This document describes how the author's media product uses conventions of real magazines. Some key conventions included are: - A bold red masthead that relates to the genre and stands out. - Pull quotes from stories to pique interest while matching the color scheme. - A contents page with a guitar background and feathered photos of features/cover stars to look natural. - An overall layout, color scheme, and use of conventions that make the magazine look like a real product for its target music genre audience.

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

2. Dateline/
Price
Masthead Cover
/Banner lines
Reversed
Pull-Quote out cover
(anchorage) lines
Boost
picture –
Centre of
Splash
Visual
Interest
(CVI) Barcode

3. Sub
headings
Headline
(title of
page)
Boost
Pictures
Sans
Serif font

4. Boost
picture
(CVI)
Boost
Image
Reversed
out ‘pull
Interview
quote’
(sans serif)

5. I believe that it is quite possible to recognise my magazine as a real
magazine because of the key features and conventions I have used to
portray the genre of music I aimed my target audience at.
The layout for my magazine is pretty simple but effective however it does
have a lot of key conventions on the front cover and the colour scheme is
black, red and white. Black connotes something mysterious, red connotes
the danger and white connotes light and innocence.
The mast head is my favourite convention on the front cover as it looks
professional and easily could be recognised as a real magazine just by
looking at it.
The bold red masthead relates to my genre and is eye-catching and stands
out the red connotes the danger and energy of such magazine where as it
could also show the passion for the magazine.

6. Its common that you will find a pull-quote from the magazines stories and this
will give some information about what is yet to come in the magazine and will
hopefully interest you further. The colour scheme is matching the rest of the
magazine and stands out with the use of ‘bevel and emboss’ adding contour
structure and a bolder feel to the text.

7. My contents page layout is bright but structured. The background is a electric guitar
which is typical to find within a rock/house sort of genre magazine. The pictures of
my feature/cover star are feathered to make them look more natural and to look as if
they fitted in the guitar...this is much better way as the edges don’t stand out so they
don’t look like its just placed on there like the original photo.