The author's media product uses conventions from real magazines by including a white background, pink and black color scheme, and short cover lines on the left side of the cover page. However, it also challenges conventions by overlapping text in the masthead like cinema text and including only two photos on the cover. The contents page includes columns, a national dotted font, and alternating black and pink text for consistency with the cover. Double page spreads use pink boxes, the national dotted font, and a mix of image sizes to draw attention.
1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
media products?
By Gaby Skingle
2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
In my magazine I have tried to stick to a conventional magazine style as they have
been successful and are big sellers. This being said however I did want to put a twist
in the way I designed my magazine to have a unique selling point. I chose a white
background as with other magazines white showed expensiveness and a more classy
theme. I chose the theme black and pink as it still looks professional and upmarket.
I chose pink to stand out and black as it is a statement colour. For my masthead I
decided to incorporate my colour theme to it and overlap text so it looks like text at
the cinema and on Broadway. I also chose pink as it is a feminine colour and my
magazine is aimed at teenage girls. For my front cover I used a large mid shot as
many other magazines I have seen have large mid shot images. On my cover my
cover lines are both black and pink to match my colour scheme but are also short
and simple like many best selling magazines. I have not included a puff or a plug as I
think it lowers the tone of a magazine. All of my cover lines are located on the left
side of the page as typically that is where its placed on many magazines. On the
cover I have included the date, price and barcode like most magazines. For my
masthead I have layered the same text over each other but in two different colours.
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
For my contents page I have included columns on the left and right with a margin
between for images. I have used the same colour scheme in my contents page as
I have on my front cover. I chose a national dotted font as I wanted it to look like
a olden day cinema like my masthead. So I chose to so this for the title of my
contents page but also my sub headings. I chose to write each page and its
contents in either black or pink. I also wrote a editors note as most top rated
magazines have them. I chose these two photos and used Photoshop on them so
there was no background to make it look more professional and look like it flows.
I also chose these specific images as they look natural and not awkward. I
included a plug to advertise her new album and have a included a photo of this. I
have included an editors note because most upmarket magazines do. I have used
my editors note to also advertise a upcoming festival.
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
I chose a white background for my double paged spread as that is the
background I had used throughout. I used pink boxes with the national
dotted font for sub headings. I chose to do this as I did this in my contents
page and wanted to link the two. I also did the heading and a pink box with
page numbers over both the pages to show they are together and continue
from one another. I chose one black and white image and made it bigger
then the other ones to make it stand out this was my lead image. I Chose
two smaller images and put them in white boxes to make them look like
olden day photographs. I also used pink for my questions as it is part of my
colour scheme and so you can clearly distinguish between the question and
answers like many other magazines I have seen.
