In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and

conventions of realmedia products?

This is my front cover page, I have developed my front cover over time to create this final product. I have used the colour scheme of three different colours which are blue ( as my main colour) , red (as my secondary colour) and white as my third colour. I have used blue as my main colour because it links to the theme of my magazine (Blues) and my masthead name, this can symbolise that it is big and bold and jumps out at the customer more to pick up the magazine and read what’s in side. The colour red helps the colour blue stand out to which they contrast well with one another. The white also contrasts with both red and blue making all three colours jump out to the reader and helps the text stand out to be easier to read. The white also links to the keys on the piano and stand out as their own purpose. I have also used the colour white to stand out all the text and the mastheads so it can be separated from the dark back ground, the white also gives the text a glow. I used my variety of masthead names to come up with my final one ‘Chicago blues’. I wanted to stand out so I used blue and white in large don’t, also using photo shop tools I enhanced on to make the masthead effective and stand out. The image I have proceeded to use is in black and white to follow the specification and my intensions to make the magazine look expensive and classical. To fit my variety of age I used colour to attract a wider audience and using a brick wall helped me to show youth but also a classical blues image. The top header bar helps me to promote my magazine more with its golden effect and its formal font style.

This is my contents page. I have used the same colour scheme through-out my magazine to create its classical feature and its character. I have produced my contents page to a high standard using layout and colour. I have developed my contents page by starting with a background which I created separate. The contents page consists of different areas which is the main title of the page ‘Contents’, the photos, the left hand third and the bottom text review. In each section of the page a I have used colour to separate the text so the customer will know which is the title and the information. I have used different sized text and used a variety of fonts to stand out information that I want the reader to see. I have used small text in the images so the reader knows what is happening in the images and who it is. Using large font, I have made the page numbers stand out so that the reader can spot it straight away. I found that white font was best to use for the title of each text box, this is because it brought it to my attention more then the other colours. In the images I used layers to separate the models from their background , this was done by coping the image layer and then cutting around the models using the magic wand tool, I could then make the background darker and more blurred to make the models stand out. The opacity helped me to use a white layer behind the text but to be faited so the background can still be seen but the text can easily be read.

This is my double page spread . I have used Photoshop and InDesign for this page. On the page I have used a music list of songs from the models albums and tracks, in the chart I used my colour scheme to brake up the information so the customer can see what the different between the name of the song and the given information about it. Also in the text box I have added a list of the up coming songs and albums. I have added a masthead to the page that symbolises a music note table that musicians use. I have added a background of a acoustic guitar because it reveals that the magazine is a music magazine but also blues musicians use guitars when playing their music. I made the background black and white which I intended to do which helps the text and the images stand out. I used a slogan in the middle of the page that reveals to the reader what the page is and what genre it is. Around the slogan I have created a cloud of blue spray with a artistic pattern in it to make it stand out, on this I used blue which links to the genre as the colour the cloud. I have added the article for the page which I have included a question and answer and other information about the models/ musicians I have used in my magazine. I used page numbers to help the reader know what page they’re on, I used stylistic font to create its attraction. I used the red box to highlight and stand out the other information I wanted the reader to see to inform them of the advertisements inside. I used my main model on the mage with a guitar to help promote the mage more and let the reader know who the article is about.

• I used these magazines as my inspiration for my front cover as well as my own intentions. I used the magazine Guitarist for its musical instrument and how I could enhance on showing that my magazine is a music magazine, this lead me to adding the prop piano. In Rock, I used its white heading in the centre of the page to make it stand out. I also used the bar code in the same position. I used Vibe for its textured background, I used a brick wall to create the texture. I also used Vibe for its left and third text boxes and I used its colour red because I noticed that it stands out a lot and looks attractive on a dark background.

• For my contents page I used Pulse for its layout, I used the left side third of the page to add what's on each page but split it into sections e.g. features and every month. I used the top bar from the middle image because I found it helped create the classic look for the magazine, I added more detail to mine though. I used the a variety of images close to each other like the third image .

• For my double page spread I used these three magazines as my guidelines as well as my intentions. I used the title of the page in the first image as my inspiration for my slogan. I changed mine though to fit my specification and my intentions to make it link to blues. I used the full page background from the second image to create my guitar collage background. I used the question and answer from the third image and the highlighting of the question in a different colour. I also used the position of the model.