Post on 13-Aug-2015
Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
Use
I am going to talk about the techniques I have picked up from other magazines such as colour
scheme, layout, images, fronts,positioning, reputation
Use
Colour SchemeThe colour scheme
is similar to this John Lennon special
Q magazine with the gold border, the gold representation a stereotypes view
of winner and success which also draws people into
your magazine focusing on the main part of the
front cover, such as the text which may draw people into the magazine and
the headline image
Front Cover
The Positioning and layout of the things on
the front cover is important because within
the front cover looking great who would buy your magazine, the front cover sets the tone for the rest of the magazine, such as
my inspiration I have used the same shot type the close up showing the facial expression of the featured artist and the reader connecting with
the artist. Also the positioning of the text
around the artist such as other artist within the
magazine can be key to getting readers
Use
Positioning
Front Cover
UseImage
The image is key for gaining reader I
picked the close up shot was a great
shot to use the eyes of the chosen artist connecting with the reader and also the personality is shown
well through this type of photo.
Another reason this photo shot is great is for right in your face when you look
at the magazine
Front Cover
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Colour Scheme
Colour Scheme as you can see in the two
images are the same border and the colours
such as the black photo’s and text and also the advert being
the same colour as the logo and my featured
artist top. Colour Scheme is a great way
to connect the magazine pages
together and give the magazine and success
and slick feel about the magazine
Contents Page
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Positioning
Positioning you got position to draw the page together, I seen
the techniques used of the picture of one side and the text around it on another magazine
and liked the look of it so, I adopted it to suit
my magazine and drawn into together, NME
contents page is similar to mine with similar
photo’s and text draw people in like I think I
have achieved
Contents Page
Use
Image
The Images I used I think were a great way to drawing people into my magazine, showing and range of artist and
events without this images the contents page would not be
appealing and also the magazine would be
really boring and the contents page from
NME is good because it has a great layout so
you can see everything on the page, my
contents has an advert from subscribing to the
magazine which is a great way to get more
people subscribing
Contents Page
Use Double Page Spread Colour Scheme
The Colour Scheme stays the same with the gold being show in the advert for his
local gig and also the basic colour of black and white
within the page still and in the article. The white text
and black background comes together well and also the
gold keeping with the border and theme and also the
advert for next weeks issue is a colourful background
showing being different from any background showing that you had a new and updated to
date issue every month
Double Page Spread
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Positioning
The Positioning of the images is key for drawing in people into the magazine and also the text
because if you see a double page spread with too much text on it, will just draw people away from the page and just skip the page
but with the right amount of text and images and also a range of colour in the right positioning is key, without the right position
you may gain the impression of successful, otherwise you will
gain the impression being boring and lazy layout
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Image Double Page
Spread
The image is a great way to draw people into the double page spread, the reader would be the first
thing they seen is the title and the images so if the images don't link together it will seem
unsuccessful and lazy and also linking the
photo together brings the whole page
together as a whole
Develop Colour Scheme
The main I developed within my magazine
was the colour scheme with the gold colour scheme staying the
same through out on my front cover,
content page and double page spread this is a great way to
link the pages together and giving out the
same expression, the gold giving a strong
expression of successful and winner
Develop Images
I developed my image from my inspiration with
the front cover image being in black and white because the Jon Lennon
on the Q featured in dead unlike my
magazine genre being now upcoming artists and up to date that is why I kept my image
basic colour’s, linking to my magazine name (Fresh) and genre.