Evaluation: Question 1

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

Both my cover and contents page change the normal forms and conventions of a magazine. My contents page because it is unlike many contents pages. The reason I decided to make the contents page vastly unconventional was because it would make the page unique and unlike the majority of most contents pages that you see; it also gives the magazine a 'personality' of its own. 

My front cover is also unconventional as it's supposed to be a special edition version, and therefore I was going to make it simplistic, but I decided against that as it looked too plain. In the end I decided to make the main image of the cover placed more to the right instead of in the centre like on most magazines as I thought this made the cover look more interesting. I also made it so the main cover line stands out and was bigger than the masthead; this was so people could instantly see that that is the main article of the magazine, as well as showing that it's a special edition magazine. To counteract the fact that the main cover line is bigger than the masthead, I made it so that it was eye-catching and could still be easily recognised as the masthead by making it a colour that would stand out and putting it where a masthead is usually placed. All the conventions and forms of my magazine are a lot like those of Kerrang! and Rock Sound, as those were the two magazines I used as a guideline for making and designing my own.