Question 1 notes - Challenging Conventions

Front Cover

• The use of centralised text. This looks more appealing to a younger audience.
• The main image doesn't include an instrument because he is famous and everyone will know him and associate him with pop music without the inclusion of a guitar
• I have only used a banner for a header and not a footer. The header had enough room for the stories I wanted featured on the front.
• I have put my barcode on the front cover in the lower left corner. On the magazines I have looked at, they either don't have a barcode on the front or have it on the left on the cover. Mine is on the lower right corner because it is not an attraction to the magazine like the rest of the cover features. I wanted it on the front so the price can be seen without the trouble of looking for it because I have the price and issue date next to the barcode.
• I used inverted colours on one of the cover line bubbles to make it stand out.

Contents Page

• I have used text on an angle to make it stand out and look more appealing to a younger audience. (The angles text look more immature)
• I have used the logo on the top of the contents page as well.
• I have used uppercase letters to make certain buzz words to stand out and look more appealing to a younger audience.
• My image interacts with the text e.g. Leon is 'leaning' of the contents box.
• I have my small print for the magazine on the contents page rather than using a separate page for all of the small print. I used it to fill the space and give a little information about the magazine without having to go find a page to get the information.
• This is the same reason the social media names are on the contents page.

Double Page Spread

• I have three columns for the text on the page. A lot of magazines only have two.
• Each question in the Q&A has a separate colour for a different category per question. I separated it into colour coded categories to make it looks more colour and appealing and so younger viewers can just skip to a question they find more readable and interesting.
• The image I used took up a whole page or there about to make the article look more a appealing. Also younger audiences look at the images more than reading so the image takes a whole page and there is slightly less writing to read.
• I made a logo for the Q&A page which most magazines don't have but I thought it would look more appealing to younger audiences if each page had a logo to represent the kind of article that was on it.
• There is a quote in the corner that I found in only one magazine but I liked it and it made the page look more personalised from the artists point of view.