In what ways does your media product use, develop

or challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

I Developed my house style and use of colours by analysing real magazine front covers and stating what I liked and disliked about each, this helped me to design a front cover that had the style that I liked the most. Q and NME magazines were two of my favourite magazine styles so I took the typical red look. Although I Preferred The special graphic effect front cover like Q magazines Red Hot chili peppers. I chose the neat and controlled look for my front cover.

I used Multiple picture reference with my contents page.

And a simple multiple picture double page spread…..

I used up all my dead space with a bar code, date and price I also included a header and a footer to kill the dead space, I've left white space behind my subject for impact and appeal.

On my contents page I have left white space at the top for impact and appeal. I have filled all the other space with pictures and text with a contents list in the

In my contents I have used up all the space with photos however the main photo has a lot of white space behind it for impact, the rest of the space is used up with text and tour dates, there is also a red box that I added below the article to take up space.

I Used the conventional look of mainstream indie/alt magazine style, such as the likes of NME or Q magazine, my double page spread story linked into the likes of NME’s drink/drug culture of music. I was inspired heavily by the two magazine covers below.