1. In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. I used photos from indie magazines such as Artrocker and Jazz magazines such as Jazzwise. I also looked at various photo’s on the internet which represent the Indie and Jazz culture. As you can see, the images on either side of the page contrast each other. The indie photo’s I found showed cocky, hedonistic youths and the jazz photos I found showed sophistication and class. I wanted to fuse these traits together and create fun loving, individual image which has a sense of class and sophistication in the music they listen to.
7. I used the same sans serif font as the front cover and used a masthead to show the month of the issue. I used a column which is a structure for contents pages used in real media products. I arranged the photo’s to look like old, Polaroid shots which adds to the rustic and classy feel of the magazine . I wanted to distance my magazine from gossip magazines and therefore put separate headlines in a sans serif font to divide the contents into separate areas – all music orientated to show my magazine is for serious, possibly pretentious music lovers. I used a sub-heading to create a fresh, quirky image for the contents page.
