The document discusses the choices made in designing various elements of a magazine. For the front cover, the creator took inspiration from Kerrang magazine and followed normal conventions like having the title span the page and including a barcode. Feedback confirmed the articles followed normal layout conventions. For the contents page, inspiration came from how another magazine split up the word "contents." The creator felt rearranging the words helped with layout. For the double-page spread, no major magazines provided inspiration as the ideas were original, but some conventions like how interviews are presented were followed. The outcome was pleasing without too much reliance on conventions.

1. Evaluation:
Ability to refer to choices made

2. Front Cover

3. A lot of my main inspiration for my front cover came from Kerrang
magazine, this is because Kerreng magazine caters for the same
music genre as I wanted my magazine to cater for, therefore Kerrang
would be the correct type of inspiration to use for my front cover. For
my front cover I have incorporated normal convention a lot. Examples
of this are my magazine title my magazine title spreads across the
whole page which is of normal convention. I have also followed
normal convention through my barcode; I felt that by following
normal convention for my barcode it would be a lot easier for me to
position everything else on my front cover. Feedback has told me that
I have followed normal convention with the layout of my articles, and
it sated that ‘the articles follow normal convention because if they
didn’t then the articles would be all over the place and would be over
the models face’ I feel that the overall outcome of my front cover has
been successful as it is clear, well organised and follows normal
convention well. I also believe that my front cover is very effective in
targeting my desired audience.

4. I took inspiration from
Kerrang about the poster
special, even though this
idea was originally my
own, I phrased it this way
after seeing this magazine.
I took inspiration from Kerrang for
the arrow that is at the bottom of
my front cover.

5. Contents Page:

6. For my contents page the only real inspiration that I had was from a
magazine called vibe. I found this magazine whilst looking for
inspiration for my preliminary exercise, I really liked the way the
word contents was split up, I found it very original and I thought I
would try it to see how it worked within my preliminary exercise
and I thought it worked really well, and by it working really well I
decided to take the idea through to my final media product. Looking
back over my preliminary task I feel that by me moving the words
‘contents’ from right to left has helped me layout my contents page
more effectively. I feel that I have followed normal convention with
the way I have presented my contents page listing as they are
usually to the left of the page, however I feel that I have disregarded
the normal convention of the use and layout of pictures on my
contents page, I think this because normal layouts of magazines in
which I have researched such as Kerrang, have a lot of pictures
crowding their contents page, however I decided to go basic and the
layout of my contents page were of my own ideas, and I feel that
this has worked really well and the final outcome of my contents
page is well presented, and it is successfully targeting my desired
audience, and I also feel that the layout of my contents page is very
clear, and this is what I aimed for, therefore I feel that the overall
outcome of my contents page is successful.

7. Preliminary Task
Final Media Product
Inspiration

8. Double Page Spread:

9. For my double page spread I took no major inspiration from any magazine, as all the
ideas are my own. I would say that in some aspects I have followed normal
convention with my double page spread; however I do not feel that they are as
obvious as my front cover or my contents page. As some double page spreads that I
have seen during my research are of the double page spread including a full picture
one either side of the page. I tried to do this convention however I did not feel that
it worked well with what I was trying to achieve, this meant that I had to take a
different approach. I then saw a double page spread with a film reel with pictures
going across the pages, found that this was a good idea so I tried it, and it was
successful. I was really pleased with the outcome of my double page spread as I
didn’t follow as much convention as I could have. The major convention that I
followed during the making of my double page spread was the way I presented my
interview, I have seen a few different way to presenting the interview in a double
page spread throughout my research, however I feel that many of them do not
work very well, and this is why I chose to follow normal convention. I am happy
with the final outcome of my double page spread I feel that it is well organised and
isn’t boring. I also feel that I have used the correct amount of pictures, as one of
the main things I tried to avoid during the making of my double page spread was to
not have enough pictures and too much writing as I felt that this might put my
readers off.