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

2. FONT (VIBE AND XXL MAGAZINE)
The font used in VIBE and XXL is actually quite
simple. There aren’t really any drop shadows or
any other kind of effects used. At first, I decided to
do the same but I then felt my target audience
made it necessary for me to challenge the
conventions. This is due to the fact that my
magazine also consists of the grime genre

3. MASTHEADS
As you can see, I once again decided to challenge the conventions. I
did so by having my cover star behind the masthead rather than
infront of it and having a masthead that doesn’t take up as much
space. I did this solely for the purpose of making my magazine look
unique, by making it look very distinctive to your everyday
magazine, I believe it makes it more appealing

4. PHOTOGRAPHY
Front covers usually contain close-ups/medium close-ups. I
decided to follow this convention and use the medium close-up.
This type of close-up has my model looking directly at the
audience which is a commonly used method of engaging the
reader.

5. LAYOUT
This contents page is not as packed as others might be. As you
can see, only specific page numbers are listed and only two
images are used. This is to highlight areas of the magazine
which are most likely to catch the readers eye.

6. DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD
It is a common convention to use 2 doublepage spreads for the cover stars story. I also
followed conventions by having half of one
page be an image of the cover star whilst the
rest remain as text

7. COLOUR SCHEME
Another convention I decided to follow is the three-way
colour scheme. Less colours make the page look less
interesting, whilst more make it look unprofessional. This
brought me to the decision of using 3 colours