Layout.

When creating my media product i again began by studying other indie pop magazines and what conventions i could carry through onto my own production from the examples i had studied. After researching into three other types of music magazines whilst focusing on the genre of music closest to mine ( indie pop ). Whilst studying Q magazine i was able to see ample amount of conventions i could use on my own media production having studied Q magazines layout. I feel my magazine cover use many strong conventions. These conventions being a clean cut and simple yet aesthetically pleasing. Three subheadings are placed along side the left hand side of the cover , whilst only one subheading is placed to the right , this keeps the cover looking deatailed and intriguing whilst at the same time avoids looking cluttered and too informational. A typical convention of a music magazine is to use interesting and exciting fonts on the subheading , i however challenged this convnetion and kept to using simple and mature styled fonts instead of less formal fonts. Another convention of music magazines , and in particular indie pop magazines is to use ample amounts of images and text on the cover to entice the audience. Again i chose to challenge this convention as i felt to much text and imagery would distract from the cover model , which in my magazine was the central theme as she was portraying an indie pop star. The layout in my contents page follows that of the conventions used in a music magazine i studied. The chose to use the conventions of again a simple and neat layout , with the contents information placed to the left side of the page. I chose to use this convention as i think it is a strong foundation to develop upon to create a contents page that fits your genre of theme in your magazine. A typical convention of other media products is to use rather large and bold font in the contents page , this convention was present in Base magazines contents page. I however chose to challenge this convention and use medium size fonts as i feel large font is too pretentious and overpowers the rest of the page content. The convnetions of layout that used on my double page spread both used and challenged conventions i had studied in other media products. When researching into Q magazine and Base magazines double page spread the conventions that were apparent were that images of models were the dominant feature on the page used to emphasise that the spread was centered around the model. This convention was usually portrayed by using a close up or medium close up of the model to able them to dominate the spread , i challenged this convention by using a long shot of my model and placing her inbetween the interview on the spread to indicate the two items equal level of importance on the double page.