The document discusses the conventions of magazine front covers promoting films and compares them to the student's own magazine cover design. Some conventions it addresses include using slogans, featuring one main image related to the film, and listing other articles or features. While the student's design incorporates some of these conventions by including a slogan and listing features, it challenges conventions by using three main character images instead of one to help establish the storyline. The document also discusses how the student's title conforms to conventions by being bold and eye-catching to draw attention.

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

6. The images used on my design: For my own design, I used more than one image on my magazine, I used 3 images of all 3 of the main characters in my film. I did this because I thought it would help audiences create more of a narrative of the film if more images are featured, this is because if I used just one image, it would be difficult to establish a storyline. This aspect of my design challenges the conventions of existing magazines that are featuring romantic comedy films. 3 images used...

7. Common conventions of existing magazine covers: Features: On film magazine front pages it is common that other features of the magazine will be listed in some way on the design, this is to inform readers to what else they can expect to read about inside the magazine, the features will either be listed down the side of the page of in some cases dotted around the design.

8. Features of my own magazine: These are the features that I put onto my own magazine, these list a variety of different movies that will be featured in the magazine. I listed these towards the left hand side of my page in order for them to be clearly seen on the design. This aspect of my magazine design, conforms with the expectations of real existing magazine front covers

9. Common conventions of existing film magazine front pages: Titles: These are existing Empire and Film magazines, these titles are very bold and they stand out against the contrasting background, this is a common convention to film magazines, as the title needs to be the first thing that audiences see when they look at magazines, it is also common for them to be in bold colours either black or white, but sometimes other colours are used too, it depends greatly on the genre of the films that the particular magazine features.

10. My title: This is my own title of my magazine ‘Total Cinema’ I chose to put this text in a bold font to make sure it stands out and is eye-catching. When I got people to give me feedback on my magazine cover, they said to me that when they first looked at my cover, the title was the first thing that grabbed their attention. I also chose this font as I thought it linked well with the genre of my film as it's not too hard looking, it looks curved and softer than normal titles, this is because the magazine is featuring a romantic comedy film. This part of my magazine conforms with the conventions of normal magazine front covers that I have been researching.