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

During my research and planning for this project of making ad designing my own magazines, I took style models such as Dazed and Confused, Clash, The Fly etc.... and also the graphics that had been put into the magazine. To make my magazine successful I also looked at what genre had been used, this is how I decided the genre of my magazine would be indie, I chose this also so that it suited the age range I had chosen at the start which was 16-24 year old's. For my front page I took inspiration form a few different magazines (clash, Q mag, faded, dazed and confused, the fly) i used the left hand side third, as my title was to pone side of my magazine. I adopted ideas from these magazines and aspects of all of them will be found on the front page of my magazine. I wanted to be consistent throughout my magazine so I used the same pictures, fonts and colour schemes right the way through my magazine, these were white, black and blue, this is a three colour rule. By doing this I gave my magazine a lot more structure. I first placed my masthead so it was central but then when I had take my pictures, it looked better to the left hand side at the top and this layout suited my magazine a lot more. After taking my picture from my photo shoot I had to decide which the best was suited for my magazine and when I had chosen I had to edit it to make it look presentable and modern I enhanced the photos brightness to make the colours of their blue tops stand out. I also chose to put the band name and album name on the front page of my magazine to draw in peoples attention as they would never have heard this before and it will be new and intriguing to the eye. I followed the inspiration the 'The Fly' magazine for this subheading on my front cover of the magazine. I placed the bar code on the bottom right hand side of the magazine as dazed magazines have done, however I didn't follow the exact placement of the bar code and there's is horizontal and mine is vertical. For my contents page I was hugely inspired by the magazine esquire. I followed the layout of the contents more a less exactly the same, I may have moved a few bits around and used other magazines for slight inspiration but the main idea came front the esquire magazine. I chose to have the word 'contents' going down the side if the page but not vertically written, again taking inspiration from the esquire magazine. I decided to put a picture in, like esquire did, however Instead of photo shopping round a small image I decided to have a full size image slightly to the right of the contents page as I feel it draws the readers attention in and its dominate to the text on the page. I took the idea of having magazine contributors also from an esquire magazine however a different one and I placed it in a different place on the page to others. I chose to included social networking sites as due to my target market been 16-24 year olds they are involved with a lot of Internet socializing. For my double page spread I didn't really have a particular magazine that inspired me, for writing my article I thought f the idea from scratch then I took bits and re worded them to put in my article, the inspiration for this was from a Faded magazine. The layout of my magazine I took inspiration from a magazine called Clash, I like they way its all spread out and on the page and its not all crammed in, i have used

white space also including the left side third. I feel it draws the reader in straight away, as the big header showing the bands name immediately strikes us as the audience and stands out. I have used the same font throughout the magazine so its consistent. As my article wasn't a question an answer, I didn't have to use any bold text during the article.

I used several magazines to create my final magazine, i got ideas from all over so the final piece, i then developed them into my final magazine idea to get a professional original look, different than any other magazine that already exists on the shelf. I had to challenge my idea as its not like any other magazine out there its one of a kind, this will be tested in production against others that are already out there.