2. A) & B)
a) Which subgenre are you choosing? Why?
The sub-genre I will be using for my magazine will street wear / soft grunge because the target
audience is from 16-25 years old and therefore they’d go for more of a grunge look from my
perspective it looks as if it is more casual wear in this years fashion.
b) Are you intending on REINFORCING OR SUBVERTING conventions? How? Why?
I will be reinforcing the conventions as I am trying to get the best marks and best outcome possible
as I my aim is to try and make this more professional and more like a magazine you see on shelves.
How I will be doing this is by making sure I write the conventions that I want to do and focus on
them more to get the best possible outcome.
3. C)
C) What conventions are you applying to your magazine? How? Why? Make a list.
Cover Lines & Masthead- This is to make it more like a magazine that you see in a shop and in general
without having cover lines and masthead it won’t be reinforcing the fashion aspect of a magazine.
High Key Lighting- This is to make the model stand out and make her/him the focus on the magazine as
the magazine is focusing on fashion and how she/he is and what she/he is wearing to present the type of
clothes she/he is wearing as well as the way the models body language and the expression will be.
Colour Scheme- This is important by presenting the colours or whom this will be for as red/pink would be
more woman / female based and more blue would be for men / female.
These are some of the conventions I will be applying.
4. D) Explain why you are NOT applying certain conventions that you see in other similar media texts
Some of the conventions I will NOT be applying are:
Celebrities on the front cover because that is impossible for me to contact a ‘celebrity’ and get in
him/her in my media work.
As it is a fashion magazine I will be talking about fashion and tips for that not about ‘health and diet’
etc.
5. E)
E) How will your subgenre conventions appeal to or attract your target audience?
The subgenre conventions will appeal to the audience of the matter of fact as it is 16-25 year old
male and female. It looks more like casual clothes you’d wear on a normal day out as they are
‘sophisticated’ they’d want to stand out from the other classes therefore have a unique pattern and
design would make them more stand out as a class.
