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

2. MAGAZINE COVERS (forms and conventions) ehow.com on magazine covers:

3. More from ehow.com:

5. Blogspot.com – magazine conventions:

7. Empire Magazine: Online archive: From 2006 – may 2010 Empire has an online archive of every magazine cover they’ve ever published from 1989 – now – here’s a sample >>>

10. My magazine cover: Extra content info Price and date small Main image taking up majority of space Barcode away in the corner Title big bold and at the top of the page Film title in it’s original font and big to capture attention Extra content info Blue colour used to keep the cooler tones to set the mood – quite melancholy Obviously staged image, not still from film, focus on character rather than plot

11. What’s not so conventional?: - Similar to the ‘total film’ magazines I didn’t use any other images than the main feature image, this is could possibly be seen as unconventional as most types of magazines use other images to fill up their cover and attract the attention of audiences who maybe would be interested in less significant article rather than the main feature.