In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conv...
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
Cover-lines: the cover-lines
Use of lighting: I followed that I used were relevant and
the convention of using attracted the audience. This
lights typically found in a is a convention in itself.
club in the images seen in
my magazine. This portrays
the genre.
ABIDES
No editorial: after Layout of front cover: The layout is
researching existing a convention of any magazine.
products, magazines of The masthead is at the top and
this genre didn’t seem to the headline is placed at the
have an editorial. I bottom in the middle. This made
followed this convention. my piece look more professional.
2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
Images: The images in an event
in a club is a developed
convention. From the existing
products I analysed, I found that
a lot of them wrote about events
in clubs with professional
DEVELOPS
pictures of clubbers etc.
However, I developed this and in
my article, I used photos of
clubbers “taken by others.”
(content) This development
creates audience identification
and will hopefully boost sales.
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
Language: The language
style is more informal in
my product, in order to
Female objectification & female gain a different audience,
audience: Like before this was a challenge to
mentioned, other magazines the convention of using
give the impression of females technical words and
being provocative etc. In my having a formal writing
product, I challenged this and style.
CHALLENGES
didn’t show images in which
suggest negative
representations of females.
This is a feminist perspective.
My product was also aimed at Images used in contents: I used all
more of a female audience images of lights and no artists whereas
rather than male, this was real media products show images of the
challenge to the conventions. artist, DJ’s ect. I portrayed just lights to
show the atmosphere of a club.