In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real life media products?

My magazine is different to this existing text by NME because of the layout and text. I am happy with the image, as I feel that it looks as professional as an image from a NME magazine. Some points that I would suggest are not so good are the text. I have added a little bit of text on the page and it looks quite bare and clear. The NME text all works well together and stands out without using bold bright colours. The masthead is very large and stands out which attracts the reader a lot more than what my personal magazine does. I know that I am not a professional and I would find it very challenging to even get my magazine as good as this one but it shows the difference from someone who is creative and someone who may not be as much.

The similar things about this magazine are the font; the two magazines don’t have the same but they both keep to the same font in the magazine. They both also have a different font for the masthead which stands out further. The image is different; a close up attracts the reader to the face of the artists more than what mine does. The audience are more likely to look around the background in my image because there is a lot of empty space. The two magazines both have the text on the left and right to keep the image the centre of attention. The NME magazine has very neat columns of text which makes the magazine look tidier and professional, whereas my magazine doesn’t have text in a neat column. This makes the magazine look untidy.  I tried to add my own element by adding two different colours to the masthead. I haven’t seen any magazine that has this yet and I think I can understand why. Has much as I think it looks ‘ok’ it doesn’t do much. The masthead is not screaming out at you, which is what I would like. I would want somebody to look at the magazine and remember the magazine. From the survey I decided to add some of the artists that were preferred by my target audience.

These are DPS for NME and my target audience. Again they have used large writing to give the reader an insight to what this magazine will be about. The colours for NME DPS were a mixture of 3 colours; black, white and red. I am happy with my DPS since I feel that it is nice a simple; the colour makes it stand out and become quite summery. I think an improvement would be making the DPS look more musical. The layout of the DPS is different because mine is in a block; it is all in one neat paragraph. The NME magazine has used a few of columns. The text is also a lot smaller than mine, so you can fit a lot more information in it. The main part in this DPS is the image which is what the reader is instantly drawn into. The text in these two different texts are very different, the NME DPS has different types of text which makes the page look a lot more exciting. Whereas my music magazine has the same font because I knew that it would look better with different fonts but I just didn’t know how to work them together. I thought that instead of ruining it with a couple of different fonts.

These are the contents of NME and my contents page. The NME magazine is full of lots of information about what is in the magazine. As you can see this magazine is a lot bigger that what mine is. This is a negative on my side because people buy a magazine which has a lot of information in it, not one that has a few ages. There are a few images of the NME contents page which is about different things. Most things which attract the reader are the pictures; the audience like to visually see what they are reading about. My contents page has one image and that is the same person that is on every page, even though it is different images. The NME has an index on the side of all of the bands which are in the magazine. This is good compared to mine because they can quickly see whether there favourite band has been added to this magazine and find the page. Also on the contents page they have a small story. This is different to mine because I don’t reveal what the stories are about. This is good because it gives a hint of mystery about what may be in this magazine. Some people like surprises some don’t; I need to take that into consideration. NME has used a few colours; red, white, black and yellow. These colours are use so that the reader is drawn into the important parts of the magazine. My contents page has two different shades of brown. This is good to keep it simple and to keep it matching it with the image, but sometimes making something stand out I important and this does not happen.