Evaluation question 1

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

Cover

Here are some existing Electronic dance Music Magazine Covers with their conventions labeled:

 This is my cover:

Masthead:

My masthead follows music magazine conventions taking up about 20% of the cover.it is also stylized with a Decorative Block font which is very contemporary like most Electronic music magazines ,a contemporary font appeals to the audiences as they seen themselves and their music as contemporary.

Skyline:

The skyline challenges conventions as it stands out more than other skylines from other magazines,i like this as it really stands out to someone purchasing the magazine and can clearly see the what the magazine is about and its content,i think the skyline is as important as the masthead as this is the first thing anyone sees on the shelf if it is surrounded by other magazines.

Main Image:

This is the original picture i used for the main image after editing the levels and adding filters and grain to give an old deteriorating picture feel and give some texture.Blue and purple overlays were also added to give a cold shadowy feel.

over the image i drew scribbles around the eyes to conceal his identity to a certain extent  and give the cover image some edge over other covers.

Price and barcode:

Although it is a convention to have the price on the magazine's cover, I decided to not use it, this is because I want to put it on the back instead. I didn't want the price of the magazine on the front as i feel as it distracts my readers from the magazine.My readers are of ABC1 social class and money isn't a problem when coming to buy a magazine because they have disposal income.When it came to the bar code i definitely had to follow conventions becuse it makes it easy for people to scan in the item when paying.

Issue Number and Date:

Its conventional to have the Issue number and Date so i deiced to have them on my front cover,as someone that buys magazines i want to know what issue im buying and when it came out ,say if i'm a collector i want to know if its up to date and thats its not wasting my time.

Colour schemes:

I went for a fairly basic colour scheme with a colour hierarchy as most magazines today have some kind of colour hierarchy to help the person buying the magazine can differentiate the most important things first and it helps thing you want to stand out stand out more.
an off white is used as the main/basic colour 
the second color is a light Plum as it is used for titles for the  more important content on the page,the plum is made up of red and blue which have an occurring role in the magazine so not over saturate the use of the plum

Font:

Types of font that i can use for my masthead and other text -

This is the font i ended up using for my masthead called inversion which i like and feel as if it could be on a music magazine with its contemporary edge which reflects the music within my magazine.the font is a type of block serif and decorative hybrid.

Feature story's:

All my feature story's are short and informative following conventions.Key words in the feature story's are highlighted by the plum text which challenges conventions all the other magazines don't have a feature story highlighting scheme

Plug:

My plug followed conventions of being loud and standing off the page i used a large plum cirlce with off white writing.the placement was perfect on the page after all the feature storys had been place on there was a large gap in the bottom corner which was the perfect place as i did not have to move anything ,normally the plug is top left but that would of overlapped onto my main image.Located directly opposite the main story so i feel like it has alot of importance.I chose free club tickets as it would i feel like my audience would want them the most and it was in the top three things what people would want to win in my survey.

DPS

this is my cover:

a closer look

My DPS follows most of the main conventions of a DPS as you can compare mine to three of mixmags and mine has most of the conventions.Some conventions i don't have are a secondary image this was done on purpose as i wanted my main picture to take up a whole page with nothing in its way and i feel the way i have stylized the overlap onto the next page takes up more room while it would look cluttered with another picture.One other thing is that the artists name isn't large or doesn't really stand off the page its just in bold as i think the title of the article uses that space up.

Contents page

a closer look 

My contents page follows every convention of a contents page when compared against mixmags mine actually has more such as the editors notes and extra images i believe this is a solid informative contents page.