2) How does your media product represent social groups?

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Final products

Front cover

Contents page

Double page spread

final improvements to DPS

I have improved this double page spread by adding some page furniture on to it, this adds more content on to the double page spread that people would be interested in, I have also added most of the different conventions that are needed for an effective double page spread.

DPS improvements from previous idea

From this you can see the improvements that I have made, from before this now looks more professional then how it looked before, I still need to improve it to make it look more like a professional double page spread.

dps mock up

After changing the background, i have finally chosen this one, to improve this I need to change the fonts and add more features to it to fit my magazine housestyle.

DPS mock up

This is one of the first mock up ideas that i had come up with, as you can see I have made massive improvements since.

dps development mock up

I have changed the the colours of the background and moved around the font, this is so that it added more effect and when you are using your visual syntax then you would usually start reading from the left to the right, although the page looks over crowded so i will need to move the things around again.

dps mock up

Here I have created another double page spread mock up idea, I have changed the font to make it look like the front cover, i have changed the font of the quote to link with the contents page. The background does not look that great against the font so I need to change the background again.

DPS mock up

This is a double page layout that I have come up with, there are some good things about it and some not so good things about it and things that need to be changed, the background and the colour of the masthead could be changed as it doesn't look effective.

mastheads

To improve my double page spread I have been trying out using different mastheads as the one I originally had (the one in blue at the bottom) didn't really link well with the page, even though my housestyle font is blue I feel that to make this page more effective I would have to use a dark shade of blue to make it look professional.

double page idea 2

From this idea you can see the development that I have made, I have added a background image and I have added a title and a pull quote in to draw the audience into the writing in the paragraphs. More text needs to be added to make the page more full and I feel that the writing needs to be changed that has been used on the masthead as it does not fit the layout of the page.

Double page spread layout 1

To start off my double page spread layout i put in the guidelines and added some pictures, although this might change through out the process as it does not look very professional at this stage, a title also needs to be added to it and some other conventions of a contents page.