My media product is a music magazine, for many weeks we studied many key aspects of conventional music magazines before started our product. By doing this I feel I have deep understanding of what typical music magazine consist of and now feel that my product complies yet challenges many forms and conventions of one.
From looking at front covers I learned many aspects such as colour schemes and structure and feel that my front cover compliments a typical music magazine front cover. In terms of a colour scheme we learned that a conventional magazine cover should consist of no more than three main colours in order to become attractive to the human eye and not to confuse our audience, I feel I have complied with this rule since my front cover has three main colours which are blue, red and grey. In many cases blue and red may clash but the shade of blue in which I used compliments the other colours. This colour scheme also fits in well with my main image of my model who was wearing a blue jacket with red logos. Many main images of in music magazines are taken in a studio or in front of a white background, however I felt in order to praise my genre of magazine which is urban music I decided to take my main image to coincide with that urban genre. The main image was taken at a train station and has a train in the background, this fits in with the Masterhead/Name of my magazine which is underground so I decided to use the double meaning of underground and tie it in with the London underground transport, also this setting further complimented my colour scheme since it is a similar shade of red to that of my front cover in order to become attractive to a the audiences eye. Although the setting of my main image may challenge the normal convention it was meaningful and also complimented my colour scheme making it conventional in the same way. In most music magazine the master head is typically at the top of the front cover either centrally or in the top left corner, however in my draft my master head is in the top right hand corner, this is something I have been sceptical about since it is unusual in a music magazine but may also become visually confusing or unappealing to the audiences eye since, we in English and many other languages we read from left to right and usually take in information from left to right so the fact that is in the right hand corner may degrade my front cover visually, this is something I may consider changing for my final product. In the majority of music magazines the main image is of an artist that will feature in the magazine, this is something I took into consideration and decided to conform to. There are also many smaller aspects which I included in my front cover such as a barcode, slogan, and a main sell line which refers to my main image. However in my final product I will be including other aspects such as a price and over see’s price.
Other key aspects that I included were page number references in my contents page but without ‘Pg’ or ‘Page’ since I expect my audience to already know that I am referring to the page number this is a common feature in many contents pages, however these page numbers are realistic, clear and stand out from the background. I also have a realistic number of articles for a traditional music magazine, enough to attract my audience and make them feel as if they are getting their money’s worth. Also i have had a consistency in my text with the contents sub headings in the same font and size with Contents master head matching my ‘underground’ logo font. I have divided my contents into sections with My fashion articles separate from my music features. As well as my background image complimenting my magazine name like on my front cover I have included secondary images which relate to my articles, this will give my audience a further insight to my articles. Another conventional aspect I have included is having subscription details visible on my contents page.
Here is the my 'Key Concepts & Magazines' prezi which I used in the video
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