The document discusses how the media product, a music magazine, uses and develops conventions from real music magazines. Specifically: - Two magazines, i-D and another, were used as style models for layout, simplicity of design, soft colors, and minimal text. - The title is prominently but not overwhelmingly displayed. Contents pages and spreads do not include the title based on one style model. - Images are used as the main focal point, with cover lines and text intended to encourage reading the inside. - A minimalist, black and white color scheme is used, with some important words highlighted for the contents page. Color is also matched from a photo to title text on a spread.

1. 1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
media products? (i.e. of music
magazines)

2. When researching magazines that involved my music genre; POP, I found 2 magazines that I used
as 'style models' when making my magazine. I felt in order to make a magazine that fitted my
genre correctly and made it look original I decided to incorporate both aspects of the 'style
models' onto my magazine front cover. The two 'style models' that I chose are were;
The aspects from this i-D front cover that I tried to incorporate in my magazine was
the simplicity of it, I wanted the main focus for my front cover to be my image and i
feel this magazine 'style model' has the same focus. Also what I like most about this
front cover is that they haven't include 'harsh' colours they have used quite 'soft'
colours and I wanted my magazine to show have this feel to it as well.
However the aspects of this magazine that I liked was that the cover line was in the
lower third of the page because I feel that it tells you a lot and it stands out a lot
which I tried to make happen on my cover. The main focal point of this front cover
that I included on my cover was the 'minimal' amount of text that was include. The
reason for having 'minimal' text on my front cover is so that the reader wants to see
more by opening up that magazine to see what is inside and because this magazine
in particular fits in with the 'POP' genre I feel my magazine front cover that it fits in
well with this.

3. The title of the magazine
I wanted the title of my magazine to standout and be noticeable to my target audience however I didn't want
it to be too big meaning it would cover up a lot of my model or for the font to be too bold. I feel I achieved
this with my end mast head and the way and how it is present on the cover of my magazine. I decided not to
use the title of my magazine on my contents page or on the double page spread this is because I felt that
there wasn't a neccerity to do so and one of my 'style models' that I was mainly focusing on didn't do this
either.
Graphology/page layouts
The way in which I set out my front cover was for the image to be the main focal point as I mentioned before.
I wanted my image to be the main focal point because this is what I wanted my target audience to see first
and then I wanted them to see my cover lines and to read them after they have viewed the image. I used a
contents page from the February/March 2014 issue of Wonderland magazine as my 'style model' for my own
contents page, I chose to use this as my 'style model' because it again was minimalistic and it had a nice
layout with the pictures and it clearly stated what to expect on each page.

4. Colour scheme
My overall colour scheme for the whole of my magazine is black and white, however on my contents page I
changed the colour of some of the more 'important' words to make them 'stand out more'. Also on my
double page spread I used the colour matching tool on PhotoShop and I colour matched the blue colour that
was in Shannen's (Marissa's) dress to change the font colour of my title of my article (MARISSA) to this blue
colour because I wanted it to tie in with my picture that was on the right hand side of my double page
spread.
How your artist is represented?
My artist is represented as a ‘friendly person’ this I shown by the way that I positioned the camera when I
was taking my photos. On my cover my model is shown with her hands on her hips and smiling, this shows
that she is friendly and open. On my contents page I used a ‘head shot’ of my model, whereas on my double
page spread my model ‘posing’ more making her look more serious but still ‘friendly’.