Evaluation Question 1:

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

Use

• I used a cracked font as on Kerrang as I think this shows the genre of my magazine which is indie.  
• I used a banner at the top of the page to show the contents of the magazine for potential readers and helps them to see if a artist they are interested in is featured in this issue of my magazine, so that they will buy the magazine.
• I used a white border as on Kerrang to make the images stand out against my main image on the front cover.
• I used a image of artist on left hand side to help to show who the artist is, as this is the same as Kerrang and also fills up space, and shows that the magazine is full of different articles.

• I used the same font as the masthead used in Kerrang to keep to a similar house style.
• I used a image of the editor and a paragraph about the magazine to make the magazine seem more personal as used in Kerrang.
• I used a image of the double page spread to show the reader a main story they may be interested in reading and to make the magazine bursting with information.

• I used a main header to entice a reader into reading the whole article 
• I also used columns to make it easier to read
• The main image is on the left hand side so that poential readers will see this first and then may wish to read the article.

Develop  

• I changed the arrow to a block look, to look smarter as I wanted to use a more grunge style on the free posters part and the name of my artist who had free posters. I liked the way the arrow looks more interesting than just a box and made the text stand out.
• I used a + sign  rather than the word plus to make it more interesting rather than just the word as it is common to use abbreviations as it is a magazine aimed at teenagers and young people.
• I put my posters at a angle so that the magazine looked more interesting, rather than just using straight images, however I kept the white border to help them to stand out against the rest of the image.

• I wrote the page numbers in a larger font next to the article, as I thought it was hard to read the numbers the way that they are written in Kerrang.
• I decided to use different header for my articles than those used in Kerrang, as they use a sign to show if a article is on the cover I created a section just for articles that were on the front cover.
• I changed the subscribe section to stand out more than it does in Kerrang, as I feel it blends in with the rest of the contents page.

 

• Kerrang uses a introductory paragraph at the top of their page I decided to use a opening paragraph instead. I decided to do this as I felt that if a reader wanted to read the magazine, they would read it after seeing the quote from the article rather than a introductory paragraph.
• I used a quote in a much larger font than used in Kerrang so that it stood out more to entice readers.  

Challenge

• I used an entire story at the top of the magazine which was in yellow and white, as I felt that it looked more interesting as this story was a big story.
• I used a box around the artists name so that it would stand out more and that people would still be able to see the image behind.
• I decided to use a different pose for my artist as I felt that the artist looked abit silly on Kerrang.
• I used the artists name above the posters as I felt that it didnt stand out much on Kerrang.

•  I used the same colour font for the page numbers so that they didn't stand out too much and so that it kept to my three colours (White, Yellow and Black).
• On the top articles I used a line to separate the page numbers from the text, as this kept to style of the numbers on the rest of my page.

• I used a banner above the article so that the name of the article stood out more and that it still kept to my house style.
• I used different colours to show the interview questions and to make the article look more interesting. I also did this so that the reader could tell what the artist had said to the questions set by the interviewer.
• I didn't write the artists name below the quote as I felt that the fact that the image was below the artist showed it was a quote from her.