4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My magazine compared to a real front cover

My magazine compared to a real contents page

 My magazine compared to a real double page spread

I decided to change my double page spread to colour as there was no continuity with my products with the black and white page spread, I also changed the image to a more clear and bigger image.

Contents page house styles

Contents pages taken from different issues of Kerrang! magazine.

These contents pages all include a main dominant image of the cover star and the page number of where the article is located. They all contain a heading 'contents' and a heading 'Kerrang! this week' halfway down the page which are both in big bold letters in whiute and yellow to contrast against the black background/banner. They also include subheadings of the different sections of the magazine; feedback, news,features etc which are again in a bold font and in yellow to contrast against the black background/banner. A subscription offer is located in the right hand corner of the page which includes information about the subscription. An editors letter is located at the left hand side of every one of these contents pages in the form of a column and including a picture of the editor and a signature.Smaller images are shown on the page to make it more interesting and so the audience can visualize what is on each page. 

second draft

front cover

double page spread

contents page

Contents page and double page spread guidlines

Contents page
- multiple images
- If just one image per page contents page should be 2-3 pages
- Should reflect cover stories
- Largest image should be cover star
- Not all contents on contents page
-weekly magazine - 60 pages
- divide contents into sections
- page number at least 6
- elements to include
  - subscription offer
  - letter from the editor
- magazine branding, colour and logos


Double page spread
- photoshop A3 landscape dpi
- page numbers 40 upwards
- Dropped cap
- pullout quote
- columns
  - photoshop for graphics and photos
  - publisher for colums of text
  - no less than 6 words no more than 12 words