In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media products? 

Compared to my preliminary task my music magazine has its own unique style but does not overtly challenge the norms forms and conventions of a magazine. Since I have developed my final design from my research I

have really developed the conventions of my chosen media product.

After finally finishing my magazine noticed a number of similarities that shows that I have followed a number forms and conventions. I do follow the rule of thirds For example the name of the magazine centred at the top. Then in the first and last third shows what the magazine features without seeing the contents page; all text has been arranged in front of the photograph and also the barcode which is not featured on this particular example. I have adapted the colour scheme of the example and like others I have editied the photograph to black and white. Both have similar clothing which is smart but at the same time cool looking. With trying to have a my model to have a facial like the research example but try and play around with the pose making it that more intriguing. I also changed the font that was used for the logo of the magazine, trying to make it relate to the name but at the same time be as unique as possible.    

With my contents page I used similar themes from my research, but really my own version of it. Like said in the process of my research and making of the page, I know

that it resulted to one idea in particular- that picture takes up quite an amount of space of the page, so I have done this but in a different way. Facial expressions in both my page and the example are a like and are also like the picture featured in my front cover and

most of the pictures in my double page spread. So this theme is carrying on through out the magazine. Additionally the way text and wording has been used as well as placed are also alike, font size is average and text has been arranged in front of the picture in

the right had corner. To add to that I used a gradient tool in InDesgin  that gave the brown coloured background a shady effect, so colours are similar to the picture. So

comparing the two there are a number of similarities showing that not many forms have been challenged. 

Again I used research to develop my ideas, and once again I chose a theme to continue with my contents page, where the photograph will take up a majority of the space. At the end of this task I wanted my pages to link in  some shape or form, I think that I have achieved that but I think that it can be improved as the contents page does have a completely different colour scheme. Having doing some additional research I did noticed that this was common among magazines that in a certain issue that a theme will go through it and this is what I tried to do. So again I was conforming to convention. In terms of the actual look I like that how text photos have been placed it is quite similar.