This document summarizes how the media product uses and develops conventions of real magazines. It discusses using a pink and black color scheme on the masthead to make it eye-catching. Professional photos were taken in a studio to look like real magazines. Techniques like pull quotes and cover lines were used to engage readers. A consistent sans-serif font and house style made the magazine look professional. The double page spread followed conventions like taking up a full page with a photo and columns of text. The images, layout, and techniques develop magazine conventions to create a realistic looking media product.

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

2. My masthead is pink and black, it is outline with a pink stroke effect,
this highlights the black text and makes my masthead eye catching.
Although the model is covering the title, viewers will still know what
it says at is will be a well established magazine and just by the colour
scheme, and the text people will recognise it. The text is all in capital
letter as this is what most magazines do and it makes it stand out
more and also makes it more effective. The text used is sans serif, this
is easy to read and looks more professional, most magazines use sans
serif text so their magazine stands out to the viewers

3. The colour scheme I have used is to represent a pop
magazine, the colour pink is vibrant and stands out to the
viewers and the colours white and black are neutral colours
therefore they go very well with the colour pink. Other pop
magazines such as top of the pops use this same colour
scheme as it is very appealing to the eye. The colour also goes
with my images as they are of a girl wearing pink lipstick and a
purple top, the front cover image fits in well with the colour
scheme. I haven’t used more than 3 colours and this is
because of there is more than 3 colours used the magazine
can look over the top and tacky. Professional magazines only
use 3 colours at the most for their colour scheme

4. I have used techniques such as pull quotes,
this makes the reader want to read the
double page spread as my pull quotes are
intriguing. I have used cover lines to show
the reader what is actually in the
magazine and to pull the audience in. The
model credit is to show viewers who my
double page is going to be about, it also
draws the readers attention if they like the
model. I have had professional pictures
taken in a professional environment, this
makes it look like a real magazine as the
images are similar. A clear house style has
been used throughout the magazine to
show the pop genre of my magazine, this
is colors such as pink and black. The text
used is a sans serif text, this ensures that
my magazine doesn't look unprofessional.
Another technique used was line spacing, I
made sure the spaces between the texts
were small so it looks like magazine text.

5. The contents page uses page numbers so
you know what is on each page of the
magazine, this is done by a page number
being put next to each title on the page. I
have taken professional pictures of
different people to show the range in the
magazine and again to show the pop
genre, the quality of the images shows
real media product qualities. I have used
a column to make the contents page look
neat and well set out in the style of real
media products. Again the house style is
also consistent throughout this page, this
makes it look professional. My contents
page is very similar to Q’s layout and this
makes it look like a professional
magazine.

6. I really used my inspiration in the double page spread using things such as one whole
page being taken up by one picture, also the other page being taken up by columns of
text which makes it look formal, neat and well set out. The title on this page is quite
small but it is effective as the main body of the text takes up the whole page and the
title is just the name of the model. A drop capital is used to make it look in the form of
an article. On my double page spread I used the format of an interview so I used
questions, I made it visible that it was an interview and not a flowing article by putting
each question in a different text box so it looked like a different paragraph. I also used
a pull quote which was large to make the reader want to read on.

7. I used a sans serif font throughout my magazine because it looks more
professional and magazines such as Q use the same type of font. I used the
font ‘Impact’ on Photoshop as that was what I thought looked most
professional and most like a magazine text. I have used more eye catching
fonts on my front cover so it stands out to the viewers. On my double page
spread I have done my article in the form of an interview, the interview is
about Freya Buckley who is the main star of my magazine, a lot of magazines
such as ‘kerrang’ have the same kind of layout, this is so it makes it clear to
the audience that it is an interview. The pull quotes stand out and pull the
reader in

8. The images taken were in a photography studio, this makes them look
professional and similar to real media products, they are of models who look like
they are in a pop band or are in the pop industry and this helps with the genre of
my magazine. The models are all up to date with their fashion and this also makes
them look like they are professional magazine photographs. On my front cover I
have used a simple image of the main model so people know what is to come in
the double page, she is wearing pinks and purples so it goes with my colour
scheme. The contents page images are smaller and are just to tell the readers
what is in the other pages. My double page spread image is a close up of the
same model that is on my front cover, I used my inspiration from Q magazine in
this image as they use a lot of close ups in their double page articles, I have put
this image into black and white so it looks more effective and so it looks retro.