With my college magazine I challenged the conventions of a magazine as you can clearly see from my layout. My text isn't on the left hand side of the magazine and my mast head isn't bigger than the main cover line. I placed a black rectangle box to the right of the page to cover a distraction in the photograph but looking back, it simply looks as a small image. From this preliminary task, I have learnt that it is best to research thoroughly before drafting out a product.
By looking at existing products I was able to relate and plan from inspiration of them by looking at magazines of the same music genre. The research for these products, I believe, is the most important aspect to this task as it gives a guide line of what you must include and collect inspiration from them. The elements you must include are the conventions such as mast head, bar code, main cover line, image, date, price and issue number. From here its the other context that makes a magazine, like a website, slogan, plug splash and logos to attract the targeted audience. My preliminary task does not include a price, issue number, it only contains the date. This is a very bad mistake I made and clearly did not plan out as this is one of the main conventions of a magazine!
I didn't experiment much with my college magazine with different use of texts and Photoshop tools as you can obviously see as it isn't very creative.
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