Masthead Is bold and at the top of the page Consistent Colours Serif fonts Dateline Cover lines Text anchors image Name of person on cover stands out Main cover line Rule Of Third s Rule Of Third s In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
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MastheadIs bold and at the top of the
page
Consistent Colours
Serif fonts
Dateline
Cover lines
Text anchors imageName of
person on cover
stands out
Main cover line
Rule Of Thirds
Rule Of Thirds
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
On my magazine I have put the masthead at the top of the page just like GQ have. The image I have used is a MCU, whereas on GQ the image is a close up. This means that I have moved away from the conventions of a men's lifestyle magazines as it is directed at a niche market, to fit the TA of the college magazine. Throughout my magazine cover I have used a consistent colour scheme, like the GQ cover. My colour scheme was white and pink to brighten up the page whereas the GQ cover has used very regal colours to make the magazine look classy and stand out to the audience. Although I kept my cover lines minimal unlike GQ, I did use a mix of serif and sans serif fonts. This keeps a theme to the magazine and allows it to follow codes and conventions. The cover lines were kept to the sides of the page just like GQs. I have included a flash in my cover unlike GQ as the as I thought it was effective and filled up an empty space. The main cover line does not anchor the image like in GQ but it does stand out which allows the reader to see whether or not they wish to read on. I have used rule of thirds throughout my cover which is an effective magazine technique. The name of the person on the cover is bold on both magazine covers, which allows the reader to decide whether or not they will be interested in the contents of the article.
The cover page I produced is very similar to the one I produced at the beginning of the course. However as I was making my cover, I decided that more cover lines were needed as the paged looked a little bland without them. The image was situated further right than I imagined however this fits with the rule of three and makes it easier to read the text as there is no overlap of colours.
Contents title
Date line
Consistent Colours
Selection of photos
Page references
Serif sub titles and numbers
Rule Of Thirds
Rule Of Thirds
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
I have also used rule of three on the contents page. I included the contents title and date in sans serif, to fit with the codes and conventions, and again I stuck to my colour theme off the cover of the magazine so it completed the theme, and stuck to the genre of the magazine. I chose to use three appropriate images and page references. As well as this I chose to put an image at the top of the page so that I could keep the ‘college’ in the colour white to again fit in with my theme to follow the codes and conventions of a student magazine. To make the page references and numbers stand out, I chose to put the writing in bold, and in the colour that again is used on the cover of the magazine.
The contents page I produced is very similar to the drawn draft I made at the beginning of the course. The only difference of this is the images were scattered around the page, however I felt that this did not fit in with the rule of three or fit in with the theme of the magazine. Therefore I changed it so that the images sat in the right grid of the page and the text was anchored over the images.
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