Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For my media product of a music magazine I used the conventions of ‘VIBE’ magazine as a model. The first key convention I took from ‘VIBE’ magazine to use for my own magazine was having the masthead at the top of the magazine front cover and the artist over the top of some of the masthead (see picture 1) as this is effective to the audience, can be remembered and highlights the importance of the artist. Another convention that I used from this magazine is using the names of the artists that are featured in the magazine at the top of the masthead in a smaller font size. A ‘VIBE’ convention that is used is that they take either a close-up shot, medium close-up shot and a medium shot for their front cover (see picture 1). Out of all of these shots I used a medium shot as this showed of more the costume of the central figure (see picture 2). For the contents page I used the forms that ‘VIBE’ magazine used so this means, I utilised the ‘contents’ title (see both the real media product 3 & my own product picture 4) it was a modern take on what is stereotypical contents title would be. Another convention that I took from the magazine is the first letter of the magazine in big in the background and that artist slightly overlapping it (see picture 5). For my double page spread the convention that I used was the large image of the artist on one side of the page, however what I decided to different is instead of having different images of the artist at the top in black and white (see picture 6) I put her name at the top with a quote next to it (see picture 7).
I followed most of the general key conventions, however there were a few things that challenge and develop these conventions. The first convention I challenged was the central figure on the front cover, stereotypically they always use a male figure (see picture 8) on the front yet used a female. I did this to show that women (see picture 2) can be just as powerful and attract the target audience to as well as a male. Another form that I decided to modify is the use of just one quote. I took this and did 3 instead as I thought it will draw the reader in immediately to the article.
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