2. Q: How does your product use or challenge
conventions and how does it represent social
groups or issues?
3. My media product uses many codes and
conventions that are commonly seen in many
magazines, for example the masthead, which is a
very important part of a magazine as it tells the
reader the name of the magazine and sets it apart
from other magazines. Like most magazine my
masthead is placed in the middle and top of the
magazine but I feel that it also challenges the
convention as my masthead uses more than one
color, unlike most magazine that only use one
color for the whole masthead. Another important
convention is the main cover line and the
coverlines these are both very important and they
show what the reader may find inside the
magazine so the reader is interested in buying the
magazine. The name of the artist being big and
prominent is also very important in the main cover
line to catch the readers internets and to make
them buy the magazine. The puff I used, I feel,
really challenges the conventions as the shape of
the puff, which is a heart, is not very common as
most puffs are circles and unlike most puffs I have
put headphones on of the puff to further reinforce
the concept that this is a music magazine. The
main cover image has the conventions that are
Looking directly in the camera and the camera angle is mid shot which is also a very
common convention in magazines. Other important conventions that I have included are
the coverlines that are seen in almost every magazine along with the barcode and date
and the tagline.
4. The content page
challenges a big
convention that music
magazines have. Music
magazines for example
have very colorful and
filled up content pages
full of images and
information whilst my
content page is very to
the point and clean cut
with only one image
and not so much
information. I wanted
my content page this
way because I feel like
too much information
and images confuses
the reader and I want
my readers to
easily find the page number to whatever article they are interested in no time. I also
added additional information in a very sensible way, so that readers don’t miss it
because of too much information cramped into one page, I added information about
how to win prizes in a bright yellow box to the readers attention and making it hard to
miss and also added a strap line in the bottom for people who want to always stay up
to date with what the magazine is up to. I also choose the image as it is the most
important article of the magazine and so I wanted more emphasis on it which is what
most magazines do when something is most likely to be read by most of the readers .
5. My magazine follows the most common
conventions
of a music magazine double spread. Like the
title of my double spread is a pull quote from
the magazine and just below it I gave a little
insight of what the interview is about and
highlighted the important information in red,
Just like in the example below. Other
conventions I have followed in my music
magazine like the standard 3 columns of the
interview. One big image of the artist being
interviewed and one small and one or more
small ones. I also followed the conventions of
Other conventions I followed in my double
spread are the drop capital I used in the
beginning of the article, to clearly show
where the article begins from and the little
box I the end of the article to show that it
has ended. Another important convention I
used was writing the page number and the
name of the magazine at the bottom of the
page this is done in many magazines . A
convention I challenged in my double
spread is that I kept the background of my
image to the original background I took it
in whilst most magazine Photoshop a
different background or choose a plain
background.
6. The social group that I’m trying
to represent are mostly teen
girls from the age of 13-19, who
are up-to-date with the latest
music and upcoming artist. As
you can tell by the model I
choose who is about the same
age as our readers dressed
modestly and fashionable
attracting those audiences. The
price of my magazine being
Rs.150, you can safely assume
that my magazine will be
purchased by the middle class
and higher classes. The clothes
is only worn by a certain
percent of Pakistan and
my magazine is only being
targeted to them also
about 30% of Pakistan
can read English so this
also targeted to only that
class.
7. Q: How does your product engage with the
audiences and how would it be disturbed as
a real media text?
8. My magazine tries to engage
with the audience in several
ways. I used bright colors
and bold writing to catch the
readers attention. I also try
to engage with the audience
by having competitions and
giving away prizes and also
including quizzes in my
magazine so my readers
stay interested. I also give
the audiences a chance to
connect with us personally
by following us on social
media websites such as
Face book and Twitter.
9. The institution I have planned to
publish my magazine through is an
through an independent magazine
publisher who are based in Karachi.
They publish a teen magazine
called “SMASH” every month for
teenagers aged 13-17 about the
latest news in the media world about
celebrities and movies etc. The
magazine is well-known and read by
a lot of teenagers in Pakistan.
I selected this publishers for my
music magazine because they aim
at the same target audience and
age group as I do, as teenagers and
most up-to-date with lasted songs
and best albums in pop music this
would be a perfect publishing
company for my magazine.https://www.facebook.com/SmashMa
gazineOfficial/info
Smash is Pakistan's best selling
magazine for the young. It cover
wide ranging interests. From
movies & games to trends and
styles. Books, arts and crafts, the
copy is packed with information any
young mind needs to know!
10. Q: How did your production skills develop
throughout this project?
11. My production skills improved vastly
throughout the production of my the
magazine. I learned so many new
ways to improve my magazine and
make it look exactly how I wanted it to
from the help of Photoshop and by
learning to use different tools and
techniques. By learning to use these
tools my magazine not only looked
professional but very well produced.
Moreover I learned to incorporate
codes and conventions of magazine
more skillful way and in way to make
the magazine standout and look ideal.
On top of that I learned the importance
of layout and typography when making
the front cover, content page or double
spread and how you really need to
understand the importance of knowing
what should go wear and what looks
best and how something should look
which I believed really improved while
creating this magazine.
Not only that but I also learned how to
better pictures for my magazine and
learned to take pictures form different
angles to make it look better and more
attractive.
12. Q: How did you integrate technologies –
software, hardware and online- in this
project? Description of components.
13. I have learnt a lot form the
duration of constructing my
media product for example
they’re a number of
technologies I have used in
this project. The first thing
that we had to do was make
a blog where I posted all my
work and all the things I
produced throughout making
the magazine there.
I used www.wordpress.com
to make my blog. I choose
this as I found it the painless,
simple and easy to use apart
form that it was highly
recommended to use for
making a media studies blog.
Making a blog can be
challenging at first as
choosing the right theme and
how to write a post were
14. Another technology I used
for developing my media
product was Photoshop.
Photoshop was one of the
most important technology
for the production of my
magazine. It helped me edit
my magazine and made it
look exactly how I wanted it
to look.
Photoshop also included
different tools and
techniques that helped in the
production of my magazine
immensely. I learned how to
edit the lighting and contrast
and other ways of
manipulating the images to
make them look more
professional and well
qualified.
I frist faced a lot of problems
when I stared to use
15. I used the internet for a lot if
different reasons. Most
important of them being for
research. I used the internet to
know the codes and
conventions of a music
magazine and what were the
things I would have to do to
make my magazine look like a
music magazine.
I researched on the internet for
masthead fonts and other fonts
I would use in magazine.
Moreover I used the internet
for times when I was stuck in
Photoshop and it helped a lot
as I would across video tutorials
or step to step images showing
how something was done.
The internet also helped me to
look at different magazines and
get ideas and inspirations. This
really helped me in
