In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

1. In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real
Media Products?
Front Cover
Code Or Convention Repeated, Challenged or Developed
and Why?
Masthead Repeated
In terms of magazines like GQ, Q magazine or
magazines with single letters, most of the time
the masthead is placed in the top left hand
corner,due to the fact that people readfromleft
to right. I decided to place mine there too as I
thought it looked best on my cover. Despite it
being only in the corner, I feel like it still works
effectively in establishing a name for the
magazine.
Puff Promotion Repeated/Developed
When researching different magazines and
different genres, a puff promotion is not always
included on the cover. A prize or competition is
not always included on the cover of any
magazine. Idecidedtouse one because Ifeel like
it isa good wayto entice andaudience andmake
them want to get the magazine for a change to
win the prize or win a change to go to a concert.
Because of this fact, I have repeated the fact of
havinga puff promotionon my cover, and I have
alsodevelopeditbecause,afterdoingresearch,I
discovered that not all magazines contain puff
promotion, so I decided to include it.
Cover Image Repeated and challenged

2. After doing research I discovered that a slight
majority of RnB genre magazines contain male
cover stars, usually centred in the middle of the
page looking towards the camera, in order to
create a sense of eye contactand direct address.
The male cover starts are usually wearing
somethingstereotypical toblack culture, such as
large pieces of jewellery, bomber/leather
jackets,vesttops,hoodiesetc.usuallycontaining
dark colours in terms of the image. I also found
that extremely popular celebrities are usually
used for their star appeal (Dyer). I repeated
these features by having a male model as the
celebrityTravisScott,whoisextremelypopular.I
made my model wear a dark bomber jacket on
top of a blackhoodie.He iscentredinthe middle
of the page, suggesting that he is the centre of
attention in my magazine. Despite this, I also
challenged these conventions. My cover star is
not looking towards the camera. I made my
cover star look down, linking it to my story. My
main feature talks about Travis Scott (my cover
star) talking about how he got to the top of the
musicindustry,soI challengedthe conventionto
suggest that he is looking down from the top of
the musicindustry, to explain how he got there.
Varied Sizes/font Challenged
I used a variety of different sized fonts to make
m magazine more exciting.Iwanted to make my
main stories bigger than my story summaries.
This would make the stories pop out, from the
page, especiallywhenitcomes to the anchorage
text for the main feature. That is the biggest,
makingitseemlike the more prominentstoryfor
thisissue of the paper.I usedsmallertextforthe
social media links, as they aren’t necessarily
needed to enjoy the magazine; they’re an
addition,if the reader wants to continue online.
Date/Price/Barcode Repeated

3. Whenresearchingdifferent types of magazine, I
noticedthattheyall include abarcode, price and
date. The barcode is necessary because
otherwise the shop clerk cannot sell the item to
the customer; however it is not need to the
customer so it is always placed at the bottom.
The same can be said about the price. When
researchingdifferentcommercial magazines,the
price tends to be at the bottom of the page,
underneath the barcode,alongwithanydates or
magazine websites.

4. CONTENTS
Code or Convention Repeated, Challenged or
Developed and Why?
Supporting Images Repeated
When undergoing research, I discovered that
almost every single magazine contains
supporting images. They act as a way to give
storiesa face,andthey are effective in making a
reader want to read their magazine. I chose not
to challenge thisconventionasIfeel like this is a
good way to bring a page together. It is always
visuallyappealingtohave an image supporting a
story,as otherwise itwouldjust be justa page of
text, which is not really nice nor interesting to
read. For example, in my magazine I used an
image of Jay Z whentalkingaboutthe possibility
of winning tickets to see Jay Z.
Pulled Quote Repeated
Almost every magazine, no matter the genre or
target audience, uses pulled quotes as a way to
attract an audience to read the magazine. It’s
usually used on any page, whether it’s the front
cover, contents page, or double page spread, it
can be used anywhere to quickly summarise or
geta pointacrossfrom a story.I repeatedthisby
usingitto quicklysummarise mymainfeature on
my contents page.
Puff Promotion Challenged
The puff promotion is usually only seen on the
cover page of a magazine. I challenged this by
including it on not only the cover page, but by
going into more detail about the promotion on
the contents page. This gives more of a change
for the reader to see it and to be intrigued into
taking part in it.

5. Double-Paged Spread
Code or Convention Repeated, Challenger or
Developed and Why?
Content Challenged
Whenlookingatthe differenttypes of magazine
double page spreads, not very many of them
only have Q&As as their only content. Usually
they have a Q&A as an additional part of the
content as well as large amount of text. I
challengedthisbecause,when researching, I did
finda couple of magazine spreadsthatcontained
only Q&As and they were much easier and
better to read, as there wasn’t that much text
Pulled Quote Repeated
I useda pulledquote on my double page spread
in order to make it seem important. Having
important quotes from your story stick out will
make people want to read the story more.
Quotes like “IT WAS SOMETHING I THOUGHT
WOULD NEVER HAPPEN” catch the reader’s
attentionandmakes them want to see what the
star thought was impossible.
Columns Repeated
Columns make the text on the double page
spread much easier to read. It neatens up the
structure of the page, making it look structurally
appealing to the eye. It makes the reader
actually want to read the text, as it’s not just a
large area of text.