3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Puff
Sub image on cover
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Rule of thirds: As you can see the
masthead is in the first third of the
magazine this is because of the way the
magazines are stacked in shops. The
magazine is stacked with the first third
showing therefore the masthead is usually
dominant of this section because the
consumer will see it first and it is the most
recognisable aspect of the magazine. This
reinforces media conventions because the
title is always in the first third because of
the way the magazines are stacked. My
title further reinforces the conventions of a
magazine because it is horizontal rather
than challenging conventions with a
vertical title.
5. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Image is
Rule of thirds: The main dominant of
cover image is also central to the 2nd third
the cover this reinforces
media magazine conventions
as it is the most used style.
There isn’t much going on in
the mid section (2nd third)
this makes the cover image
dominant, because the image
is dominant it draws the
consumers attention towards
the image and the cover girl
being a normal girl makes the
audience relate to her and
the magazine.
6. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Unlike many media print
products my magazine
doesn’t have a barcode, my
magazine doesn’t have a
barcode because it is free as it
is a student magazine. I made
my magazine free because it
would incline the students to
pick it up and read it. It’s more
appealing to students because
it is free. Also being a student
myself I feel as if everything is
super expensive and am more
likely to collect a free
magazine than one I have to
pay for.
7. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
My magazine conforms to most media
conventions for example, my dateline is
directly underneath the title and I have
stuck to a set house style. The matching
house style brings together the magazine
because it makes it look complete and its
more appealing to the consumer
because there’s not too much going on.
My magazine also conforms to media
conventions by having different sized
fonts to draw attention to certain aspects
of the contents, and the use of
capitalisation is a subtle way to draw the
viewers attention to a certain story or
article in the magazine.
8. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
Title
Letter from
the editor
Where you can find
the picture stories
9. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
My contents pages
conforms to media print
conventions by having a
letter to the editor, most
contents pages include a
letter to the editor to make
the consumer feel more
including and part of
something this reinforces
the need for affiliation in
people. It also reinforces
conventions by having a
dateline, datelines are
conventionally used on
magazine contents pages
near the title, my dateline is
situated by the title.
10. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of media products?
My contents has a total of
three big dominant pictures
on it which is more than
conventional magazines this
is because it attracts the
readers attention and gives
the reader a further insight
to the contents of the
magazine. As you can see to
the left there is a white
strip before the text box
this is there to allow ‘bleed’
so when in print the binding
or such wouldn’t
compromise the text.
11. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I learnt useful skills in Another skill I
Photoshop and Indesign acquired whilst
whilst making my making the
preliminary student preliminary
magazine. The most useful magazine was
for me personally was the using layers to my
use of the eyedropper advantage. Using
tool. I found this tool layers helped me
particularly useful see the magazine
because it allowed me to in steps and
get the exact same colours made it easier to
throughout my cover and manage different
my contents page so the parts of text,
colours were exactly to images and such.
the house style and didn’t
even differ by one shade.
12. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
I used this bar to change the angles
of my pictures on indesign. It was a
useful technique to learn because
the positioning and angle of the
pictures drew the consumers
attention back onto the page which
made them look at it for a longer
amount of time
I used the box tool to make it appear
like there were borders around my
pictures. This made the pictures stand
out and attract the consumers
attention to them
