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

MastheadThe masthead is the largest of all the text on the front cover. It is just one word long and relates to the genre of the magazine because ‘AIM’ stands for ‘All Indie Music’.

Main ImageThe artist is posing to the side with an open mouth, this conveys both attitude with body language but playfulness too with facial expressions too. This would put the reader at ease and believe that the artist is a friendly and welcoming person but can also have a serious side as well. The artist shows direct address in the main image, this helps to connect to the reader of the magazine.

Barcode

Issue Number, Price and Date – situated to the side of the Masthead can also be underneath the barcode.

CoverlinesCovelines are usually one or two lines long. They give the target audience an insight into what will feature in this issue of the magazine and is determined to make the target audience buy the magazine in the least amount of words possible.

Positioning statementPositioned below the masthead gives the readers an idea of what the magazine is offering ‘Outstanding Music’ this connotes to the reader that the content of this magazine is exceptional and cannot be matched by any other magazine.

Colour SchemeThe colour scheme is constant and flows throughout the front cover, the Main Headline anchors in with the Masthead and Cover lines because they are the same colour red and are the most important.

Main HeadlineThe main headline is what anchors the background image to the article inside the magazine. It is usually one word and is made bold and bright to attract the readers attention.

ContentsThe word contents is situated at the top of the page to the left of the title of the music magazine. It is in black so follows the same colour scheme for that of the front cover.

Main ImagesUsually on a contents page there is one main image and a lot of other smaller images. But for my contents page I decided to make each of the images the same size. Each of the images anchor to the texts for each of the articles.

Page numbersThe page numbers on the pictures show the reader where to look in the magazine for the specific article they want to read and also where to find the written content in the columns on the contents page.

Colour schemeA constant scheme of red, black and white follows the front covers choice of colour too

Page numbersPage numbers are located next to each of the written article titles to show the reader where to find them in the magazine.

A smaller image of the magazines Title at the top of the page

This follows the conventions as the content is separated into two different columns of Feature and Regular content. Regular content being that it appears in every issue of the magazine that is published, e.g. Reviews and Competitions

Title The title ‘Victory for V Festival’ is located at the top of the Double page spread article and covers the whole top of the page from left to right. It is catchy and bold and is eye catching to the reader

StandfirstThe standfirst is located at the bottom of the article and gives the reader additional information about what the article will include.

BylineThe byline is always located under the standfirst and this tells the reader who the article was written by and who the images were taken by.

Page numberAt the bottom of the page, indicates to the reader what page the article is on and that it also matches to that of the number on the contents page.

Magazine titleThe smaller image of the magazines title is at the bottom of the page with the page number and issue date to show the reader what magazine they are reading and what issue and month it is

Title and Main Image bleed across the page.

Page numberAt the bottom of the page, indicates to the reader what page the article is on and that it also matches to that of the number on the contents page.

Drop capitalsDrop capitals are used in each of the paragraphs in my article. They show the reader where to begin reading. The ‘C’ is the first drop capital, it is at the beginning of the first paragraph and is 5 lines deep.

Magazine titleThe smaller image of the magazines title is at the bottom of the page with the page number and issue date to show the reader what magazine they are reading and what issue and month it is

Main imageThis image is the main one on the article because its the largest out of all the other images

Body TextThe body text is 10 pt

TextText is kept in three columns on each page of the article

TextText is kept in three columns

Smaller imagesSmaller images are used in the article to break up the text.

Smaller images