1. I will now be explaining and justifying the choices I have
made from the design and development of my cover,
contents and double page spread
Ability to refer to choices

2. Where did the ideas come from?
 Most of my ideas came from existing magazine covers, which I was
inspired by when I was doing my research and planning, I have took
a lot of inspiration from Q and vibe magazine, these two magazines
where two in particular because they used effective techniques to
ensure they immediately attract attention, they also follow the
standard conventions, following standard conventions correctly will
mean your magazine cover will be accurate, in terms of positioning
of titles, sub articles, bar code and images. While I was doing my
research it was important that I identified key areas of the magazine
that I found interesting and will help draw immediate attention.
Moreover rather than sticking to one genre I decided to mix
magazines and analyse each one, this will help widen my ideas
when it comes to producing my own, as well as this having the
feedback from fellow class mates and teacher allowed me make
changes where necessary, the feedback was important as it
allowed me to understand whether it suited my target audience. I
also created a poll to see which magazine stood out the most, from
then I was able to make key decisions regarding the conventions I
followed. Overall I have used some original ideas from existing
magazines with my ideas to create a unique magazine.

3. How did you incorporate or disregard
conventions?
 In terms of conventions, I believe I have incorporated conventions
very well within my magazine, I have used standard conventions
which match a Bhangra/Asian style magazine, within a Bhangra
magazine the standard conventions include having the title which
covers the top part of the page as well as having the sub articles
along the right and left side of the page and the artist is in the
centre, I have used a similar convention. Moreover the colour used
in these magazines are red, black and white which are the
predominant colours, so this is why I have used a similar
convention, it was important to have similar conventions, as it suits
the genre of my magazine. However I have disregarded
conventions within my magazine, this includes my main artist who is
dressed in a formal shirt and tie, in a normal Asian magazine the
artist, whether male or female are dressed in traditional Asian
clothing known as “Sherwanis” as well as that the barcode,
date/issue is often placed at the top of the page, however I have
located it to the bottom of the page as it looks more effective.

4. How successful was the final outcome?
 Overall, after creating my magazine cover, contents and double
spread I believe my outcome was successful, I think I have
developed a range of skills and creativity during the creation of my
magazine, having gone through the preliminary task my abilities
where rather poor in comparison to my music magazine, also I am
able to use the software’s required to produce a magazine
comfortably. Lastly from the feedback given by peers and teacher I
know what was my strong and weak point regarding the magazine.