1. Evaluation; in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Throughout my front cover, contents pages and double page spread I have achieved continuity by using the same text font, for example, on my contents page and my double page spread I have used ‘Gill Sans Ultra Bold’. I chosen this font as it is bold, chunky and it stands out to the audience. On my contents page, I have used the same font (Gill Sans Ultra Bold) for each heading; the reasoning behind this is to make it easy for the audience to navigate around the page. This text is used for headings therefore whenever the audience will see this text used throughout my magazine; they will instantly know that is a heading. At the beginning of the text on my contents page, I have used a drop cap, the reason I have used a drop cap is to illustrate that is the beginning of the article or information. I have also used a drop cap on my double page spread; to again illustrate the beginning of the article. Throughout my front cover and my contents page I have kept the same colours: black, white and red, this is iconographic of my magazine and will make it easier for the audience to relate too. However on my double page spread I have not stuck to the colour scheme, I changed the colours to blue, white and black. This reasoning behind this is to match the text and the page to the models outfits. The page numbers on my contents page do not clash with the page numbers I have on my double page spread. On my front cover and my double page spread I have used the same artist, this is good as the main article (Scarlet - “We’re Big Enough”) is the main feature story in the magazine therefore I have dedicated the double page spread to them however I have not used the same artist on my contents page, I took this photograph of Bell X1 with my phone at one of their concerts. When I was creating my front cover, contents page and double page spread I used the inspirations of NME front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. I research these magazines on the internet to help me, as too where it’s best to place plugs, bar codes and more.