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In order to improve on my current DPS, I have analysed a DPS from Q magazine, even though it is a music magazine rather than a music magazine, I am going to find it quite helpful as it contains an interview as and has elements that are within my current DPS.

I have picked up on the basic conventions such as the main image, the mise-en-scene of the image, the vocabulary, the colour scheme and font, the use of drop capital and the precision and position of all conventions.

My main image will also be displayed on the left hand side of the page, this is more effective than on the right as when the reader flips the page the initial thing they will see is the picture, and this can immediately engage them. I will not put any sort of colour scale on my image, I think the brightness of it already looks quite edgy.

The title is very small on this magazine, and because my main image does not take up the whole of an A4 side, it is acceptable for my to display a bigger title, with a wider range of fonts, this will take up a considerable amount more than the title for this article. I will use the same colours for the title, as I have used to introduce my star on my front page meaning my DPS has a link to the rest of the magazine.

I am using a drop capital at the start of the article rather than in the middle, but after seeing this DPS, I have been influenced to think about using a hashtag behind the article, I think this may look quite cool as my magazine is named #Insight, but also because my star is a blogger, meaning she uses the internet and hashtags frequently, giving her a sense of personality before the reader gets to the nitty gritty in the article itself.

I am going to use the same colour scheme in my DPS as I have used on the FP to express my artists image. Orange, black and white with a hint of blue and pink for the word  "pop".

I am very happy I have found this DPS and think it can go a long way to help me with its professional tones.