1. The document compares the conventions used in the student's magazine products to existing media products. 2. Key differences noted include things like the prominence of the main cover line, use of fonts, number of images, and inclusion of things like social media links and descriptions. 3. The student reflects on ways their products could be improved, such as making elements more prominent or consistent with the overall color scheme. Comparing to other media helped them identify enhancements.

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

2. Key conventions used in each
product.

3. FRONT COVER.
Masthead
Main Cover Line
Cover Line

4. From comparingmymagazine front cover for “Cleethorpes Life” to anotherexisting media product, which was a front cover from a Vogue magazine,I have noticed
that Ihaveincluded more conventions than the Voguemagazine front cover. Therewas a few conventions that I spotted that my magazinefront cover had which the
Vogue magazinefront cover didn’t have. For example myfront cover included a barcode, date and price.
Another observation that Imade when comparing thetwo media products was that mymain cover linewas not actually as prominent as the Vogue main cover line
and was quite similar to the othercover lines. Thereforeif I was going to tryand improve myfront cover for mymagazine, I would probably makethe main cover line
a bit largerand bolder font so that it stands out from therest.
I also noticed that the Vogue magazine front cover had a clear colourscheme of mainlyorange,neutral tones and darkernavy and purple. Thefont colour also
matchedthis colourscheme which makesthemagazine look more put together and professional. I also strongly believe that my front cover for mymagazine has
quite a clear colour scheme of blues, purples and a neutralyellow toned colour whichI have also incorporated in the font colour.
Thefonts on the Vogue magazines are all verysimilar, if not the same just in different sizes and boldness. I took a slightly different approach with myuse of fonts as I
haveused quite a few noticeably different fonts in all different sizes and boldness. I did this because this is what I pictured mymagazine front cover to look likeand I
thought that the mixtureof fonts gave something extra to myfront cover.

5. CONTENTS PAGE.
Masthead
Subheadings
Page numbers
Articles
Issue date

6. From comparing myContents page for mymagazine “Cleethorpes Life” to anotherexisting media product, whichis a contents page from Vogue magazine, Ihave
noticed that therea quitea few differences between the two media products. Something that I noticed was that the Voguecontents pages masthead says “vogue”
ratherthan “contents” which mycontents page says. I think that is still quite effective as the vogue magazine has all of the other conventions of a contents page so
readers will still beable to identify that it is a contents page without it havingto say “ contents”.
Another difference that I noticed was that the vogue magazine featured one main image whereas mycontents page features 3 images. I havealso included a page
numberat the bottom of the page which the contents page for Vogue does not have.
Other thanthat the two media products both use the same conventions of a contents page insimilar ways. For example both have used anissue date at the top right
cornerof thepage to show the reader whenthe magazinewas released. Theyhavealso both useda Masthead, Subheadings which are made slightly bolder/larger
than the article names so that theystand out from the text more arethese are more important features that youwould want to be more eyecatching to the readers to
draw them into read further.Finallyboth media products haveused page numbersto show what page the readerhas to go to in order to read the article that they
would liketo.
If Iwas to improve mycontents page now Iwould probably makea few minor adjustments to the way that the page numbers areshown so that it looks a bit more
professional. I would also maybemakethe Masthead slightly largerand bolder so that it is moreprominent.

7. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.

8. From comparing…

9. BILLBOARD.
NAME OF MAGAZINE/SHOP
Images/Image

10. From comparingmy billboard with an existing billboard that is advertising Topshop, I havenoticed that thereare a few features that the Topshop billboard has that
mybillboard doesn’t have. For example, the Topshop has their social media linkson the billboard at the top right handcorner.Thereare also four main images onthe
Topshop billboard whereas I only used one main image on mybillboard that is the image of the front cover of mymagazine.
I think that the main focus of the Topshop billboard is the four main images as they stand out the most on the billboard and are likely to catch people’s eyesfirst. On
mybillboard I feel like themain focus is the text as I have made it quite big and bold so it will stand out to people first. Ihavealso included the front cover of my
magazine onthe billboard so that people will knowwhat thebillboard is advertising.
After reviewing it, I noticed certain things that I could improveabout mybillboard. I thought that it would improvemybillboard if I put mywebsite somewhere on it
so people knowwhereto go to find out whereto buythe magazine if theywant to, so I decided to put mywebsite on the billboard inthe bottom left corner.
I thinkthat I used therelevant conventions for my billboard such as big and bold text to stand out to people passing bythe billboard. I thinkit is quite eyecatching
and Ihavealso stuck to thesame colour scheme that I have used throughoutmywhole production work which is dark blue and purples. I also put the price of the
magazine in bold and red font just underneaththe image of the front cover as I wanted this to besomething that would stand out and again, catch peoples eye.

11. WEBSITE.
Menu with hyperlinks
Images
Name of the magazine

12. From comparingmywebsite with anexisting website, I havenoticed that theyboth share a lot of the same conventions. For example theyboth havetheNameof
what the website is based on inthe top left cornerof the website, this is so that people know what the website is and it acts a likea title to the website.
Both websites also haveseveral images on them to makethe website look more visually pleasing. I think that the images that I used tie in with the “seaside” colour
scheme that I have used throughoutall of myproduction work.. Ithink that the other websites images also match well with the colourscheme of their website. My
images on myhomepage are set out slightly different to the images as I haveused one main strip image that dominates quite a bit of space. I used this as I thought
that it brings my website together andmade it look more professional.
I also noticed that the other website has a brief description on the homepage which is something that Icould have used to makemywebsite better.