Evaluation Question 1: How does your product develop, Use and challenging of conventions?

My music magazine titled ‘Top’ uses a lot of conventions of magazines of that genre, it is a Pop music magazine designed for the target audience of young female teenagers and preteens (from about ten to fourteen). When I started I looked at other magazine of the same genre and audience, such as ‘We love Pop’ and ‘Top of the Pops’; looking particularly at their use of colours, house style and image framing. I found a very nice example in an issue of ‘We love Pop’. Looking at their house style of bold and blocky red and yellow, which I wanted to try and replicate in my first mock ups. Then once I had the basic layout and colours decided I later began to change these colours in my next drafts into the bold pink and purples seen in the finished product, this new pink colour matched my models costume far better and would attract the target audience I created a lot better due to its connotations.

With my contents page I wanted to make something quite childish and playful, using the zigzag effect I created around my images did this perfectly. It got rid of the very plain and straight lines that would be used by adult magazines like Q, and instead made it very sharp and quirky. For colours I kept with the colour I had used on my Front Cover, to keep consistency throughout the magazine. Also when creating my contents I had to play attention to the page numbers, so make sure they did not clash and that page 23 for my double page spread was consistent throughout.

My product has developed a lot since its original draft, and between my first and second draft of my Front Cover I took into account a lot of my feedback from peers. The piece has been made a lot brighter and vibrant from using image manipulation. The layout looks a lot more professional, and the piece as a whole looks more polished and neater. Using my double page spread as an example, the introduction of a bi-line on the piece make the piece look far more conventional  and neat than when it did not have one. This and the lines added in behind make the page look more interesting and less plain. While still not going over the top and overcrowding the page.