6. HOW MY MUSIC MAGAZINE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS FRONT COVER MY MUSIC MAGAZINE TYPICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE (SUGAR ) Straplines Big catchy title, stands out. Medium close-up, direct address. Both female pop group icons. Sub titles, coloured fonts. Barcode and price of magazine. Busy layout, attention grabbing colour schemes. Female dominated, developing music magazines that do not have pop magazines on the market

7. CONTENTS PAGE MY MUSIC MAGAZINE TYPICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE (NME) Subtitles and text grabbing the readers attention Variety of images and bright colours that stand out. Competitions and offers to attract more readers Editors letter, appeals more to the female population, Informal text drawing specific attention to certain articles. Fun colourful shapes to make it more appealing to younger readers. Although my music magazine is based on a pop genre and the other typical music magazine (NME) is genre of rock they do have similar conventions. There are no other pop music magazines to compare for my magazine, which makes it very different and unique. Main image and focus point that attracts the readers attention. Numbers to make it easier to follow page numbers and to attract main articles

8. MY MUSIC MAGAZINE TYPICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE FEATURE ARTICLE Pop group name, bold, stands out from the rest, different font, eye catchy. One main exclusive enlarged image- draws attention. Develops the convention a typical music magazine as it has more text than images. This may be because the font is bigger making it easier for the younger age group to read it is also interesting, more to read about, fun and different to a normal magazine making it better for younger ages as well. Colour themed, different use of fonts and colours. Coloured background

11. MUSIC STARS/ CELEBRITIES My front cover of my music magazine features a enlarged medium close-up image of a female four girl pop group that I made up named ‘The Revivals’. Details that specifically construct the idea of a pop group representation: Costume The four girls have their own unique outfit that fits their personality. Hayley- Wearing black and white dress accompanied by high black heels. The cute one out of the group she will be looked at as the fashion icon. Jess- Wearing black leather skirt and blouse. Patterned tights and black high shoes will also be worn. Accessories will be earings and a bracelet. Jess is the loud character and also the lead singer. Danielle- Wearing short playsuit with short ankle socks and heels. The funny one who is always laughing. Vicc- She will be wearing white/black floaty dress with knee high length socks and high heels. The pretty one.

14. Weekly competitions to get the readers involved and give them chance to take part is special events or win prizes. Represent young females as they would be interested in this. I believe that in my magazine I have represented young females as it is aimed at things they like. E.g. fashion, boys, celebrities and music. The bright colours and images represent young females as it is very female dominated using girlie colours e.g. pink and images of girls. Fancy fonts and enlarged text making it clearer and easier to read. Love heart shapes and pretty colours are used to appeal to the young female audience.

20. Q5. How did you attract/ address your audience? I chose the title LOUD for my magazine because it represent some connotations from the word music. It stands out, and is short and sweet memorable title. The font helps to create it to look 3 dimensional like its popping out. Its big, bright and colourful making it appeal to young audience which shows it will be successful. The key image on the front cover is enlarged and fits most of the front cover. The pose features four girls all smiling close together showing a close relationship and friendly atmosphere making the photograph look professional. It is a medium close-up and uses direct address. Their hair, make-up, and outfits all look professional creating a band image that attracts the audience. He use of storylines have shapes to stand out more for example, hearts and circles. Celebrity gossip is used to interest the target audience. Feature articles, exclusive pictures and popular artists are featured on the front page to encourage the readers to buy and want to read inside. Starring the girl band ‘The Revivals’ using outlines, text boxes, fonts, and colour themes to appeal to the female audience.

21. The editors letter on the contents page uses informal language and a tone to appeal to a younger audience. It makes the letter interesting to read using not too much writing to bore the reader. Enlarged subtitle, with fancy font and two bright colours, draws attention to the text and attracts the audience. Bring colours, stands out and catches the audiences eye. Feature articles that will interest the reader. Images used to make the page look more eye catchy and interesting. Large image to brighten the page up and support main article.

22. Headline in a funky font emphasising on the pop genre with a fuchsia pink colour appealing to a female audience. Brightened image of the girl pop group. Using direct address the four girls pose in the image that has been edited and cropped. The background has been erased for it to look professional. The image has been lightened to stand out more. The article itself has a total of ten questions. Informal language is used to make the article fun to read for the specific target audience. Coloured theme is used of pink, black and grey, this is to create is simple but stylish. The page is kept to a simple layout using text that is easy to read without using to much and just one enlarged image that relates to the article making it attract the target audience.

26. Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? As you can see, there is a massive difference from when I first began learning to use the software and attempting to create a front cover of a school magazine to creating my front cover for my music magazine. Although, I made my preliminary task very quickly in a short period of time I did not know how to use the tools in Photoshop and Indesign to create a better one. Overall, you can see I have learnt a lot through out the progression of my project, I have learnt many new skills and developed my knowledge in many ways. Fonts and text boxes have been developed to look more professional Photography and use of lighting has changed completely Colour themes and fonts have made big progression as I developed skills to produce a better quality The logo in this front cover is very dull, boring Front cover is boring, not interesting and plain colours Looks more professional, more fun and interesting to read for my target audience.