The document discusses the layout and design conventions used in the creation of a school magazine. It describes how the magazine cover includes a main image, barcode, school logo, issue details, and stories listed with page numbers to mimic real magazine formats. However, it challenges conventions by placing the masthead at the bottom of the cover page rather than the top to create a unique look. The contents page is organized with a neatly spaced list of story titles, images, and page numbers, all in the same consistent font and size with color-coding to match the primarily green color scheme of the cover.

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

2. Strapline
Cover lines
and blurb
Cover lines
and blurb
Puff
Barcode
Masthead
Main
Image
School Logo
Issue
Number
and term

3. Title
Images
relating to
stories with
page
Stories numbers
featured in
the
magazine
with page
numbers

4. In order to make sure that my magazine looked professional, I
wanted to stick to the convention layout of a front cover and
magazine as much as possible. I did this by including on main
image on the front cover, instead of many different pictures, as
well as a barcode in the bottom right corner. In terms of my
masthead I challenged the forms of convention by placing it at
the bottom of the page rather than the top. I did this to give my
magazine cover a more unique look. In terms of the image used
on the front cover, I used the most popular picture voted by my
target audience. The main colour that I used on the cover was
green as this was one of the most popular colours and it is the
school colour. I also tried to use gender neutral colours on the
cover so that it would not look as though it was completely aimed
at girls.

5. On my contents page, I wanted it to look neat, organised
and professional. To do this I keep the story titles in a
neatly spaced list and the images level. I kept the writing on
the left hand side, all the same font and same size. I colour
coded each line of the contents page to help the reader see
which number was for which article. I tried to use a range of
colours to make the contents page look interesting, while
also mostly using green to match the main colour on the
cover page.