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

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Double page spread.

This is my double page spread and it contains an interview with Lucinda that has left a group band to be a solo artist. I did a survey on the questions that are in this article on what people said and used that to influence me to write this article. I have used a brick background to show that nothing can get in her way of succeeding in the music industry. The tagline next to the main image was just all in one vertical line however it looked to long so i cut it into two lines, so it doesn't seem there is much to read. To break the article down i placed stoppers throughout the content, this gives the reader a chance to read some of it then go do something else then come back to read some and know where they had stopped.

Process of double page spread

Using Photoshop has been the most difficult way to produce a magazine. However Photoshop has gave me a new set of skills that have developed from making my college magazine to my music magazine. From creating my front cover for college information, my Masthead was bright pink and my subject looked very out of focus and brighter than normal, whereas, my music magazine includes images that i have taken myself and edited to look naturalistic but glamorous as a star should look like. In this process i used the stamp tool to make my subject skin look smooth and gentle and less spotty. I also used the shape tool to create a square with round rims to place a second image inside it to show the use of images i have taken. On the other hand my main heading for this page is diagonal across the main image to show that this DPS belongs to this star who features the most in this music magazine.

Contents page

`Comparing the contents page to the front cover, the contents page holds a lot more information than the front cover. Whereas the front cover has more images. By researching other magazines, it has come to my attention that on a contents page, It should include more than just one image. In my research i found out that my type of audience prefer less writing and  more images explaining whats happened. That is why i am going to add more images to the bottom right hand side of this contents page, just to show its something more than writing to look at, more interesting. However by adding these images to this contents page; i will be using the software Photoshop. Photoshop allows me to edit the photographs to blend into  my background to make it look apart of the contents page. i used layers to achieve this. I took these image was a digital Cannon SLR camera. 

On the other hand on this page, i have used a subheading 'Star Gossip'  this is to give a twist to the stories my magazine is about to be read. However the placement of this subheading is central but there is a gap above it that should be filled. To make this look even more fun and informal, i am going to rotate the subheading diagonal to take it off point and all over the place to make it seem like that there inst a lot to read.

Front Cover

From finishing my front cover ,I have learnt new skills along the way using adobe Photoshop and analysising front covers from different brands. What I have learnt from Photoshop is that using layers is an important feature for this project, as I used dafont online to use on my front cover to make it look poppy! During making my front cover the main software I have used was Adobe Photoshop on the Mac suites. Photoshop was the most suitable software to create a well professional front cover that looked like it was from an actual brand. I did research on what a typical magazine would look like , and found out that typical conventions include mastheads , plugs and taglines. From this I evaluated and analysis other magazines to see if they had followed the conventions and to see what was positive and what was negative and how I could interpret that into my front cover. If I was to do this task again I would try different colour schemes and text to show a more bolder and older magazine towards an older target audience. Also with the posters added to the side I could try to make them look more professional posters instead of a loulsey bright colour backgrounds with contrast too much with my colour scheme. However if had to do this task again I would place things a different way to make it look like I haven't just left huge amount of gaps in my background.

Shooting for my magazine.

I did a video of my shoot to show how and why i made my subject model the way she does. I got her to model in a way that, it was naturalistic and action, so it made the picture look like it was taken live. I believe this was a good idea as, it gives the viewers something to look at, and make them think about it before they realize what the subject is doing. 

Process of Front Cover