The student created an indie punk magazine called "AMOK" for 15-30 year olds, modeling it after "MOJO" magazine. To distinguish it, the student used a unique four-letter title in the center of the page in Gothic font. The cover layout and colors of black, green, yellow, and white are intentionally uncommon. In another distinction from typical magazines, the contents page uses only black and white for unpredictability, while inside pages use blue, white, black, and burgundy.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The Genre of music that my magazine is aimed at is Indie Punk, and the age range is 15-
30 years old. Because of my age range I could not make the cover as messy and wild as
the genre requires, however I was still able to add features that you would associate with
the genre in their.

2. Like the genre, my name is very strange and unique, I chose AMOK for its initial
impact its not a name that you are likely to here often therefore it will stick in your
mind and there will be only one association, my magazine. This wasn’t my first choice
for my title though, I originally planned for it to be AMPLIFY, however after
experimenting with it, I could not find a suitable way of positioning such a large name
on my magazine, therefore I was forced to change, and now my four lettered title fits
symmetrically directly in the middle of my page much like my style model, MOJO. For
my font I used Gothic No.3, this is the font which I believe best resembles that of
MOJO’s which is the style I was looking for, I had tried fonts such as Perpetua Titling
MT however I thought that they looked to harsh and blunt which are both traits of
what I believe to be a Heavy Metal Magazine.
My Magazine Name & Font

3. The Cover layout is also
very similar to that of
MOJO’s, there are a
couple of heading and
quotes and then a large
subtitle, however I had
to adapt the positioning
of these things because
of MOJO’s free CD
giveaway. The reason
MOJO is laid out the way
it is, is to accommodate
for a CD, unfortunately
my magazine does not
offer a free CD so the
layout had to be slightly
different.
My Cover and costume
For my costume I
asked the majority
of my artists to
wear modern indie
punk clothing, I
then asked my
cover artist to wear
a White dress this
was to ensure that
she was clearly the
main point of focus
for my audience.

4. I originally decided to take my photographs against a blank white canvas, however after
taking them and applying them to my magazine I soon decided that they were too plain and
boring my for genre so I decided that an outdoor shot was required and I came to the
conclusion that a secluded forest was my best option.
Cover Photo

5. The colour scheme that I went for in my
Cover page was Black, Green, Yellow and
White, I chose these colours because of
their tendency to stand out against each
other, especially black and yellow. I also
used these colours as this is not a
combination that you would often
encounter, like my magazine it is
uncommon and unique and I wanted my
colour scheme to reflect that.
Cover Colour Scheme

6. For my contents page I decided to add a
twist and move away from my flamboyant
colour choices and experiment with a
simplistic and bland Black and White colour
scheme. I did this so that it would follow
the theme of my magazine genre, Indie
Punk unpredictable and individual. No
other magazine has experimented with
such a radical difference between their
cover and contents and like my magazine, I
wanted to be the first.

7. However I felt that if I implemented this scheme into all of my pages then it would
get a little tedious and boring therefore I went for a Blue, white, Black and
Burgundy scheme for my double page spread to inject some life and personality
into the magazine.