fonts.
Principal of thirds.
1st third ends where
her eyes are. 2nd
third ends is the top
These are the cover line. of Becky Orton.
Principal of thirds.
1st third ends where
her eyes are. 2nd This is the cover line.
third ends where
the ‘Plus’ is.
ISBN Pull quotes. ISBN
Mostly black and
. .
white colours.
This is the cover line.

3. The title "Contents"
Eye catching colours. Eye catching colours.
The blue banners. The blue banners.
Pictures and captions
Pictures and captions
Principle of thirds
1st third ends top of the
numbers on the photos.
2nd third ends the bottom of
Route of the eye
her crop top.
Principle of thirds Pages numbers and
1st third ends the top of the what’s on them pages
numbers.
2nd third ends where her
left hand is.
Mostly sans serif fonts
Pages numbers and
what’s on them pages
Route of the eye
Mostly sans serif fonts

4. Route of the eye Big picture taking up 1 page
Kicker- article starts
with a big first letter
Principle of thirds Pull Quote
1st third ends
after the third line
on the pull quote.
2nd third ends at
the ends after the
picture.
Captions
A important question Page Numbers

5. Big picture taking up 1 page Headline
Pull Quote
Kicker- article starts
with a big first letter
Route of the eye
Principle of thirds
1st third Principle of thirds
2nd third 1st third ends on the
first pink line.
2nd third ends at the
end of the pull
Captions quote.
Page Numbers
Pull Quote

6. The title of the magazine;
• Foundations; is the basis of pop, and an album
title of Kate Nash. I came up with about 10
different names with had some sort of related
to pop, and I decided on the one which I liked
the best. I also wasn’t a title which had ‘O’s
‘D’s and ‘A’s in so I could use the idea from the
magazine Billboard and colour in the letters.

7. Graphology/page layouts;
• The model of my magazine is an F model. If
you look at a lot of the billboard magazine
covers they’re F models. I liked the idea of
having the writing just down one side of the
page. Also magazines like seventeen and
topofthepops layout their front covers with
the F model. All of these magazines have the
masthead covering the top part of the page.
Its either in front of the artist on the front of
behind them.

8. Costumes, props, iconography used to
reflect genre;
• For the first photo shot I did, the costumes
which I had picked were not poppy enough for
the genre of my magazine. I reflected on this
for the second photo shot I did by selecting
three outfits I thought you’d find in a pop
magazine. I didn’t feel the need for the use of
props in my magazine as I couldn’t think of
anything to have which suited the genre.

9. Camerawork and framing of images;
• As I have two front covers, one with a closer shot from the chest up
and the other one from the hips up. I took a selection of different
shots for my front cover, close up shots and longer shots with her
whole body in. I found that close up shots worked better because I
wanted my title ‘Foundations’ to be over their forehead.
For my contents page I liked the idea of having a full body shot; one
because you’d get to see the whole outfit, and two because I
wanted my artist to be in an action shot. I wouldn’t of been able to
achieve this if I was to do a close up shot of just her face.
I originally wanted my artist for the double page spread to be
blowing a kiss, but I changed my mind and asked for her to look all
sweet and smiley. I went for the typical hands of the hip photo for
my double page spread, with her wearing a sweet summer dress.

10. Title, article, header etc font and style;
• The font throughout my magazine has almost
stayed the same. I used the font ‘Times’ for
most of my headings and for my article.
I looked at different articles in pop magazines
and took some inspiration from them. As I like
pop music myself I also asked questions which
I’d like my favourite artist to answer
themselves.

11. Genre and how the magazine cover,
contents and spread suggest it.
• The genre of my magazine is pop. This is shown on the front cover by the bright
colours, e.g. Pink and yellow. Also the outfit my artist is wearing. My artists look
pretty and sweet on the front cover, and just by looking at the front cover you can
tell that it isn’t a rock magazine. The pull quote “it feels like one big dream” gives
the genre of the magazine away, as you wouldn’t find a rock or mental artist say
that. The cover lines and stories down the side of the page have big pop artist
names in like Ed Sheeran, One Direction, The Wanted etc.
My contents also has bright colours on, with the title ‘Contents’ in pink. There is a
picture of Little Mix and James Arthur who are also artist that are currently in the
Hit 40 UK charts, which again suggest my magazines genre; pop. My magazine
features pop artists like One Direction, Little Mix, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, showing
the genre of my magazine.
My double page spread title is “Little Miss Perfect” taking the name from Little Mix
and how a lot of pop artist looks in magazines “Perfect” and put it into the title for
my magazine double page spread. The title suggests that it is pop genre, as again
you wouldn’t find a double page spread title in a magazine of rock or heavy
mental.
My magazine suggests that the genre is pop by the pictures, my artists and the
colour schemes.

12. How your artists are represented;
• My artist is represented as a sweet and pretty
character through the pictures which I
selected for my magazine. Also the way I have
dressed my artist shows that she’s quite an
outgoing character and you can straight away
see that she is a pop artist by the way she is
dressed. On most of the pictures throughout
the magazine she is smiling, which shows she’s
a very happy girl.

13. Colour Scheme;
• My colour scheme stays the same throughout my
magazine, I’ve taken the pink I’ve used to fill in
the letter O, for my content page title, the front
cover, content page writing and for the questions
on my double page spread. I’ve also used the
blue from the letter D in the title for the pull
quote on the and for the writing on the front
cover.
My front cover, contents and double page spread
don’t have any dull colours on it, they’re all bright
colours which stand out.