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

Most of my cover lines are in the left third which again is a convention that most real magazines follow, as when the magazines are lined up on the shelf the reader will still be able to read the most important cover lines that will grab their attention and persuade them to then buy the magazine.

Though I didn’t choose to have a slogan as I didn’t think it would be important to my target audience. I still put the web address under the mast head which some magazines do but most put it at the bottom because their slogan is in that position. The date is traditionally Placed where I have put it right third under the mast head, I put it here as it is conventional and practical.

A barcode is an important feature on a magazine as it carries information about the magazine as well as allowing a costumer to buy it. I unconventionally (though some magazines do present barcodes in different ways) shaped mine to look like a tattoo as it presented it in an interesting and an attractive way.

My image is in a conventional place for a mid-close up shot, in the centre so it is the first thing that the reader sees and can gage what genre of magazine it is and what age it’s aimed at.

I put these bottom cover lines in as I thought it could be conventional to my magazine to answer questions that people had sent in each week and display them along the bottom. Though bottom cover line aren’t that common in magazines as they normally have a skyline.

My mast head is in the top 3rd which is common of a magazine cover, and the reader expects this. So that when the magazines are displayed on a shelf they would still be able to read the mast head and identify their magazine.

Conventionally in most ‘lifestyle’ or ‘gossip’ and many more magazines they use buzz words such as “win” or “free”. This is why I have used one here it attracts the reader and invites them to read your magazine and find out how they can win something.

The colour scheme I used for my magazine cover was of four different colours which is unconventional of a magazine, though I thought it plausible as all my colours where of a similar shade and worked well against each other.