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

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

2. Front Cover
The layout for the magazine is conventional because the model is facing the camera. I didn’t want the
model in the same pose and the one of the left because that wasn’t the ‘look’ I was going for. I wanted
it to be more subtle. The writing is on either side like a conventional magazine, with the same look for
the font. The masthead on the ‘SPIN’ is very conventional because it is on the top left. Whereas, for my
magazine I have placed the masthead in the middle. It is still partly conventional because the masthead
is at the top.

3. Masthead
It is very conventional to place the masthead here. The
reason why this is done is because when the magazines
are stacked in shelf’s, the masthead is the part that you
usually see.
My masthead is placed across the whole top of
the magazine, with ‘THE’ at a right angle to the
rest. I added ‘THE’ because the masthead
looked a bit bare without it, it also sounds
better.
I did place the masthead in the conventional way
to start off with but I decided not to because it
didn’t fit right. I also wanted the ‘t’ in ‘Pitch.’ to
be in the middle because the ‘t’ represents the
cross and that is significant because it’s a
Christian music magazine.

4. In this magazine the main cover story is
placed at the top right hand corner. It is
only slightly bigger than the other
texts. It is conventional to have the
cover story font to be bigger than the
other sub-story fonts, but not as big as
the masthead.
I didn’t place the masthead in the
same place as the other magazine. The
reason why is because I think it is more
conventional to have the main cover
story to be at the bottom in the
middle. This worked a lot better with
the image that was on my front cover
as well.

5. I liked the way that the font I took on the different colours of the
was in different colours and font for the sub-stories. This fitted in
sizes. with the theme colours of my
magazine.

6. Contents page

7. I really liked the layout of the ‘mixmag magazine. So I
placed this image of their contents page over a blank
document and placed boxes over, so I knew exactly where
to place everything.

8. I also placed the
numbers on the
left hand side
which is very
conventional.
I used the
same layout of
having the
larger text in a
I have also different
kept to the colour as the
four categories.
categories.
For all the stories
that are in the
contents page,
there are
subheadings in bold
and further
information in
normal font. This is
also quite
conventional.

9. I decided to put the
masthead at the top of
the page to make it all
link it.
I put the title
‘contents’ in the
same place.
However, I chose to
not put it inside a
box because it
didn’t look right as
my theme colours
were black and blue.
I also placed a little
picture of the front
cover of the magazine

10. All the images
on the
contents
page are in
the same
place.
I also placed
the page
numbers on
the pictures
which
correspond
to the story
that the
picture is
from.

11. Double page spread

12. The pictures are
both on the left
hand side like a
normal
conventional
magazine.
The pictures are in different positions because the
picture of the left looks a little bit sexual and this
isn't the look I wanted for my magazine. So I
decided to go for someone playing the guitar which
is partly what the story is about.

13. I liked the contrast between the script
text and the bold, so I included this in
my double page spread. Also, the word
‘inspiration’ looks good being in a script
font.
This is also on my
magazine and
I really liked the big also works well
text in grey behind with my colour
the picture, so I used theme.
it on my magazine.
However, I wanted a
name, so I had to do
the same thing but
using a four letter
word.