The document discusses how the magazine cover page challenges conventions of real magazines. It uses balanced layout with heavy and light elements distributed evenly. The model makes eye contact to grab attention. Bold text emphasizes headlines. The contents page does not follow the typical left-to-right eye movement pattern. White space is used positively to make images stand out. Layers and columns add depth. Iconography represents celebrities' lives.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product? The strap line makes the audience remember the magazine, as every time pulse is published will be the same strap line. Again making the audience remember the magazine. This is a typical magazine convention. The name of the magazine ‘Pulse’. It has Many connotations for example pulse referencing music due to the beat. Also It targets my target group due to being Short and snappy. This is making the Magazine easier to remember. The model has eye contact with the reader so creating effect. This is grabbing the audience attention and pulling them in to read the magazine. The writing has balance as they are all finish at the same point right along. This is making the magazine look for neat . Also the text is fit around the image making it look more professional. The text is working with the image than working against it. The whole magazine has unity as the page is not just randomly place. All the element go together well as I have followed the house style though out the cover page.

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product? Balanced as weight is defined as the Image is heavy and so the text at the top so the mass is evenly out. The heavy Purple balances with the light grey Then Heaviness of the contents balances the page. Again this is following the house style The content page has unity as all the design has agreement and made to look like they belong together. They are not randomly placedso therefore creating unity though out the magazine. You can this this magazine belongs together. The text has emphasis as the text is bold and thin. The content is there to prove a point to the structure of the page with the bold, thick and dark text. I have challenged Gutenberg diagram Due to the content page not going from Left to right. This normal describes a general pattern the eyes movement. I Challenged this due to so much going on In the right half of the page. The eyes are Drawn straight to the ‘exclusive on page 30’ this is making the reader wanting to Know more as nothing is given away. The content page has the rule of thirds. The model is down the left hand side of the contents page so this is a typical magazine convention. I challenged the convection as it not the typical way of using the rule of thirds. Active space as it is creating balanced unequal elements. I have left the corner empty as it has created more effect.

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product? This double page spread has depth due to the layers I have used. The columns I have used has typical convention that the magazine used. Your eyes natural flow down the page. Bold article title To emphasis the Text also it contrast The background. The whole of the Magazine has unity due to the same Colours though-out. Again following the House style The article I have wrote about a lot of celebrity themselves and re-lating it to there lives. This is using the typical media convention of iconographic. The double page spread has active space there is has no predictable pattern. The white space has apositive elementadding to the effect of the images as it makes the images stand out. I have used again the principle of thirds, i have divided the page so the article is the typical convention. I have not wrote much on the right side so therefore it doesn’t put off the reader by the amount of writing there. The left hand page is a short bit of article making the reader want to read on

4. How does your media product represent particular social groups? Some groups that I think are represented through my magazine is the more the different range of music. I hope I target the group intended on targeting. The music in my magazine is offered to a range of different social groups from emo, indie and R’n’B. It is shown through the clothes the model is wearing and the type of music in the magazine

5. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Q magazine is product monthly by Bauer Media Group. My magazine will benefit as they Are displayed in the eye contact area so therefore more people will see my magazine. There business is built on millions of personal relationships with engaged readers. They connect audiences with compelling content, whenever, wherever, and however they want. There unique insight allows us to work closely with there customers to develop innovative solutions that create a difference to their business and to our magazine.

6. Who would be the audience for your media product?

7. How did you attract / address your audience?

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

9. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?