My magazine product uses and challenges some conventions of real media products. It breaks conventions by having cover lines all over the page rather than confined to one side. It uses an unconventional black, white, and blue color scheme. The masthead overlaps the main image, whereas conventions typically have the image overlap the masthead. The magazine follows conventions regarding pricing and barcode location but makes them more explicit. It breaks conventions through using different font styles and sizes than typical magazines.

2. Key signifier
Anchorage Text
Masthead
Cover Lines
Secondary lead
Main image
Menu strip
Anchorage text
Cover lines
Pricing
Barcode

3. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
My magazine has cover lines all over
The page, this breaks conventions because
Normally you have cover lines on one side
Like on Vibe’s front cover but I have them
All over the place to show the core content
My magazine offers
My magazine has a
Black/White/Blue colour
scheme which
Breaks conventions and is quite
original, you never see black,
Blue on magazines it was
inspired by XXL’s black/red
colour scheme
My magazine header follows conventions and gives
Simple information clearly and precisely.
My masthead overlaps the main
image Whereas in the Vibe magazine
the main image overlaps the
masthead, that is the convention and
they use this because Vibe is a very
well-known magazine so they can do
this knowing that the customers will
know the name.
My magazine uses standard
conventions in means of the
main image as it is covering the
whole front cover like most
front covers do with.
My magazine follows conventions with
The location of the pricing/date and barcodes
But it is more explicit.

4. Heading with features
Under them with page
Numbers for easy
navigation
My magazine follows certain
Conventions when it comes to
Simplicity, just like the Vibe
Contents page my magazine is simple
My masthead is not in bold and it
uses a different curlier font, this
breaks conventions because you
normally see big block capitals
like on the Vibe magazine but
I’ve decided not to follow
that convention
My text is a lot larger
in general than the
Vibe contents page,
where the main focus
in the Vibe magazine
is the image, mine
focuses more on the
text, this breaks
conventions.

5. My magazine breaks
conventions by having larger
sized text. It also breaks
conventions because the
artwork doesn’t cover the
whole of the double page
spread as opposed to the Jay-Z
double page spread. It also has
a lot more text, and the
heading is smaller and at the
top right. The main focus is the
artwork which is conventional. I