Q1 – In what wars does your media product use, develop

or challenge forms and conventions of real media

products? Josh Murphy

Front CoverThe cover image is placed to the left, which is used in several magazines made by Kerrang(One of my rival magazines) I decided to have the image at the side because it allows all of the information to be placed on one side of the page, which I prefer to the others which is usually b bit scattered.

The colour of my magazine is Blue, Black and White. I like the way that blue goes with black and white, as well as the most popular colour chosen in my questionnaire being blue.

The masthead on my cover is using the mesquite std font, I chose this because it looks rocky and has a gothic feel. I decided that having it large was the best way, along with the main headline it’s the first thing that grabs the views eyes. The title is simple and explains everything in the magazine in just two words.

The language used in the cover lines is simple and informal, which perfectly applies to my planned target audience. I used a different front to my masthead, as that font should never be used in any others, the font used in these is Poplar std,

EXAMPLE

Contents page I have used four photographs in my contents page, one of which is of my front cover for the editors note. The other three are all relevant to the subtext related to the image, such as a guitar for the ‘Monthly guide’ and a picture of Sean for ‘Sean's Reviews.’

I have three columns of text, each with various headlines and subtitles with matching information with each headline. The writing in the columns isn’t overbearing and is nice and simple, explaining what they can expect to find inside of the magazine.

The headings on the page stand out from the rest of the text, this is done so that the reader will instantly recognise the headlines, and so that repeat readers will easily be able to find the section they could specifically be looking for and what page it is on.

The colour scheme used on the contents page follows that off the front cover, I did this because it is instantly recognisable which magazine the page belongs to, and so that views would get used to the colour and would associate the colours with my magazine.

Once again I decided to use simple, informal language for the contents page (Just as I did for the front cover.) I chose to do this because it welcomes people to the magazine, and so it doesn't feel like a lecture book, more of a fun interesting read.

Double Page Spread

For the double pages spread I took pictures of Josh Fortune and placed it on the left side of the page, for the coins in the background I took a picture of several coins and copied several of these on top of each other to give the effect of lots of money. I used the coins because of Josh’s second name, Fortune.

Once again I have three columns, these are spread across a single page as the image is used on the other.

The heading is bring and standout, it will be the first thing the reader sees when looking at the page, it mentions money with links with Josh’s second name and the background image.

Again I used a similar colour scheme, but I did not implement the colour black onto the page because with the coins in the background it would not stand out, I use standout colours and images in my magazine, so it would not be keeping with the tone of my magazine.

Unlike my contents page and front cover, the double page spread uses slightly informal language, I did this because the interview is informative, but at the same time it is not to serious, so some aspects of it are informal, so it’s still enjoyable and not a chunk of text from a school book