Final Products.

 Using my drafts I was able to create my final products. Including a magazine front cover, contents page and a double page spread.

Contents page revised.

After peer review on my drafts I have decided to change my Contents draft and details of it can be found in this prezi presentation.

Contents page revised

Drafts

I have been able to use the conventions that I picked out on the Magazine products to create drafts from which I will be able to model my final products. I indented to get feed back on my drafts to see what people make of them and to see if they think that they fit the genre of Metal-core.

My draft  for the magazine front cover which includes a large mast head with the key image having depth to it. The sub-header which runs across the centre of the page is also present along with the cover lines below it. 

Using the conventions from the double pages spreads I looked at I created this draft. The key image takes up around 40% of the spread much like the examples I saw. It also contains text boxes that over lap along with multiple smaller images. There is also a panel which I will use for in-depth information.  

I used some of the conventions to create this draft. However I am not too keen with the lay out of this draft and depending on the feed back that I get on this draft it may be subject to change. 

Progress.

I have finished my research and collected and hi-lighted a number of conventions from the magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. I intend to use these conventions to construct guild lines for be to create my draft work, from which I will base my final product off of. Once I have finished the drafts I will begin to mock them up in rough on In-design. I can then use this rough mock up to position the elements of my products.

Double page spread research.

Once I had completed my contents page research I began to research into the one piece of the product that I had not researched, that was the double page spread that would contain my main article. I looked out for the conventions featured with in double page spreads.

I found that all of the double page spreads I looked at had around 40% of the double page spread covered by a main image. The remainder of spread is used for the text which is divided into columns  The body of next is not limited to one box but can have boxes contain text around it. These extra boxes are used to display more in-depth information that may not be directly linked to the main article.  

Contents page research.

To follow up from my research into the conventions of magazine front covers, I decided to research the conventions of magazine contents pages. I paid attention and noted some of the different lay outs and why there were effective yet different.

The text with in the contents page used different colours and effects (e.g. bold) to separate out all the different elements to the contents page. The page numbering was a different colour to the article head line. The head line its self is in bold compared to the small sentence of descriptive text.    

Music magazine front cover research.

I decided to follow up my initial research of magazine front covers by looking further into them. This time I orientated my research around music magazine front covers, looking at genres of music that reflected that of my chosen genre of Metal-core.

From this research I have found out that magazines around the Metal-core genre conform to the standard conventions of lay out of the front cover. This includes the position of the mast head, as well as use of cover lines and subheading. The key image is also used similar. However these magazines also use a similar style of font. They seem to use fonts that look worn and used as well as rugged, this is to reflect the genre of Metal-core as it is rugged and loud.