In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?(Contents Page)

As you can see the top of my contents page has followed the conventions of NME’s music magazine header, as I have maintained the bold colour black for the header of the contents page, I thought it was important to make the title ‘LOUD’ a larger font, which makes the title stand out. If I was to complete the task again, I would make LOUD a different colour, just so there is more of a colour scheme conveyed throughout.

Looking at part of NME’s contents page, noticeably the page number is quite large. I wanted to use this convention for my music magazine, I believe by making the page numbers stand out it is clear to the audience of where they can look. The numbers standing out is also emphasised through the use of the bold colour, against the white background.

To the right of my contents page, I specifically made a bold, black box. This includes other page numbers of the magazine, which is set in white - again making the numbers stand out. I decided to choose a black box because it adds a different colour to the contents page, I believe it is important to add a different colour instead of having a simple white background, the music contents needs to stand out. There is a brief description underneath each image, this will explain to the reader about the page, they can then decide whether they want to read it or not.

I decided to use a ‘subscribe’ box on my contents page, similar to NME. My reason for this is that it is extremely conventional of any magazine to give their audience a chance to subscribe to the magazine to save some money. My ‘subscribe’ box is in a bold red, this was chosen deliberately to add more colour, as it is quite plain. 

On NME’s contents page, there is only one image presented. I wanted to include more images on my contents page, so it is not just full of text. NME has a busy contents page full of a lot of text. I wanted to go against that convention, as I believe it is vital to make it clear to the audience of where they can go and look for what they want to read.