The document discusses the design of a magazine cover and contents page and how it uses and develops conventions of magazine design. Some key points: - The magazine cover uses a masthead, consistent colors, serif fonts, cover lines, and anchors the main image like typical magazine covers. However, it uses a medium close-up image rather than close-up to fit its niche college audience. - The contents page uses consistent colors, photos, page references, serif subtitles and numbers, and rule of thirds composition like conventional magazines. - Minor changes were made from draft designs to better follow conventions - adding more cover lines, repositioning the image, and arranging images and text on the contents page

1. Masthead
Is bold and at the
top of the page
Consistent
Colours
Serif fonts
Dateline
Cover lines
Text anchors
image
Name of
person on
cover stands
out
Main cover
line
Rule Of Thirds Rule Of Thirds
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?
On my magazine I have put the masthead at the top of the page
just like GQ have. The image I have used is a MCU, whereas on GQ
the image is a close up. This means that I have moved away from
the conventions of a men's lifestyle magazines as it is directed at a
niche market, to fit the TA of the college magazine. Throughout my
magazine cover I have used a consistent colour scheme, like the
GQ cover. My colour scheme was white and pink to brighten up the
page whereas the GQ cover has used very regal colours to make
the magazine look classy and stand out to the audience. Although I
kept my cover lines minimal unlike GQ, I did use a mix of serif and
sans serif fonts. This keeps a theme to the magazine and allows it
to follow codes and conventions. The cover lines were kept to the
sides of the page just like GQs. I have included a flash in my cover
unlike GQ as the as I thought it was effective and filled up an
empty space. The main cover line does not anchor the image like in
GQ but it does stand out which allows the reader to see whether
or not they wish to read on. I have used rule of thirds throughout
my cover which is an effective magazine technique. The name of
the person on the cover is bold on both magazine covers, which
allows the reader to decide whether or not they will be interested
in the contents of the article.
The cover page I produced is
very similar to the one I
produced at the beginning of
the course. However as I was
making my cover, I decided that
more cover lines were needed
as the paged looked a little
bland without them. The image
was situated further right than I
imagined however this fits with
the rule of three and makes it
easier to read the text as there
is no overlap of colours.

3. Contents title
Date line
Consistent
Colours
Selection of
photos
Page
references
Serif sub titles
and numbers
Rule Of Thirds Rule Of Thirds
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?
I have also used rule of three on the contents page. I
included the contents title and date in sans serif, to fit
with the codes and conventions, and again I stuck to my
colour theme off the cover of the magazine so it
completed the theme, and stuck to the genre of the
magazine. I chose to use three appropriate images and
page references. As well as this I chose to put an image at
the top of the page so that I could keep the ‘college’ in
the colour white to again fit in with my theme to follow the
codes and conventions of a student magazine. To make
the page references and numbers stand out, I chose to put
the writing in bold, and in the colour that again is used on
the cover of the magazine.
The contents page I produced is very similar to the drawn
draft I made at the beginning of the course. The only
difference of this is the images were scattered around the
page, however I felt that this did not fit in with the rule of
three or fit in with the theme of the magazine. Therefore I
changed it so that the images sat in the right grid of the
page and the text was anchored over the images.