Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Final frontpage

For my final front page I chose a photograph of Molly with her hand above her head with her finger pointing keeping with the signature Disco move, this helps present what genre the magazine is straight away. I used Photoshop to edit the background to complete black which i think gives the effect that the model is at a disco or some sort of club which is what I wanted to show. I have used a bright pink for the title as bright colours represent disco and what it's about, it also makes the magazine more eye catching.

Final double page spread

This is my final double page spread, I have used an image of Molly and Artie on the right hand side of the page, I have edited the background out of the photo and made it completely black to make them the main attention of the photograph. Molly is wearing the same Roller skates which are on the contents page on my magazine to show that the magazine links and flows consistently. I have made boxes with quotes in such as 'We had such fun posing for this shoot!', I think this makes it look as if the two models are talking directly to the audience. I included some silly photos on the bottom left hand side of the page to look as if they had a professional photo-shoot done and to make them look fun and outgoing so my audience would feel comfortable and maybe aspire to be like them.I also included an interview with the two artists with casual and funny questions so the audience would get to know them better and feel included. I made sure I put the name of my magazine in the right corner of the magazine to constantly remind the reader what the magazine is called so it they would remember it better, i also included a faint 'M' on the left side of the page which I thought looked interesting and again reminded the reader of the magazine.

Final contents

This is my final contents, I have used a black background to keep with my consistent house style and also because I think it links with disco being in dark clubs with only the bright lights showing up. I have the title contents at the top written a little bit differently as to entice my audience and be a bit eye catching. I have then put a huge 'M' which stands for MISCO behind that to constantly remind the reader of the magazine they are reading, this could make the magazines name stick in their head therefor increasing the popularity of my magazine, I have also put the name of my magazine at the top of the page, for the same reasons. I have included a large picture of some legs with roller skates on which links to my genre as roller skates were a big fashion statement in disco, they are bright white which stands out on the black background. Above that picture I have put in a bright pink banner with some extra pictures on to make the contents page look more full and exciting, i kept it quite simple as I didn't want the page to look overcrowded and wrote 'Learn how to be disco!', I thought this would make the reader interested therefor making them read on and buy the magazine. At the right hand side of the page I have included all the features of my magazine, to make it look as real as possible I have included 99 pages which a normal magazine would probably have. I thought of things that related to Disco and would also entice the audience such as 'Exclusive interview with Kylie Minogue', I used the word 'exclusive' because I thought this would make the reader feel involved with the magazine and like they are finding out some secret information if they buy the magazine. Lastly I included an editors note in which I spoke informatively and spoke directly to the audience which I thought might make the feel comfortable and make their reading experience more enjoyable. 

Pop music magazine deconstruction

I deconstructed a pop music magazine cover because I found out that a lot of disco music today has evolved into pop music. I thought it would be important to deconstruct a pop music magazine because my magazine will probably include quite a lot of pop's conventions. 

Extra photoshoot!

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Front cover Photoshoot

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Photoshoot!

                      

Editing using Photoshop

Here is one of the photos that i took for my double page spread, I used black card as a background and stuck it to a wall and parts of the floor with Sellotape. I put the photo into Photoshop and tried various different ways to make the background completely black, firstly I used the clone tool to get rid of any background which wasn't black and to smooth over the creased bits of paper and the parts with Sellotape on, i then drew around the two models and feathered the edges of them to make them have a softer edge. I then selected 'Inverse' which selected the area around Molly and Artie, I clicked on 'adjustments' then 'curves' and adjusted this till the background was as dark as I wanted it to be.