Magazine Evaluation

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

There are a few common conventions my magazine shares with real media products (magazines).

The way i have laid out my magazine follows the style of a few well known magazines, the text had been placed to the side of the image in a way which does not obstruct it, my subject image fills the front cover so it becomes obvious the feature article is about the artist displayed on the cover.

I tried to keep a minimal style inoreder not to over crowd the frontcover simmilar conventions can be seen in the magazine 'Fader'( http://imfmag.com/2009/08/07/drake-covers-fader-magazine/ )

I also used conventions of popular magazines on my double page spread, i ensured my main image and smaller images do not lie on the crease line so the are in full view when the page is folded

A consistant colour and style has been used throught out my pages to make it easy to identify they belong to the same magazine, this also a magazine to flow.

However my contents page challenges common conventions i wanted a stylish but accessible design which would allow the reader to easily identify the content of the magazine while still containing some key features to make the page interesting and attract the readers eye. To do this i decided to split the page this allowed the text to be read easily and articled to be displayed better