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

1. Masthead
On my front cover I used a simple
The masthead from the B&S magazine is positioned in the top left
corner of the magazine and is rotated so it goes down the page. sans serif font however, uses a more
In my magazine I decided to use aspects of this but tried to break stylised font for more important
away from this typical convention by keeping the text positioned words or phrases. This is quite a
up right but in the top right corner of my page using aspects of the common convention and works well
younger magazine and the older magazine below. But still trying to with the rest of the front cover and
keep it young so it appeals to my target audience helps it to flow as well as making it
more mainstream. However, I used a
slightly older looking font which
probably wouldn’t be associated with
a young audience however does fit
Stylised Sans Serif Font with the genre. I also used language
such as, questioning and pull quotes
from current artists which will draw
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my audience in.
Genre Photography/ Models
Price Running head It is noticeable in many magazines such as, ‘Blues
I feel, of all magazine convention, I have challenged genre
the most looking at both older magazines from B&S a and Soul’ that they use a different artist depending
younger magazines for a younger audience. The older on which magazine you buy and which audience it is
Splash aimed at. The headline is typically in the top left
magazines represent music as an art that needs to be
Headline listened to carefully whereas, the magazines of a younger corner with the model in a few of the magazine
audience represent it completely the opposite. I wanted leaning/stilting towards the masthead. In my final
to convey aspects of both these without making it sound piece I deliberately challenged these conventions by
Colour Scheme like too much as an art as I felt this wouldn’t interest a placing the masthead on the opposite side on the
B&S/ Blues and Soul particularly stick with a colour scheme of young audience of 16-19 year-olds. But by highlighting a right, running across the top. However, I kept the
just red and white, these are quite striking colours particularly young audience on my front over by using current artists idea of the model being positioned so some of the
with the model in quite vibrant clothing which define ‘B&S’ as a and concerts it enabled me too slightly move away from lettering of the masthead overlaps/goes over the
relaxed maybe even chilled magazine type. I wanted to this aspect and on my double page spread move towards models head slightly. I also used a female model on
challenge this and chose a light blue tone, red and black for conveying music as maybe an art, by talking about a my front cover; this is due to targeting a female
contrast and also a calmer tone whilst still being striking. I kept musician who has succeeded, talking about ambition audience even though it’s not very common to find
with this colour scheme throughout my magazine. However, aiming for a young musical audience a female posing on a Blues magazine. However, I
deliberately used more red and black on my double page spread tried to balance this out by using and challenging
to convey a slightly different tone, being an article on conventions such as, keeping the low lights and
succeeding I wanted it to be quite daring without making it too smoky background and relaxed clothing associated
contrasting with the rest of the magazine. But, by only using the with Blues.
red for pull out quotes and headlines and sub-headlines it didn’t
pull away from the relaxed tone of the magazine.
Double Page spread
Through many magazines I looked at, they were either very simple layouts or very crowded, I wanted to use
aspects of both without being too busy or too simplistic. I decided to keep the background to simply white and
used images to break up text if it got too crowded. I also used pull quotes and maintained that aspect in my
own work.