1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT USE,
DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE
FORMS AND CONVENTIONS
OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

2.  My masthead for my magazine succeeds my audience
expectations of a music magazine; it has the typical top left
hand corner positioning. The position of your masthead is
important as it allows it to be seen more clearly and easily,
this is crucial for a new magazine. When naming my magazine
I wanted to keep it simple and bold at the same time as its
simplicity makes it stand out. In slang terms the words
“Scenes” means when something is shocking and surprising,
so I wanted it to be both of them meanings to describe my
magazine. It also links in with a younger audience in which is
my target audience as these will know the meaning of the
word and straight away will know it’s aimed at them.
MASTHEAD

3.  I am looking at the front cover of my magazine for the mise-en-
scene of the images. Firstly, looking at my main image, the
clothing my model is wearing are very basic and black. I then
made it dark lightening and wanted my model’s face to be pale;
with this look it would make it look dark, gloomy and a little
scary. This look would fit in with my edition of the magazine
which was Halloween. Typical pop magazines main images are
model shoot like, they usually have no props and just look in to
the camera, so I wanted to follow this convention in my
magazine. As my target audience is young female girls, mostly it
would be a male main image as this is what would attract them,
but I went against that and used a female. My smaller images
are brighter as they will used for posters, the clothing of one
image is a male in a white top and bomber jacket this fits in with
a pop audience. As these types of clothing are stereotypically
mainstream and this is mainly the category my target audience
are in. All my photos are taken indoors, therefore I could adjust
lighten to adapt to the style I wanted for my magazine.
MAIN IMAGE

4.  My main model throughout the magazine wore the same basic
black dress as I wanted to keep this style as it is Halloween
also its a pop magazine, so if I changed her clothing
throughout the magazine it could of been mistaking for a
clothing magazine. I also used fake blood on my model on the
other pages, I could of done this on my front cover but I
thought this would be going all out to early and wanted to
keep it simple. I didn’t use other props as I felt this wasn’t a
convention used in pop magazines so I kept that going in my
magazine. All costumes used in my images fit in with the
genre of my magazine, as they look mainstream and not
different which is usually the case in pop magazines.
MODEL

5.  The people used in my magazine are all young and similar
ages as I felt like my target audience would be attracted to
these. I believe the people I used in my magazine easily show
who my intended target audience is. Many pop magazine
would use a lot of male images as this is what initially
attracts the intended target audience, I went against this
convention and used a female, this shows I’m confident in my
magazine. This could also attract feminist who believe
females should be on the front as much as males.
AUDIENCE

6.  The title font and style of my magazine is simple and
enthusiastic. It is very attractive for the audience as the fonts
are very bold and colourful. Although mine is a Halloween
edition, it is still a pop magazine so I wanted to keep it bold,
colourful so keeping it a colour scheme would then show the
audience the edition of my magazine. I used plenty of
different font to keep it interesting and not make my page
look repetitive. For example, on the front cover I used
different fonts and colour style on my cover lines making all
of them stand out in their own way. From a visual perspective
I found this looked more exciting and fun.
FONT AND STYLE

7.  The written content of my magazine consists of a feature
article, which includes an interview with the model from my
main image on the front cover. The interview is done
informally which is stereotypical to see in a pop magazine as
this is how the intended target audience would prefer to read
it. I wanted to make it chatty and free flowing so the
questions I asked I wanted to keep it in a chronological order
making it more of a story, I wanted to do this because the
main topic of the interview is to reflect on the past year of the
artists life and where they would like to go with their life now.
As they are an upcoming artist I believed it should be more of
finding out about the artist and what this artist can bring to
the pop industry. But keeping it chatty brings out the
personality of the artist and this is would begin a connection
between audience and artist.
WRITTEN CONTENT

8.  I think my magazine represents the pop theme throughout the
design of my magazine. When my target audience reads my
magazine they will know straight away it’s a pop magazine as
the content on my front cover follows the typical conventions
of a typical pop magazine. I have included the typical layout,
variety of fonts, colourful, compact design this is what the
typical pop magazine all have. I have also used stories from
the current pop industry which will automatically catch the
audience’s attention. I tried to use as many mainstream
words and features as I could as this is where my intended
target audience come from.
REPRESENTATION

9.  My layout is very compacted and I have squeezed as much as I
can in as this is a typical feature of a pop magazine. I used a
central image and cover line in appropriate places of a pop
magazine. In my contents page all features are listed clearly
with numbers, I also shoved as much as I can in to these
pages. Then going on to my double page spread I used a pull
quote in big font, stretching across the whole page. Again I
used more images of the artist on my front cover as she is the
focus point of my magazine. I also repeated the title of the
magazine in the top left corner, in the same font and colour
as the one of the front cover as I wanted to keep a house style
throughout my magazine as this is very important.
LAYOUT

10.  My contents page is one that would be typical of a pop
magazine, due to the colours used and also the different
features which are included in my magazine. Using images on
my contents page makes it look more attractive. The
presentation is neat and tidy, and I have decided to show the
features in a box with a triangle at the end with page numbers
included, this emphasis the features of the magazines so you
know where to go easily to find them. The contents page
needs to be easy to follow as this is where you go to find a
certain page you want.
CONTENTS PAGE