Forms and conventions finished

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Question 1: In what ways does your media
product use, challenge or develop forms and
conventions of real media products?
By Findlay Young

Forms and Conventions of my Front Cover
For my front cover I have aimed to follow the forms and conventions of
the magazine ‘VIBE’. This magazine has been rated as one of the top
RnB magazines currently publishing. Therefore I felt that my magazine
would benefit more by following their forms and conventions. As you
can see from the two magazine covers on the right, I have chosen to
follow the layout of the magazine ‘VIBE’. I have tried to use the same
conventions of the magazine cover on the right. As the genre of my
Magazine is RnB and so is VIBE, I thought it would be good to follow
the layout of that magazine. An RnB article needs to be slick and
accurate. All things need to align, the text needs to be the right size in
order for it to look good on the cover, the image of the artist needs to
be slick, attractive and eye catching. The title needs to be bold in order
for it to catch the readers eye straight away. The Cover Lines are
intrigue the reader the most because that’s what the main article in the
magazine is about. The cover lines need to stand out. Also the name
of the Artist needs to be big and bold on the cover because then the
reader knows who the artist is and who the magazine is covering an
article on.

Forms and Conventions of My Front
Cover
Master head:
• My master head is located at the top of my front cover. I have done this because people always start from the top of the
page and read down. I have put it at the top of the page because I want it to be the first thing the reader see’s. The
master head is more visible at the top rather than in the middle of the page etc.
• My master head is a different font and size to my other text because I want it to stand out and be eye catching to the
reader. The master head is the most important text on the page, therefore it needs to stand out the most. I have chosen
a recognizable font that is established with the genre of RnB.
• The master head also fills a quarter of the page so it is clear and visible to the reader.
• As you can see I have tried to follow the layout of the magazine vibe pictured in the top right. My Article master head is
a font that is recognized with RnB. My master head and the master head vibe are both behind the face/head of the
main artist.

Cover
Head Lines:
S My Head Line is located in the bottom third of the page. I have chosen to
use the colour white because it stands out over the navy blue hoodie
that my artist is wearing. It stands out because of the contrast in the two
colours, one in bright summery colour and one is a dark winter colour.
S I have transformed the text by stretching the height of it. I have done this
to the make the text more striking on the page. I made the text taller in
height, but the same in width because I wanted the text bigger, but didn’t
want to increase the width because I did not have enough room on the
page.
S As you can see from the images on the right, my head line (Terence
Badboyrinsa) is very similar is style to the vibe one (Keri Hilson). Both of
them start on the left hand side and finish in the middle towards the right
hand side. They have been put there because people read from left to
right. Therefore as the head line is arguably the most important text,
people need to be reading that first.

Cover
S Cover Lines:
S Cover Lines are important because they give the reader an indication of
what this music magazine is going to be about. Therefore my cover lines
tell the reader what this music magazine is about. For example ‘Rick Ross:
“How I Dropped 100 Pounds.”’
S For my cover lines, I have made the text different colours so that they all
individually stand out. I have chosen to use the colour scheme Blue,
Black and Grey.
S As you can see from the images, I have tried to follow he Cover lines of
VIBE. For example I have a quote from Terence BadBoyRinsa and Vibe
has a quote from TI. I also have a list of people who are going to be
featured in the magazine. And I have added some more cover lines than
Vibe has to intrigue the reader more.
S There are also margins on either side of the page so the text does not
look like it is falling off the page. The name f the artists are clear for the
reader to view.

Cover
S Selling Line:
S The selling line is typically above the master head although sometimes it is at the bottom of
the page.
S I have put my selling line at the top of the page above the master head. My text is in black
because it stands out against the white background which an effect on the reader because
its eye catching. Also people read from the top to the bottom, so if they read “RnB’s leading
Music across the Globe” they are going to be intrigued as to watch else is in the magazine.
S In the magazine Vibe, there selling line is at the top of the page of there master head. I
have copied there style but I have changed the font and the colour scheme. Theirs is a
white text which stands out against the black background where as mine is black text
which stands out against the white background.

Forms and Conventions of my
Contents Page
S Features – What’s inside
S Features are used in a contents page to show the reader
what page different artists are on and what that page is
going to be about. For example might have a page
number, the artist name and a sentence on what this page
will be on.
S As for the rest of my magazine I have aimed to follow the
forms and conventions of the magazine VIBE. As you can
see I have tried to copy the magazine, whilst making it
different at the same time. I copied the title of the features
being in white writing with a dark background. I decided to
go for navy instead of black but it works better for my
colour scheme. With the page numbers, I have made the
numbers bigger that the other text like on vibe, but I have
put a navy background behind similar to features title. I
have also copied the magazine by putting text under the
page number and subtitle to give the reader a bit of
information on what that page is about.

Forms and Conventions of My
Contents Page
S Columns:
S On my contents page, I decided to only use two
columns. I only used two columns to ensure my
contents page did not look too crowded. By using two
columns is meant I could make my contents page very
stylish and accurate with the placement of texts and
images. RnB magazines are renowned for being
accurate and slick.
S As you can see from the contents page on the right
which I have aimed to follow, they only have two
columns, one for the text and one for the images. I
thought it would be good to follow the same consider
that vibe is a renowned magazine in the RnB genre. I
also think it looks good because its stylish and not over
crowded.

Forms and Conventions of My
Contents Page
S Photos:
S On my contents page I have included an image of my cover
artist with another artist. The conventions for images on a
contents page is for them to not all be photos of the cover
artist. They need to include photos of other artists or articles
in the magazine. That is why I have included a photo of my
cover artist with another artist in the photo and I have
included another photo of a different artist. I have decided to
make the image of my artist of the other artist the biggest
because that artist is attracting the reader.
S My image is very similar to the image on the contents page of
vibe., this is because the artist on that page is very similar to
my cover artist and I think that the photo represents the
personality of my cover artist very well.
S I have included another image on my contents page unlike
the vibe one because I want there to be a difference in the
two contents pages. I also think its good to have another
artist on there to inform the reader of another article in the
magazine.

Forms and conventions of My Contents
Page
S Page Title – ‘CONTENTS’
S The page title I used for inspiration is called ”the A-side” from the magazine vibe. I liked how it looked with
the black writing over the white background. I also like it how the ‘A’ is bigger than the other letters. On my
contents page I decided to switch the colour and background around. I chose for white text on a black
background. I also like how the date of the magazine underneath looks on top of the black background. I
decided to copy that with the date and the website of my magazine.
S I like the phrase ‘the A-side’ as the title of the contents page because it means ‘the side of a pop single
regarded as the main one.’ as my magazine is called ‘DANK’ I decided to call my contents page ‘IN’DANK’
instead of the usual ‘contents page’ because a contents page tells you what’s in the magazine, therefore
with my magazine, its telling the reader what is in Dank… so that is the inspiration for the name of my
contents page.
S I decided to put the date of the magazine and the website of my magazine by the title it has a slight
contrast with the sizes of the text. People also read from the left to the right so it is good they know what
date this magazine is incase they’ve read it before.

Forms and Conventions of My Article
S Photo:
S The main image on the article is usually of the artist. In my
article it is Terence BadBoyRinsa as the main image. He
is covering a whole page on a two page spread. He is in
front of a bright blue background to make him stand out. I
have also faded out an image of a skyline and put it
behind my text.
S The image of Terence BadBoyRinsa is an image of him
receiving a reward at the Movie Awards for ‘Best
Soundtrack’. I wanted the photo to show the high points
in his life rather than the low points. As the article is a
biographic feature I wanted to show a positive
achievement in Terence’s life.

S Title of the Page:
S For the colours of my title, I decided to change
the colour scheme I used in my front cover and
contents page. This is because I wanted to
brighten the page up with the blue ‘movie awards
background’. The colours of a darker shade of
turquoise and a brighter shade of purple went
better with the blue background.
S I do not use Terence’s real name (Babarinsa)
because he is known more for his nickname
‘Terence BadBoyRinsa’.

S Article:
S The article is split into three columns to
ensure its easier for the reader to read it. It
is also easier to crate bold quotes for the
reader to see. If its not in a column it
would just be a bold line of text that
wouldn’t stand out to the reader.
S The article being in columns makes it
easier to have paragraphs and this means
the article is easier to read for the reader.

Forms
S Forms:
S The colour scheme of my magazine is Blue, Black, Grey and white. Blue and
white are typically white sophisticated colours. Black and Grey give the
magazine that gloomy/rough effect that a lot of RnB artists have had in there
rise to the top.
S I have used images that have all been taken by myself. Magazines are printed
so I have not used animations or video clips as they are not suitable.
S In my article I decided to use two different colours for the title add a brightness
to the page. I have also chosen fonts that are bold to ensure they are clear to
the reader.

Challenging Conventions
S I haven’t challenged conventions because the aim of an
RnB article is for it to be stylish, slick and cool. By following
the conventions it allows me to develop a magazine like
that. It gives me a guide line to create a slick magazine
which is what you want for an RnB magazine. All of the RnB
artists are cool and slick, and it’s the name for a magazine.
Everything has to align together to create a slick magazine.

Forms and conventions finished

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