1. The document describes how a media product uses and develops conventions of real magazines. It includes a cover, contents page, and double-page article spread that follow conventions such as placement of mastheads and images but also develop conventions through design choices like unique color schemes and layouts of images and text. 2. Key elements like mastheads, images, cover lines, page numbers, and bylines are included and positioned according to typical magazine standards. However, the document also discusses how the layout, colors, and pairing of images challenge conventions to create a cohesive dark theme. 3. Overall, the media product draws from real magazine formats but puts its own spin through modified design elements to both adhere to and

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

2. Cover
Masthead: It follows Images: I have used a
conventions as it is main cover image of a
placed in the top third of male artist and 2 smaller
the page but is not in the images of female artists
left hand-corner. The so that the magazine
masthead also does not has a mixture of both
have a box surrounding genders.
it.
Cover-lines: I have
Sub-lines: My cover used cover lines to
lines have extra annotate all my images
information underneath as well as 2 others on
them called sub-lines. the cover. The main
These give extra info on images’ cover line is the
the cover line story. biggest and the main
article inside. This sticks
to conventions as there
Colour Scheme: The are lots of cover lines
colours I selected fit in
used.
with my dark, grungy
theme. I used different
shades of purple and Dateline & Barcode:
used black and white to I have included an issue
stand out against them. date/number, a website
address, magazine price
and a barcode.

3. Contents
Masthead: I have made Dateline: I made
the word contents big and sure I added a date
bold in the top third of the and magazine issue
page. I also surrounded the number under the
masthead in a box to made masthead.
it more striking and added
the magazine’s logo in the
top right corner to help
Page Numbers: I
used page numbers
make the magazine
next to the magazine
recognizable.
features to make it
easier for readers to
Images: I have used 3 navigate through the
images, all of different magazine.
sizes. These all represent
articles inside the
magazine.
Features: My
features consist of
other articles that are
Colour Scheme: I have included in the
stuck to my theme on my magazine and give
cover but added the colour readers a contents of
pink to make the page what to look for. The
slightly different for readers images also link to
and to make text stand out. the features as they
have page numbers
written on them.

4. Double-Page Spread Article: I split the article
into 2 columns framing the
Masthead & Sub-line: My Colour Scheme: I have images. I surrounded them
article’s title is the artists name kept my colour scheme with a black box to keep the
which is surrounded in a box to dark and grungy but used text from blending in with
make it eye-catching. It included a different colours such as the background. This sticks
sub-line underneath it that dark teal and brown. I kept to conventions by keeping
outlines a quote from the featured the colours black and white articles in neat columns on
artist. I have also added the as they stand out. the double-page spread.
magazine logo and a ‘featured’
heading so readers know which
section they are reading.
Images: I have made my images
side-by-side so that their
background blend into each other
and it looks like there are 2 of the
artist. This develops conventions
as this is not the usual layout of
an article.
By-line: I used a by-line under
my images to tell readers who the
article and images were created
by.