The document discusses how the media product challenges conventions of real magazines. It notes that the masthead is a large, bold font like in many magazines. It includes a house theme and focuses on interesting photos with eye contact or close ups. Features like bar codes, prices and issue numbers are also included. The cover story title "Girls on the Edge" was chosen to appeal to the target audience. The cover photo incorporates different levels of the band members to mimic conventions from Q magazine in a sophisticated style.

1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR
CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
Question 1

2. Media products
Each of these magazines feature a big and bold masthead that are a bigger size than any other font, this is a design that
occurs in many magazine products. They all have a house theme running through them, for example CLASH is very
monochrome and grey/black scale, there are no bright colours. This is persistent throughout the magazine, and is something I
wanted to include in my magazine design. The photos are all interesting, with either eye contact or close ups of the model on
the front cover. All magazines have a bar code, price and issue number. I think it is important to get the right price for your
magazine as I think it reflects the quality of your magazine. Many of the media products have features that is important to
include in your magazine design and I believe that I have included all the essential features and pushed the forms of
convention media products have developed.

3. Front Cover

4. Development
MASTHEAD- I kept the concept of using a square box with the magazine name placed in the box, filling the box. I think
by using a strong, confident colour and font, makes the masthead visually arresting, as it should be in a magazine
design as it is the corporate identity . Choosing to call my magazine BEAT was a difficult decision, as Q stands for
queue the music, I wanted to make it music related yet short and memorable. Choosing the font was just as difficult as
I had to conform with the sophisticated genre that the magazine had, yet appeal to my target audience, which was both
male and female, aged 18-25 years old. I did this by choosing a simple, bold font which stood out and caught peoples
attention, by adding ‘magazine’ underneath gave it the finished look and added detail to add to the design.
COVER STORY- ‘GIRLS ON THE EDGE’ is my cover story title. I came up with the name by thinking what made the
girl band sound interesting and modern, it needed to appeal to my target audience. ‘GIRLS ON THE EDGE’ is a
memorable band name, just like SPICE GIRLS, and by adding ‘on the edge’, the girl band will seem more fun and
exciting, like they are ‘living on the edge’. I decided to keep the title in the left hand bottom corner, the same as
Q, because I think it gives the front cover a order and style. It fitted in with my cover photo and I liked the way it lined
up with the masthead as well so I decided to keep this layout.
COVER PHOTO- I conformed to Q’s cover photo when deciding what positions to put my models in, I tried a range of
styles, however I decided that this works best with Q’s sophisticated style. I like the different levels of each band
member, and I tried to incorporate archetypes with a blonde, perhaps stereotypically dumb like baby spice and the
dark head acting as posh spice with the serious face and elegant clothing. I used plain, smart clothing as I think it adds
value and class to the magazine.

5. Contents page

6. Development