1. Question 1: In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge forms or
conventions of real media products?

2. This was our final produced
magazine double page spread. After
much debate we decided that the
best magazine it could be published
in is ‘Radio Times’. This was because
we believed our target audience of
parents who we thought would be
most likely to watch the
documentary may also be avid
readers of the ‘Radio Times’. We
used very similar conventions that
Radio Times use to publish there
magazine double page spreads. The
most common feature we followed
of the Radio Times, is the simplicity
of the layout as it is for a more
sophisticated reader who are
intelligent and are more concerned
with the words on the page rather
than the images and the range of
colours.

3. Visually appealing image, that instantly interests the reader into wanting
the read the article. It takes up a huge proportion of the double page
spread. Our image is particularly effective as the image of a child playing Magazine articles are always commonly
instantly will interest an adult reader. written in columns, so to give our magazine
Drop Cap used at the start of an article. a more professional look we chose to stick
Commonly used convention in the to this convention that Radio Times and the
Radio Times at the start of an article. majority of other magazines use.
Makes our Article look more
professional.
A date, time and channel of
when the documentary is on.
This is an important feature of
a magazine article as it is vital
the reader knows when the
documentary was on.
Therefore we used this feature
that the Radio Times used as it
simply and clearly laid out on
the magazine spread.
A side image which relates to the
article is another commonly used
convention in the magazine of
Radio Times. It makes the page
look more interesting to the
reader and gives it a more
professional touch.
A pull out quote again is something the Radio
Times commonly uses in their articles that is why
we chose to use it as well. We pulled out a quote
A visually appealing title is again an important factor
which is particularly interesting to the target
but it’s the fact that the title is kept so simple that
audience of the reader. It is important that the
will act as visually appealing to a more intelligent
pull out quote is relevant as the reader is more
reader.
likely to read that before the actual article.