In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?BY YASEMIN SEHRI

FRONT COVER

BARCODE

DATELINE

MAIN IMAGE

PUFF

BUZZ WORDS

MASTHEAD

COVER LINES

STRAP LINE

My music magazine develops forms and conventions of media products as the front cover includes the following; masthead, barcode, dateline, puffs, main image, buzz words, cover lines. All of these are techniques used in magazine making to attract potential customers to the magazine, by using these on my magazine I am developing the forms and conventions of media products as I am sticking with the the norms. Although I also used some things that challenge the forms and conventions of typical magazines like a tagline, as i thought this could be like a slogan for my magazine and it also helps tie in the house style with the contrast of white and yellow font.The front cover has a very significant house style with the colour palette of pops of yellow over the basic black and white font, this helps signify how fresh this magazine is as as the whole idea of it is to showcase new and upcoming artists. Also the models in the main image are both young and fresh faced which ties in this same idea of new artists.

HOW MY FRONT COVER DEVELOPS AND CHALLENGES FORMS OF CONVENTIONS OF MEDIA PRODUCTS..

CONTENTS PAGE

HEADINGDATELINEMAIN IMAGE

SMALLER IMAGES

DIRECTADDRESS

COVER LINES

PUFF

HOUSE - STYLE

HOW MY CONTENTS PAGE DEVELOPS AND CHALLENGES TYPICAL FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF MEDIA

PRODUCTS..My music magazine develops forms and conventions of media products as the

contents page includes the following; heading, main image, house-style, dateline, direct address. The main image if the same 2 boys from the front cover

which shows continuity and also highlights them as artists more, the house - style is also continued onto the contents page by using the same colour palette

as the front cover used, this is very typical of magazines as it gives the magazine a sense of ownership and a type. The direct address comes from not only the

text ‘do YOU’ which helps to draw the readers attention but also from the image as the boy in front is making direct eye contact with the camera. Although my

magazine also challenges typical forms and conventions of media products as I used smaller images rather than just 1 image.

DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD

a house style (different colour palettes), direct address. byline, box-out, pull quote, main image, smaller images, blend, heading, subheading, logo, dateline, page numbers, 3 columns

HEADINGSUBHEADING

PULL QUOTE

S

MAIN IMAGE

PICTURE AND TEXT BLEEDS

OVER PAGE

3 COLLUMNS

PAGE NO.S

HOUSE STYLE- DIFFERENT COLOUR PALETTE

HOW MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD DEVELOPS AND CHALLENGES TYPICAL FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF MEDIA PRODUCTS..

My music magazine develops forms and conventions of media products as the double page spread includes the following; pull quotes, a main image, blend, heading, subheading, dateline, page numbers and 3 columns. The 3 columns makes the double page convention in terms of typical music magazines double page spreads, and the pull-quotes also do this, the pull quotes as they are in the centre of the page with the font being another colour helps them pop out of the page and draw the readers attention to them first. The main image is of a band ‘The 1975’ that I took when I went to one of their gigs earlier this year, this picture really has a lot of atmosphere to it , and the light pink/purple tones of colour have a really warm effect to them, that adds a lot to the page. Although my double page spread also defied the typical forms and conventions of media products as not only did I let my image bleed over the A3 pages I also let the title and the pull quotes bleed as I quite liked the idea of the double page spread looking a bit like a poster.