Finished DPS

(Bottom version is without the superficial page splitter line in the center)

Evaluation Question 1

http://goanimate.com/videos/04uwPZbXtrAU?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=usercontent

(The GoAnimate presentation answers the question for the Front Cover)

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

Shown together, it is easy to see that all of these pages of my magazine share a consistent house style and colour base (namely the computer grid and space/aerial theme. While the contents page differs slightly, portraying a sunset behind the palm trees, a planet or moon is still visible behind them. Both of the other pages feature a star field and all three feature a grid/mesh like those of early vector graphics.

My three colour scheme is Black, Red, and Purple still between all three of these except for the contents page which takes on a more tropical sunset feel with it's use of orange, using four main colours in total. The text and page numbers follow a consistent font, size, colour and black skewed background

The contents page uses the same masthead font as the front cover.

The artist 'Lazerhawk' is mentioned throughout my product and is the focus of the Double Page Spread. This also provides continuity to the magazine.

Finally, my layout matches the conventions of other magazines through the contents page and double page spread which are used in almost all magazines of the same type. The contents page features images and mentions the articles relating to them with subheadings as well as having a main contents of each artist mentioned. However, the overall layout of the contents page is unusual and the artists are arranged alphabetically rather than by page number. This is not a common convention for contents pages and my magazine has challenged it by deviating from it.

 My double page spread follows most conventions surrounding the standard DPS. It has images of the artist which it is about on one page and all of the text on the other. A clear example of this convention can be seen here: http://heathenmedia.co.uk/cward/files/2013/11/dps3.jpg

Front Cover w/ Date Fix

Double Page Spread WIP 1