How student magazine challenges conventions of real media products
1. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
By Samuel Newell
2. I believe that my magazine does in fact use, develop
and challenge both forms and conventions of real
media products , for example on my front cover I
have used a large form of cover lines, the reason I
did this was due to me seeing it on the front off a
particular issue of XXL magazine(a prestigious rap
magazine), and realising that this was a tool to
attract its target audience I did this, as both my
magazine and XXL magazine have the same target
audience then evidently it will appeal to my target
audience also.
3. This is my front cover of my media product in comparison to
a real one (XXL), they both use many features in order to
create a complex media product for example they both use a
main image of a well known musical artist that is well suited
to their target audience.
Also they both have an obvious colour scheme which runs
through out the front cover this is important as it makes the
cover aesthetically pleasing, increasing the chance that the
consumer will buy this media product. In my product the
colour scheme is black red and white.
Both of the front covers have simple but effective mastheads in
the terms of effects used and colour scheme, this creates the
masthead to be clearly read by the consumer , also it adds to the
overall colour scheme to the front cover , also adding to its ability
to be aesthetically pleasing .