Evaluation - Question 1

Throughout all the pages of my product, I have tried to use continuity so that the product flows and looks more like a conventional magazine. I have done this using a set colour scheme, artist, and the same location in the imagery. I chose the colour scheme of red, white and black for my magazine as It looks quite simplistic and classy, it is not overrun with colour and in your face, the contrasting of the black and white makes the text easy to read and is conventional to most magazines. The only time I have veered from the colour scheme is on the plug to make it stand out and attract the attention of the reader; this too is conventional for magazines to do. I have used the same model on all pages to show continuity as she is the main article. I have also made the images on the front page and DPS black and white to link the two pages whilst using images from the same location on the DPS and Contents page to link the two. This shows that it is from the same magazine. On making final adjustments to my product, I will also change the font on the front page to match the DPS.  I think the layout of my magazine generally goes with the conventions of a music magazine, for instance my main image on my DPS is on the left page so it is the first thing the audience sees when they turn the page and it leads on nicely to the text as they immediately know what they are going to read. I also used little features like bars of colour along the bottom or top of the page to highlight specific information like the masthead or plug.