The document summarizes how the media product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines for young audiences. It uses typical magazine layouts like a 3-column format and masthead. Images include a celebrity on the cover and photos with cutouts running around text. Fonts, colors, and liberal use of bleeding text and images make the magazine playful. Quotes are featured prominently among articles to encourage reading. Consistent branding elements like fonts and layout create cohesion. The magazine challenges conventions by misspelling "Candy" on the masthead.

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

3. The masthead for my magazine is big and bold in comparison to
the rest of the text. This is typical of other magazines for this
genre. The misspelling of 'Candy' with an 'i' instead of a 'y'
makes it playful and rebels against the correct spelling.

4. For my main photo I used a
photo of a young pop singer
who features in the magazine
along with other commercial,
mainstream pop acts. The use
of a featuring celebrity for the
main photo is typical of most
music magazines as well as
pop music magazines. The
photo I used was medium
close-up with the young girl
smiling. I used this image
because it communicates
connotations of fun, lively, girly
and innocent.

5. On the front cover of my
magazine, I used a range of fonts
that are all sans serif to make it
informal and therefore appropriate
for the target audience. The main
font that I used for the coverlines
and straplines is Eras Bold ITC. I
used this font because it is bold
and simple yet informal and playful
because of it being italic, it's also
easy to read making it suitable for
the age range.

6. I included a freebie on my
front cover, this is to
encourage my audience to
buy my product and gives the
magazine added value. I
positioned it in the top, right
corner of the front cover with
a yellow background so that it
was noticeable for the reader.

7. I used a skyline at the top of my front cover that says: “Your
fortnightly glossy music mag!” this addresses the reader by
interacting with the reader using „Your‟ and the use of „Glossy‟
and the use of slang: „mag‟ makes it formal and appropriate for
the age group.
I also put text across the bottom of the page which I used to
show what other features will be included in the magazine. This
makes the reader interested and encourages them to buy it.

8. Throughout my front
cover and throughout my
magazine as a whole, I
used a lot of bleeding
with text and images.
This makes the
magazine playful and
gives fun, youthful and
lively connotations.

10. For my magazine I used a 3
column lay out. I laid all the
feature information on the left
hand column and filled the
other columns with other
features. I listed all the pages
down one column so that it is
clear and easily readable for
the audience. I put the page
numbers in a pink star that
allowed it to bullet point the text
and to make it fun and playful.

11. At the top of each column I put a
heading for the feature in that
column. For these headings I
used a range of different fonts
that are appropriate for the
feature. For example, for the
word „celebrity‟ I used a
PopstarAutograph font to play on
the idea of it being a celebrity
autograph and make it fun, lively
and appropriate for the reader.

12. I put pink outlines around images
to make them stand out and also
put them on a slant to make it
seem disorganised and relaxed
making it suitable for my target
audience of young girls.
I put lots of images and lots of
pieces of text on the page and
made them all very close
together, making it seem very
„jam-packed‟ and fun and
interesting for the reader.

14. On my double page spread I used a 3 column layout that I also used on my
contents page. Keeping the same amount of columns throughout is a
convention followed by all magazines as well as pop music magazines.
Because of this I followed this convention and used in my product.

15. I took quotes from the text and
made them bigger and stand out
amongst the rest of the text.
These quotes among the text
makes it informal and if the
reader just glances at the page
then their eye get caught on
these quotes and it encourages
them to read the article.
The use of these quotes among the text is similar to
other conventions used in magazines and specifically
pop magazines as it makes it seem playful and very
“easygoing”.

16. As well as putting quotes
among the text, I also put a
picture and made the text run
around it. This makes it very
“jam-packed” and gives
informal, playful, lively and fun
connotations. Many pop
magazines use this feature in
their articles as it is suitable for
an audience of young girls.

17. On the right hand column I
featured a quiz on the celebrity
that I wrote the article about. I
used a yellow background for
it so that it clearly stood out on
the page and stood out as a
separate feature from the rest
of the article. I created the look
of it being a strip across the
page by having it all on a slight
slant. This made it look
disordered and very informal
with lots on connotations
(playful, lively, bubbly, fun) that
are suitable for my target
audience.

18. Similarly to my front cover and
my contents page, I also used
bleeding on my double page
spread. I layered up text and
pictures and made text boxes
bleed over onto others. I did this
on the quiz column as I made it
so that the title of the quiz bled
over the text box with the
questions in and then made that
bleed over a box containing a
photo. This use of lots of
bleeding made it very “jam-
packed” and disorganised which
is what I aimed for in order to
attract my target audience.

19. Throughout my magazine I kept certain themes and features. This allows
the magazine to have a certain sense of layout and makes it recognisable
to the audience that it is Candi magazine and gives it an individual theme
rather than just being a mixture of lots of different products.
I used bleeding throughout with text and images and used coloured
text boxes for it so that it is easily readable for the audience and so
that it stands out.
I used the same range of fonts
throughout my magazine and
whenever I wrote the magazines
name, Candi, I used the same
font as what I used for the
masthead.

20. I kept the same 3
column layout
throughout my
magazine, this allowed
me to be able to keep
the same structure for
the content all through
my product.
I stuck to the same colour
scheme throughout and used
a range of pink and yellow
more than any other colour.
These colours give
girly, young and fun
connotations that attract my
target audience.