1. Question One:
In what ways does your
media product use,
develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real
media products?

2. In the process of designing and making
my magazine, I have tried to develop
similar features which are currently on
magazines which have a similar style to
my own.
When designing my magazine I have
taken into consideration and have
been inspired by the fonts, colours and
the structure used by other magazines
and images.

3. My first inspiration for the Music Magazine came from this
“Billboard Magazine”. I chose this cover as it is a similar
magazine to the one that I would like to produce myself.
The magazine uses similar artists in the magazine that would
feature in my own product, which is a reason why I was inspired
by this magazine.
However, overall even though I was inspired by this magazine
cover, the adaptation and development of it for my own magazine
wasn’t able to work.
As the cover image for my
magazine is very different to
the Billboard cover image, I
found it difficult to place and
create the masthead on the
cover.
It was difficult to place the masthead so it was in line with the cover
image which is a necessary criteria.
The model in the Billboard cover image has there head straight and
has a moody pose in place. Whereas my own model has her head on
an angle and is tilting her head back and is smiling. This is creating a
different atmosphere and mood, compared to the magazine that
originally inspired me.

4. Even though it didn’t inspire me
overall for the design and layout of
the cover. This Beyoncé cover has
inspired me in the editing process of
the photographs to the right.
To improve the design of the
magazine I horizontally flipped the
pictures, this was to let the writing ,
like the text on the Billboard cover,
be on the models hair so the text
stood out.
I also enlarged the picture and made
went into a close up shot, as this
was to make the reader feel more
connected with the audience.

5. As I felt that the Beyoncé Billboard cover didn’t fit the type of
image that I wanted to portray to the reader, and didn’t meet the
criteria’s I was looking for, I changed my inspiration cover.
I changed my inspiration cover to the Adele Vogue cover, which is
shown to the left. This was because I felt that the Vogue cover
looks sophisticated and classy, all the things I wanted to portray to
my reader as well.
I have used a similar layout to the Vogue cover, however I have
not used similar colours. In the text of my magazine I have
developed the idea of the main features being in a bolder colour
compared to the rest of the text.
Like other magazine’s I have placed the masthead at the top of the
magazine cover, as when it’s view on a shelf it will be the first
thing a consumer will see. As it would be the first thing a
consumer will see it needed to be bold and stand out so it will
attract the reader.
I was unable to find a magazine cover which had the cover model
looking away from the camera, so this was one of the reasons I
had chosen this image to be on the cover.
I have not put a price on the front of the magazine, as I have
chosen to place the price and the barcode on the back of the
magazine, as this improves the structure and presentation of the
magazine. This is an idea that the Vogue magazine cover has also
done.

6. When designing my music magazine cover, I
decided to use the same Q magazine cover that
I had previously used as inspiration for my
school magazine. This was because I wanted to
develop and improve the structure of the
magazine further onto my music magazine.
I have chosen to use two images, which are
also black and white on my contents page.
Unlike the Q magazine, I have used the same
model in all of my images. The larger image on
the Q magazine cover, shows a long shot of the
band featured.
However I wanted to show a close up image in the contents page. A picture
which shows power and authority, and a model who is the main focus,
representing the target audience who are reading the magazine.
When designing my music magazine I looked at my school magazine that I
had originally made and I used a similar structure on my music magazine.
However when viewing and analysing my school magazine, I tried to see
what could be improved and developed, so I could use it to improve my
own magazine.
Even though I have used a different colour scheme, I have used the colours
in a similar way to the way they are used in the Q magazine.
I have also used similar wording to the Q magazine, as it is a similar age
group and type of music my own target audience are.

7. When designing and constructing my double page spread, I researched different double page spread
layouts from existing media products to inspire and guide me in the structure and build of the
feature. I have developed this existing media product and constructed it to fit the layout and design
of the magazine. Unlike the media product, I have not placed my image in the centre of the double
page spread, but I have placed it on the left hand side of the page. This was so that the model in the
picture looks like she is looking at the writing on the right hand side of the page, showing a
connection between the model and the writing, to portray to the audience that the model was saying
the speech on the opposite page.
I have developed and constructed similar features from the media product, shown top left, as it has
helped to improve my own magazine cover to make it look more professional. Like the media
product, I have chosen to make the title speech, and have chosen the speech marks to be a different
colour to the speech.

8. I have taken inspiration from this Adele picture for
my own photographs.
I like this image as the deep thought look that
Adele is portraying shows emotion. I wanted to
create a similar image for my contents page. This
image gave me inspiration for a black and white
photo magazine, as I like the style and the quality
of the picture.
In order to create a similar black and white image,
I used a white/cream background for my image,
this makes the model stand out more.
I have also chosen to dress the model in black as
this emphasises her face when the picture is black
and white, as the background is white.
I also tried to make the make-up of the model
look as simple and natural as possible.