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In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products? (I.e. of Music Magazines)
In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products? (I.e. of Music Magazines)
Graphology/page layouts
The graphology of my front cover is very simple; I use one font in Xpress
XF. I felt there wasnt any need in using a different font as because of the
variation in using capital letters and applying the bold text style to the
writing it, they appear to be quite different on the page so there was some
variety in how the text appeared on the page. I was still able to make
different parts of the page stand out more than others because of this as
well as manipulating text size, which is needed. This can be seen as
unconventional, as typically a front cover would include different fonts.
But I felt there was no need. For my cover line, DJ Greeno Exclusive, this
isnt your typical cover line as it makes the reader believe that the
magazines all about him. Whereas it is not, it features a variety of
elements within the Electronic Dance Music genre. I decided to have this
as the cover line as it is the main story within the magazine and what the
double page spread is based on. Therefore, the reader needed to be
aware of this and that this should hopefully be eye catching for them as
well as they are intrigued to see what he has to say in his interview.
However, on the other hand, Mixmag and EDM weekly do have this type of
cover line on their magazines also, which is another reason why I
incorporated into mine also. It just isnt typical to other genres of music.
For the layout of the front cover, it was inspired by Mixmag. I felt the
design looked very professional and neat and that was the intention of my
magazine also. I wanted it to be professional while also being exciting for
the reader. So I incorporated the style of having the boxes to have text in
Genre and how the magazine cover, contents and spread suggest
it
I feel my magazine design represents the Electronic Dance music genre
very well. The magazine represents the genre well as the designs are
bright and exciting which is what the genre is like. As this corresponds to
bright colourful lighting within clubs. I have used colour effects on all of
my pictures also to give them these exciting colours to them to represent
the genre also. The colour scheme used of blue, white, yellow, purple and
black for the majority of the magazine I feel looks exciting add
professional in the way I have incorporated these colours. I decided to add
the colour effect of pink on the contents page just to add to the eye
catching nature of the page. But mainly through the types of clothing and
props used in the magazine indicate that it is based on the Electronic
Dance Music genre. As the pictures include beats, shades, and frames of
dance moves portraying it to be in this genre.