My magazine uses and develops conventions from real media products like Vibe magazine. Specifically, it uses a top menu with artist names, a side barcode for phone scans, and cover lines like Vibe. However, it also challenges conventions by having a busier, less placed background that links more to R&B music. While Vibe keeps a simple, clean layout, my magazine aims to be more visually interesting for its target audience.

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

2. Using forms and
conventions of real media
products

3. Vibe
My Music magazine

4. My magazine
Vibe
I used the idea of a sticker, as this also seems to be a convention throughout magazines, I also put my
model in front on the title, and this gives the impression that people will already know the name of the
magazine. I also took the idea of the menu as it makes the cover look busier and more interesting and lets
the audience know there is a lot in the magazine to do with stars, so they will want to buy it.

5. My magazine
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Pose
Costume
‘Features’
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Vibe
Name of page in big writing
‘CONTENTS’
Same style font (italics) for
features
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Included photo credit,
took the idea from this
magazine.

6.  Menu at top of
magazine
 Side menu with
small cover lines
 ‘sticker’ effect with
story in
 Bar code on its
 Model covering title
 Main models name in
the biggest font.

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Photography credit
Contents page down the left hand side
Image on right
Strong powerful pose looking smart

8. Busy
background,
less placed,
more urban
which links
to R&B
Same type of font used and size.
Side
menu
used

9. Developing forms and
conventions of real media
products

10.  Font sizes are different, I’ve made the regulars and features bigger and more eyecatching to the regulars of the magazine

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Quotation from the interview of the main model
Busy background idea, looks less placed compared to a plain background
Top menu involving starts names
Side barcode and scan for phones, more updated
Used one of the cover lines

12.  Little
introduction
at the
beginning
Used
columns,
but in a
different
layout/style

13. Challenging forms and
conventions of real media
products

14. Billboard’s content page is very busy, with multiple images on, on a clean white
background, there is also a range of colours down the left hand side, I didn’t use
this because I don’t think it looks very R&B, most Vibe magazines are quite
simple, with a strong powerful image on it, and it isn’t very busy, you can see
exactly what is going on, which is why mine is the way it is.

15. o Close up used on the left, and I used a medium-long shot
o Clean white background, looks less urban and more placed onto a white
screen
o Not as busy as my magazine, less cover lines

16. • Very simple, not very much cover lines, you don’t know much about that
magazine
• Very bright background, looks quite childish, wouldn’t attract my target
audience
• Image in black and white where as my image the bricks are in black and white
so there isn’t as much colour, but my model is in colour which makes her
stand out more.

17. Many images in the same
outfit used. Outfit is very
related to pop
Text spread over two
pages, looks like a lot of
text, maybe too much, I
don’t think my target
audience could be
bothered to read that
much
Very natural image,
audience can
connect with her