question 1 all about my media product

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

2. Challenging
ConventionsTo start off with most, almost all, the images I have taken and
used in my magazine over all pages do not have the eye to
camera contact you would usually expect.
My images are all taken with the model either with her eyes
closed of looking in a completely different direction. This
definitely challenged conventions as almost every magazine
front cover especially has the model looking directly into
camera. I also think that the style of my front cover is
challenging. The large print background of roses and the
exaggerated look is challenging conventions as there was very
little if any magazines that I saw that did this, in this way. I did
it to make it different to other best sellers. I chose to develop
things like this about my magazine so it represented my genre
better and more clearly.
I also think the masthead is intriguing and links well to the
strapline “Live Free’

3. Developed Conventions
I also added the lace banner. This was something else I hadn’t seen on any
magazines. So this also developed conventions as it was recognisably Vintage.
As you can see, I have also
developed conventions by
developing the general pull quotes
and headlines you would see on a
double page spread (dps). These
particular elements are quite large
and fill up the left and right side of
my magazine dps.
This image of my contents
page showed the amount of
white space I had left at the
top of my page. I did this to
show of the repeated use of
the flowered background.
The page worked really well
with this background. This
again is something I have
developed as it is not
something that is
recognisably a conventional
form of real media products –
music magazines.

4. Used Conventions
This is the features
menu on my
contents page.
This, I think, is a
very common
convention as
every magazine
has a page with a
features list, mine
is slightly different
as it is all down
one side but it
works well. For
distributors, it
provides a shelf
view.
Following conventions: my
headline takes up 1/6th of the front
page. However, I also developed
conventions by using a shade/
pattern effect with my choice of
font. I believe this is successful.
My TA like this look and say this
would encourage them to buy the
magazine. It also reflects the genre
‘nostalgia’ very well.

5. Successful conventions
 Columns on my DPS
 Drop capitals
 Pull quote on the DPS
 Institutional features: website/ QR code

6. Self critique
 I would change the following if I repeated this task:
 The font choices for the features on the front cover
 The content on the contents.
 A late teen TA tends to like quite busy pages and it may
help institutions to sell this magazine more easily if it
appeared to have a greater content.