2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media product uses allot of the conventions of a normal music
magazine by changing the ideals and purposes of them for example
the title of Q magazine which I have changed to suit girls of the same
area , race and social class witch is British coce aisian middleclass
aged 16 to 23 as this was an open and un targeted area of the public
with a reasonable amount of
3. This is the masthead.
The masthead is the
letter Q inside a red
box.
The box is on the left
top side of the page. It
follows the 3rd rule as it
is in the first 3rd box of
the page.
There is only one
cover line on the
side of the page.
This also follows the
3rd rule. It uses
house style of white
red and black with a
formal
4. I believe my magazine challenges the usual conventions of a music mag in many
ways also for example
The full stretched top of the
page masthead a constant and
common occurrence in all
music and other magazines so
The formatting and will be recognised and noticed
construction is a
convention that
does follow the
usual settings as is
has been split into
three sections and
clearly has two
ears as these red
lines should
indicate
5. But my magazine also use a lot of the conventions of the common music
magazine and
The
formatting
and vi
6. Q
magazine
is
appceptabl
y better
than mine
with its My contents page
more really is very
detailed different from the
and almost same type of
to magazine as it gives
functional less information and
layout and pushes the
theme magazines reader
strait towards the
and the
artist they want
pictures without giving allot
are m information about
the pages hopefully
making them curios
enough to move
forward in the
magazine
7.
image representations and views of the audience
the picture I have selected uses allot of the usual photo
conventions in order to be linked strongly to the female
audience with intentions to create a connections that have
seen allot of other magazine to be repeatable bought by allot
of these women. the posing of the images have been well
linked to the any other magazine today with a medium shot
looking directly at them depressing in as fashionable clothes
as possible to try and contain a bit of sex appeal to make the
some girls want to be more like the idealistic views the
media try to put out to women to make them feel lower
about them self and feel it helps by buying their products.
8.
As I have previous mentioned my target
audience my target audience is middle classed
15 to 24 aged white girls and suitably educated
who would live at home with parents and are
really just finding their own style of music not
defined or force upon them by ther pers and
the media E.G. If a young girl does not know or
like the new boy band child may feel alianated
9. My magazine will be published be bauer as
they already have Q magazine and if XOXO
were to be published it would allow them to
control both males and female interested in
music at that age and have a more dirrect link
to these similar but different groups and more
advertising could available as the companies
can aim allot more at the audience and post
products aimed at their gender directly
10. In the creation of both my magazines I used
many tools both physically and online this
includes wordpress and cooltext i also used
computer software provided by the collage
indesign,adobe photoshop,microsoft wordand
power point i also used a nikon camera and
light reflector.
11. Over all I do believe my magazine could have
allot better but was up to a standard that many
some magazine still fail to reach the picture
was vigorously selected and was conventional
considering the task the text does not imediatly
relate to the target audiences standard exactly
but the layout is like the conventions they
would be used to and the magazine would fit
an opportunity for today's market to use and
possibly thieve with.
