My media product challenges conventions by using color on the contents page rather than a plain background. The color scheme matches the front cover and is intended to make the magazine stand out. While most magazines feature the main artist on the contents page, mine only includes pictures of featured artists to avoid clutter. The double page spread uses a simple black and white background to reflect the artist, without a stereotypical large central image. A pull quote is used as the heading to immediately give the audience an idea of the story.

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenges forms
and conventions?
Masthead
Looking at the two front
covers if I was to compare
my front cover which is on
the left hand side to the
one on the right side the
both have a colour scheme
to although the one on the
right is very simplistic
however my magazine
shows off its culture and
also the colour scheme
could represent the artist
culture.
Main image
Sell lines
Both have
websites
Both have
barcodes

2. With my contents page I have additional images and text, most of the backgrounds that I’ve seen on
content pages have been colourless and plain so I decided to use the same colour’s that I used on my
front cover on my contents page. The reason why I never done a colourless contents page is because I
wanted my magazine to stand out more to my audience. Most magazine’s would have a picture of
their main artist on their contents page but I decided to just use pictures of the featured artist in my
magazine first of all I didn't want my contents page to look cluttered so I only used two pictures and
also only have a few pages listed.

3. In my double page spread I decided to use a natural black and white background so that the simplicity of it reflects on my artist, I decided not
to make my double paged spread look stereotypical by this I mean making my double paged spread have a big fat image of the artist either in
the middle of the page or on one whole page. I also used a pull quote as my heading on this page so that when my audience looks at the page
they straight away get a rough idea to what the story is about.
Page
numbers
Pull quote