Ways magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

1. In what way does your magazine use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?

2. Front Cover - Use
Looking at the Liam Gallagher NME
magazine I took a lot of ideas and
inspiration from it as I firstly noticed the
masthead and the title being the same
colour of red and almost the same
height and width I thought this was a
good idea and used it. I also used the 3
different colours of text for the cover
line at the top.

3. Front Cover - Develop
For my own magazine I decided to stick
to the same positioning of the cover
lines that are on the NME one but with
obviously different content. I also
decided to change the red text you see
on the Liam magazine to white with a
drop shadow which I think fits very well.

4. Front Cover - Challenge
I did however decide to make Brad the
model on my magazine front cover face
the opposite way to Liam on his NME
magazine. This makes it look as if Brad
was gazing at something. I also believe
as he is not wearing glasses like Liam
we are able to see his emotion more, or
lack of it. This is effective as it is
typically seen on magazines of the
indie-rock genre which I subsequently
chose.

5. Contents Page - Use
When I looked at the overall look of the
NME content pages they make,
however I think that the key to it looking
so clean and easy to read is by putting
the main 5 subheadings straight down
the right of the magazine so they don't
take up much space. This meant that I
could then even further enlarge my
cover and smaller image making the
magazine as a whole a lot easier to look
at and read.

6. Contents Page - Develop
In terms of developing my magazine
from the one created by NME I simply
changed the colours around on the band
index. This is a small change but a
worthwhile one as it was very quick and
easy to do. I feel like it gave a lot more
to my magazine, brightening it up as well
as the main colour of it (red), matching
with my masthead which is the exact
same colour of red.

7. Contents Page - Challenge
In my contents page I decided to
challenge the NME contents page I was
looking at and taking inspiration from as I
believed I could add value to my own
magazine that the NME one doesn't
have in having a smaller image. This did
not threaten the size or appeal to the
viewer that the large image creates
however it did make the magazine much
more visually pleasing.

8. Double Page Spread - Use
As the cover image is the main focus on
every double page spread, it is what the
reader gets drawn to straight away as it is
visual. This meant that when I looked at
the Ed Sheeran magazine straight away I
decided to copy what they've done in
putting a pull quote on the centre of the
person. This is because as the reader
looks to the image they will be drawn to
this pull quote next and a pull quote is
designed to make the reader want to
read on.

9. Double Page Spread - Use
To make it easy for the reader to follow I
made a small introduction of one column
but then stuck to the normally seen 2
columns in magazines. It reads down and
then to the left and down again which is
again the norm seen in all magazines not
just music ones.

10. Double Page Spread - Develop
As this standout letter on the Q magazine
behind the text is effective in improving
the appearance of the magazine as I think
it's a good touch. I believe it is very basic
and therefore I put a twist on it, I wrote
Panic the name of my magazine in a faint
red behind the text so the text was still
easy to read however it boosts the look of
my double page spread a lot in my
opinion.