My magazine takes typical magazine conventions like catchy headlines, articles, and gossip, and fulfills expectations of layout and content from a professional publication. Photos were improved using Photoshop to better represent the music industry. A patriotic design in red, white, and blue uses teaser lines and banners to draw in readers, presenting a magazine that could stand alongside leading publications.

1. How does your magazine use, develop and
challenge forms of conventions?
My magazine ‘Re-wired’ uses,
develops and challenges forms of
conventions by taking the typical
magazine and fulfilling the same
standard produced by the
professional magazine company.
From my studies I discovered
there was a range of content that
occurred across competing
magazines; this is including
catchy cover lines, top new
stories, in-depth articles and all
the gossip throughout the music
world, which I easily fitted into my My magazine
magazine. The only difference is contains similar
mine is mainly fictional, I used as layouts to a leading
little real life stories as possible. magazine. The
contents is what is
expected of a
leading magazine.

2. The magazine includes a selection of
images, this has developed from taking
poor pictures with an irrelevant
background to pictures where the scene is
set, the costumes fit the genre of the
magazine. When needed I was able to put
techniques and abilities of using
Photoshop to alter things. I tried to
represent this on the double page, using
the snow to my benefits getting some good
shots to show the extravagant shots the
professional photographers would get for Q
and NME. This was also show where as I This image shows no
wanted the effect of a concert so I had to relevance to the
edit it in to the best of my abilities; this was music industry.
quite difficult as I was a complete novice to
Photoshop before I started media.
This is the out
come of my
attempt at
photo-shop.

3. My magazine would be able to go up
along side a leading magazine like Q as
it has the same sort of practicality, I have
stuck to a very strong house style of red,
blue and white, give it a very patriotic
feel, this sets a fairly indie feel to it giving
the impression of ‘best of British’ this
would also then attract the American
audience as they generally enjoy
stereotypical jolly old England. I have
also used teaser cover lines to introduce
bands that will be influencing the weekly
read. Banner’s are used as they are eye
catching and they lay right on the route of
the eye so I have including more
interesting information to grab the reader.
A patriotic feel could give the
impression it is much better than
another magazine, it shows real
strength.