This document summarizes how the media product uses and develops conventions of real magazine covers. It discusses how the magazine cover layout is similar to conventional covers but changes the picture and positioning of the person. It also uses a conventional masthead from Total Film magazine and includes posters from other small budget films to challenge conventions by not following a typical small budget story and including a sinister twist.

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

2. Magazine cover
My magazine
cover is very
similar to that
of the
conventional
cover, I liked
the layout of
this one very
much. The
only thing that
I did change
was the type
of picture and
the way the
person is
stood.
This is the layout of a This is the layout of my
conventional magazine cover magazine cover.

3. Masthead
I used the conventional
masthead from Total film.
The reason why I did this was
because this is a famous
magazine cover and is in the
type of font that would suit a
bsr magazine. Although it is well known movie mag, and
consist of world wide known films, and my bsr
film would only be shown in smaller
cinema’s, it would still have more famous
films inside along with other bsr films.

4. Although this
This is the magazine is from a
magazine cover bsr movie, the
that I focused on to magazine is nicely
create my laid out.
magazine cover.
The main problem
with this
magazine, is the
font. The font is for
a completely
different genre

5. The magazine
I also included
cover clearly
posters from other
shows my main
bsr films .
three colours.
The actor is
This challenges the making eye contact
conventions of the with the
typical bsr story viewer, whilst
because it has a holding a knife
twist with the giving a sinister
theme of the trailer look.
as it doesn’t
consist of wht
would normally
happen in the life
of my actors.