Within his music magazine, the author uses various forms and conventions on each page. On the cover page, he uses different sized text and graphics to draw the reader's eye down the page. The main image features a rap artist in typical clothing to indicate the genre. On the contents page, he employs different fonts for headings and uses color images. The article page breaks conventions with a headline that flows vertically and uses multiple fonts, colors, and sizes within the text and images to make it visually interesting.

1. “Evaluation”

2. How have I used forms and
conventions within/throughout my
music magazine?
Cover page

3. Within my cover page I have used a range/wide variety
of forms and conventions. One of the many forms and
conventions that I have developed within the cover of
my music magazine is the text; the text within my
cover page is a statement because of the Bold and
black on white text therefore creates a stand out effect
for my text on my cover page of y music magazine.
Throughout the page as a whole the text starts off
larger at the top half of the magazine and then
proceeds to become gradually smaller along the
length/way down the page.

4. The graphics on my cover page are there to make my music
magazine cover more visual, so that my audience that I am
aiming my music magazine also have more to look at on the
page, therefore using a variety of graphics ensure that the
cover of my music magazine is still constantly intriguing and
not just another boring music magazine on the shelves.

5. The Main image on the other hand is another form of my
cover page, I have the artist dressed and clothed in typical
rap style/clothing to suggest to the audience that this is
therefore a rap magazine, I also have the artist modeling a
typical pose of a famous rap artist, and I also have him
modeling a white out ski mask to give my cover page more
of an effect so that my cover page doesn't just look like any
other rap magazine on the shelves, but gives my cover page
the character which others do not have within the bindings.

6. My selling line is at the bottom of the page rather than your typical selling line in
which you have it at the top of your magazine. This is because one I had no space
at the top of the page to produce a selling line and two in my opinion it looks
better on my magazine at the bottom than it would contrast at the top and
therefore that is why my individual selling line is at the bottom of the page rather
than at the top of my cover page.

7. How have I used forms and
conventions within/throughout my
music magazine?
Contents

8. Within my Contents page I have used a wide variety of
technical aspects to ensure that my contents page is at its
possible best. One of the many forms and conventions that
I have used to ensure that my contents page is produced at
a high quality/standard is that my contents page contains a
wide range of fonts and one of these many fonts (artistic) is
used within the headline of my contents page. The
headline is bold and again stands out from the background
of the black to ensure that it draws the attention again of
the reader. The font used it is very different from normal
fonts and therefore this will make it more interesting
towards the reader of the magazine and again makes it
stand out from the rest of the page. This is not necessarily
what you would want from a contents page; for everything
to be standing out on the page.

9. Other fonts used within the contents page include others for the subheadings etc.
and these fonts also stand out on the page because of the black outline that I gave
to some of them such as the word fashion, and “times gone bye”.

10. The main image however takes up the whole of one half of the page
and also gives the contents page a bit of colour because the rest of
the contents page is very monotone (black and white) therefore giving
it the colour from the image on the page will therefore lift the whole
page on a whole all together. The pose again as shown in the cover
page symbolizes that of an artist fro the rap industry and is very closed
in his hands gestures What also gives this away is the gold watch of
the artists normally many rap artists are not afraid to show there
wealth off so therefore show a lot of there wealth throughout there
costume/clothing and what they wear. Rap derives from the American
streets/background/culture and therefore the colour of the artist will
determine the genre of the music to in which/in this case the artists is
black and therefore this is the culture that is perceived to heavily
influence the rap industry and therefore this is why I used a black
model so that people will understand the genre of the music better.
The style and clothing also of the model/artist is also very similar to
that of a rap artist and therefore again this influences the genre of the
magazine in which it being rap.

11. The heading down the side of the page gives the page more content to the
page and isn’t another normal headline and therefore for it being along
the side of the page it differs the page from being all one style and adds to
the character of the magazine on a whole. The word “future” suggests that
the artists may be the future of the genre/industry and the way it is
embedded in the headline that runs along the side of the page
downwards, for a change. I have also included other conventions and
forms such as the date in the top hand left corner of the page of my
contents page. The background image of the contents page is that of a
concert and therefore thus the graphic brings a little something else to the
table rather that just being a normal boring background colour on the
contents page.

12. How have I used forms and
conventions within/throughout my
music magazine?
Article Page

13. My article page shows various forms
and conventions and one of these
being the heading that flows down
the page rather than across the top
of the page (horizontal), this
therefore breaks convention rules.
But breaking the rules/boundaries
can be a good/successful thing in
some cases. It also makes the page
more visual and therefore the reader

14. The headline font is different from the rest of
the pages within my magazine article. The
others include a flow of the similar fonts such
as Impact etc. where as this I tried to change
and differ it up a bit so that the fonts, colour
and style of the headline stands out on the
page. I used pink within the colours of the
page and title because the colours black and
pink mix well together and look clean on the
page providing a professional look to the page

15. My article page has many styles of fonts, colours, size
etc. and this doesn't’t differ from the actual article
itself, the text is In 3 different colours one is the pink
that runs throughout the article page, another is the
red of the questions and the last is obviously just the
plain black of the text. The different font styles,
which include 3 provide a change within the page. I
have also included a drops capital within the text to
breakdown the text for the reader. In the bottom
right hand corner of the page there is another text
that reads Exclusive interview and the page number
in again a variety of fonts where as in previous pages
I have usually stuck to the same font or similar fonts
but within my article I changed my methods to make
it more interesting to read.

16. Within my article page, I also included these
features such as the
Twitter page of the magazine and the Twitter
page of the artist as
Well. The twitter Icon/graphic also breaks the
page down again giving something else to look
at on the page other than the 2000 plus word
within the article.

17. I also embedded a quote within the article
page from the artist himself, this is also in a
different font and colour/style because as all
the text is different from one another to make
it more abstract on the page I produced the
quote as a different font but the same colour
that flows throughout the page, but in a
different shade of pink contrast to the rest of
the page beacsue if the same colours are
flowing throughout it will just make the page

18. The main image on the
article page has the
model/artist looking
direct at the camera/eye
contact. This is because it
therefore directly involves
the reader within the
page, it gives the
reader/audience a sense
of feel that the artist is