The document discusses how the media product challenges conventions of real magazines. It covers the masthead, fonts, barcode, photography style, page numbers, and cover lines. For each element, it provides examples of conventions from existing magazines and discusses design choices made for the media product to either follow or challenge conventions. The goal was to make elements like the masthead and page numbers eye-catching while keeping the font simple to aid readability. Posed photography was used to depict the main story as in researched magazines.

1. In what ways does your
media product
use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of
real media products?
Ben Dickinson
AS Media

2. Items I will be covering:
•Masthead
•Fonts
•Barcode
•Style of photography
•Page numbers
•Cover lines

3. Existing masthead
Distorted writing. I used this
style of font for my masthead
because my main research
option was Kerrang magazine.
This font is more plain and
My final masthead doesn’t really suit the
rock genre. It was
probably used because it
is easy to read and
remember.
As can be seen at these examples my masthead does follow the rock genre because it’s
a little messed up and tattered but still easy to read. The existing mastheads spread
across the whole width of the page but mine cuts short because of the barcode. I
decided to that because of where I had other things on the page the barcode looked
best there. On both existing mastheads nothing is really covering it because they want
people to know and remember the name of there magazine and it is the same on mine
for the same reason.

4. This magazine uses
more a satanic font
because it would
appeal to its target
audience and isn't too
complex to read. I
chose not to do mine
like this because I
wanted a font that
was very easy to read
so the reader can find
the page they want
easily
Used same idea
because it is simple and
easy to read. I used a simple font
so that the reader
would be able to find
what they are looking
for easily.

5. Existing barcodes
On both of these barcodes there is a
price so that the customer knows how
much this product is. It also has the
standard barcode on it as well. It also
has other information on the
magazine.
My final barcode
On my barcode it only used the
standard barcode because most of the
other information is of the cover of the
magazine instead.

6. Existing products
All the pictures on the existing products
are either posed or live. On the front cover
it has a close up of the lead singer of the
band Foo Fighters as the main attraction
on the magazine. It does this because it
will be the main story inside the magazine
and then the reader knows what to expect
to find inside before hey buy it.
My final pictures
I used all posed pictures for both of these
pages because when I looked at my
research I saw that the majority were
posed. I also had the lead singer from the
band I was writing about to pose and I got
a close up so people know what the main
story in the magazine is about.

7. Page numbers I noticed during my research
that the page numbers
really ‘popped’ out the page
because they were trying to
be one of the main eye
catches because the reader
looks at the contents to find
out where certain stories
are to read. I have done in
this mine by putting the font
size up and putting the
colour of the number in red
on the grey background. The
main difference in the two
pictures is that I kept the
font very simple so that the
reader can read it easily.

8. Cover lines
Both cover lines are very similar in purpose in design because the
purpose of both of them is that the person buying it knows a little bit
of what is going on inside before they buy it. The design is similar as
well because they both have the main story in big bold writing and in
contrasting colours to the background to make it stick out more.