2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
I have used the typical convention of rules of
Front Cover thirds to position the copy and image on my
cover correctly.
I have used three different font The masthead is large to attract my
sizes to allow certain words, from target audience. I have also added
my cover lines, to stand out more a drop shadow to help it stand out
to the reader. I also have used a from the rest my magazine.
combination of bold and regular
font styles to achieve this. I have used a flasher to draw the
audiences attention to a
The selling line is positioned competition in the issue of my
underneath the masthead as I magazine. The colour of the flasher
chose to follow this typical is yellow, this breaks away from the
convention. The font is small in a colour scheme that I have
black font with a white stroke to followed, to help it stand out. I
allow it to stand out slightly from chose to incorporate a flasher on
the rest of the front cover. my front cover as it is a common
convention of music magazines.
There is a clear colour scheme
used on my front cover (red, white I placed the barcode into the
and black). I chose these colours bottom right corner after
as they’re appealing colours and researching magazine music
help the copy stand out from both covers and this is a typical place for
the background and the main a barcode to be positioned.
image.
I have also placed the date and
The main image is a medium- price of my magazine in the
close-up shot. From my research a For the main cover line I have used three font barcode as this is a common
lot of magazines use this type of sizes to maintain the professional look of my convention of not just music
shot. cover. From my research using various size magazines, but magazines in
fonts is a common convention. general.
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Contents Page
I have used the typical convention
of the rules of thirds to create a
professional layout for my contents I have used sub-headings to
page. organise my contents page. From
my research this is a common
The colour scheme and house style convention used by magazines
from my front cover has continued from all genres.
onto the contents page. All
successful magazines stick to this
I followed the convention of
media convention.
alternating the font sizes and style
of the copy. I used various font
My contents page also uses the sizes to allow certain things to
common convention of including stand out more and this is also why
the masthead and date at the top I chose to use lower case and
of the contents page. I followed this uppercase styles.
convention to maintain a
professional contents page.
At the bottom of my contents page
I have a subscription promotion. I
I have challenged the convention of chose to include this on my
having ‘contents’ at the top of my contents page as it is a popular
page and opted to have ‘This convention used by many
Week’ instead as it helps make my magazines.
magazine stand out from the crowd
and is more suitable for my target
audience.
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Double page spread
I have used to pull quotes from the
article to draw in the reader in and
prompt them to read on. This is
common feature in magazines of all
genres.
I also have used a drop capital at
the beginning of my article as this
convention helps maintain the
professionalism of my media
product.
As with my cover and contents, in
my double page spread I have
used rules of thirds to organise the
layout of my double page spread.
I followed the typical convention of
including the date, magazine name
and page number at the bottom
corner of the right hand page.
I chose to follow the convention of
using a tag at the top corner of my Most magazines have a page took With my double page spread I have
page. This is a common way up by a single photo, this is why I continued the house style and
magazines allow readers to identify have also done this. The image I colour scheme seen in my front
the artist/band that the article is have used relates to my article as it cover and contents page.
about. shows the artist in the studio.
