In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I chose my magazine title as AMOK initially because I thought it was short, straight to the point and unique ( which is what my indie rock magazine is about). I based the title around the magazine WIRE. I stuck to keeping the four word lettering and chose the type of font impact. I spaced the lettering of the title out across the top of the magazine. I chose to keep the font of the title plain white, again the same as WIRE. This is because I wanted to keep it simple, effective and look professional. I felt that if I used bright colours in my magazine title or on my magazine in general it would not look as professional and would not fit in with my indie rock theme as am basing that genre around being minimalistic. I chose the big bold lettering as it is easy to read and stands out. The word AMOK means to behave uncontrollably and disruptively, which I think fits in well with my music genre, indie rock as that is the stereotype in which we would describe the type of people that would listen to music such as indie rock. Because of the minimalistic effect i chose to stick with a very simple colour pallet on my cover as this tends to be what a lot of big magazines go for as gathered in my research.Initially I did want to go with a monochrome colour pallet but as seen in my preliminary it didnt work as well as I would have hoped. After my preliminary I searched for general Indie Rock magazines and many had simple low control colours, nothing to bright or fancy, everything was very plain, which is what made it effective and focused more on the music rather than the presentation. I used two types of font for my magazine cover. One was Impact Bold, which Is what I used for the big mast head and the Artist band names. The other font I used was for the barcode and that was simple Arial bold. Again this shows the simplicity of my magazine.

Although presentation is a key aspect in making a magazine I had to bare in mind that Indie Rock is a type of genre that is rough around the edges which is what I wanted my band to come across as and hopefully displayed that in the whole magazine. The page layout I chose was to present my front cover very similar to WIRE magazine. The way in which my magazine has challenged WIRE magazine is that I have incorporated two types of their own double page spread and tried to create an interesting and different DPS.