In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions

of real media products.

Magazine Front Cover

Research

Just like the research for the theatrical poster this part of the process had a massive impact on the overall design. We looked

mainly at designs of total film which is a British based magazine. Total Film provides a range of features, from full-length interviews and photo shoots with established and up-and-coming actors and

directors, to major film previews and retrospective pieces. The were a few key elements that we wanted to include in our

magazine.

There is one main model on the cover, this is usually the person featured in the interview. Using one of actresses in our film creates the link needed between the poster and the magazine.

An important requirement is that all three elements of work there is a link. Added a poster of all the cast can create that. We used a similar border for the picture.

Sticking strictly to the research used the same magazine title and text, really reinforcing authenticity

As well as having the main feature of the magazine, there needs to be other selling points and this is in all types of magazine.

Barcode just to again add authenticity

More text of additional features

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Layout

Developing the conventions and forms of real media products, as well as using our own ideas. This is evident in our layout of the magazine.

Photo shoot

• As based on a research therefore complying to the rules of established media products, we made sure that in our photo shoot that we focused on one character in the film.

• We decided to use shots that showed the top half of our models body. Which was found in a number of research examples.

Concept

Instead of trying to capture our film in the photographs we tried to show a different side of one of the main charactersof the film. Taking a different toll on a film magazine where there is the link is in the concept of the picture. The shoot was quite glamorous compared to our hard hitting drama. Within our design we tried to use the theory of binary opposites. There is a growing amount of media coverage surrounding young offenders so that was the choice of the newspapers as clothing and the actress in the film was key in a criminal offence in our film

Conclusion • As well as using real media products as the basis of our ideas like our first ancillary task we

however tried to use a unique concept to make our magazine stand out. In the media world these types of things needs to be applied as it is used a selling point as there are so many competing media products in this day and age.