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my double page spread uses the common conventions of a music magazine in that i used the same house style as my contents page keeping it the same product. i used a pull quote in the middle of my two columns of text to draw the readers attention. in the headline i chose to use two different colours, one as a positive colour and one as a negative, this gave the effect of layering and as if the text had been removed from a block of colour. also following the conventions i knew i needed to put page numbers onto each page, on the lighter side i knew i could just put the text at the bottom but on the picture side i new that it was darker so needed a light outline to be readable. i used a stanfirst as the introduction to the interview with her. i portrayed her interview with informality and made it seem like she could have been anyone, this helped to create the idea that she was a new upcoming artist in the world of indie music. i used quotes from people who go to festivals to make it more realistic and relatable to an audience.

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A large image of the artist the page is about

A pull quote  taken from the interview with the artist

different sized fonts

A stand first – introduction to the article/feature.
small body text used throughout the page.

Columns  for easy reading and more organised structure.

Short headline about what the page is about.

Usually follows same colour scheme.

Informal tone

Page furniture- used to inform or interact with the reader.
main text on one side of the double page spread

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on my contents page i saw that the most important thing was to show where something was in the magazine. i conformed to conventions like numbering the articles which i knew is the main reason for a contents page. i went with the common convention of including many different photos on my contents page. i chose to do this as it meant i could represent many different people in my product. i also followed the conventions of having columns  for my contents text, i chose to do the text this way because it would be easier to read and looks more organised than it would be if the type was just all over the page, the columns also allowed for column headings to distinguish between what the contents are about. in these titles i chose to keep a colour scheme with the titles being in light blue and text in dark blue this kept the house style which also recreated with the double page spread, this created a closer house style, while it is different to the front cover which challenges the conventions of a magazine in that the cover and inside pages do not look so similar but develops them in where both have similar colour schemes. i chose to use pentagons in my design because shapes are very frequently used in indie culture, this backs up the representation of indie fans in that it looks messy and disorganized but contradicts itself with the organisation of some parts. in my contents page i challenge the conventions of other contents pages in that normally contents pages just include pictures of the artists themselves which made me think about the fact that in the modern age there is a possibility of artists not wanting to show their face, working primarily through the interenet, or living in other countries. so i decided to use pictures of album covers to represent this portion of the creators, as well as those who dont like showing heir faces.

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teaser titles
short descriptions of the object
page numbers relating to small pictures from pages in the magazine
or
one big picture of the main artist
text following the form of the main artist
page numbers relating to the teaser titles and descriptions
main image of the biggest article in the magazine

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a main image focused on an artist normally in the center of the front cove.
an easy to remember masthead
a pug made of different shapes and colours to make something pop out to the audience
house style (a theme that runs through the magazine, colours, shapes)
a price to tell the audience the price of the magazine
barcode included on the front page for realism
a banner which shows the main focus of the magazine or the artist on the magazine
cover lines not covering the face of the artist
issue number/ date of the magazine to show the age of the magazine
lure text in a different colour or size font to draw interest from the reader.

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On the front cover of my magazine i chose to fit a lot of conventions as these conventions are what identified to an audience that the product is a music magazine which is aimed at an audience of a mixed gender group and 15 to 22 year olds who are interested in indie music. for the conventions it fits i knew it needed to have a short title, which i developed from the start by shortening a title that i had thought of to one word. i chose the word based on the trend of my target audience and indie artists choosing obscure seemingly random words and placing them in places where they could be interpreted differently, Droplet was chosen because it could suggest singularity or independence which is the embodiment of indie music, where artist come out into their own and produce their music independently.
i also understood that my product should also fit some of the basic conventions of a music magazine like having an artist on the front, the artists on the front of music magazines tend to lay important parts of that issue like a double page spread on them which i knew i would be doing with my model. with the photo to show off the artist i made sure to fit a convention of none of the cover lines covering over her face. this shows that she is the main focus of the magazine, another convention that draws focus is the different colour writing a fonts, this and font size are conventions of music magazines because the differences in these things keep the eyes interested and flowing, i chose to highlight the names in the cover lines and other information which could interest a potential buyer of my magazine. music magazines use this as a lure to make people wonder why this is such an crucial detail.
my product challenges conventions of music magazines because my model who is a member of my target audience isn’t a typical person who you would see as an indie artist, she is 16 and plays the guitar, clarinet and saxophone. some instruments that she plays aren’t typically seen as indie music instruments. i decided to have her as my model because the idea of indie music is that it could be anyone and the fact that its seemingly twisted into a tall, thin, brunette  girls who wears flowers  and boys who wear only hand me down clothes and have messy hair and sing about and play a limited margin of things, they all begin to merge into the same person. so i wanted to create a product with someone who you wouldn’t see and think automatically of being an indie artist, i wanted to try to present her as someone relatable to an audience. that inspires people and shows that anything could happen out of people.
my product developed the conventions of a music magazine as many magazine cover photos have plain backgrounds which are used to draw attention to the audience but i didn't feel like a straight plain background would fit my magazines house style and theme, i knew i wanted to have some sort of patterned background but i didnt want to have such a detailed bacground that it took away from the cover lines and photo and made it difficult on the eyes. i took the opportunity to use something in relation to my masthead and used a pattern of water droplets, i then felt it was still too clean for an indie magazine so i added a texture on top of the patern and lowered the opacity and change the colour and felt that it was alot better than a plain background for my theme