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

2. My media product is very similar in ways to a real media product that I have
based it on. I have set out my magazine pages in a very similar way to how
real magazines are set out and I got a lot of my ideas for my magazine from
other magazines. E.g. the type of stories to go into the magazine to fit the
genre, the type of celebrities that appear in the magazine, the type of
images used through out by what the celebrities wear and the way they
pose and also the colours and type of fonts used in the magazine. All to
attract the target audience the magazine has been made for.
By challenging real media products with my magazine I have changed
some things with my magazine to make it is not identical to other magazines
out there. With my front cover it is slightly different to other pop magazines. I
haven’t packed the front cover with stories and I haven’t used lots of different
colours for the fonts. I have used three different colours on my contents page
that go together and aren’t too bright and wacky. I don’t have as many
people to take photos of for my magazine as they do in real media products
so I only have a limited amount of images of models (celebrities). In
magazines such as Top of The Pops even thought it is a music magazine they
still have stories that are not music related, I haven’t done this and just kept
all stories and to do with music.

3. Use of real media products
I have used the coloured rectangular
strip across the top of the page with a
My Product cover line written on it. Real Magazine
I have used a bright/bold text and font to
make the masthead stand out on the page
starting from left and going into the middle
of the magazine.
This is the main story of the magazine.
I have made the text bigger than the
other stories on the magazine front
cover and used a brighter/bolder text.
Barcode & price at the bottom of
the page.
These are the cover lines/stories that are spread about the front cover.
Different fonts and colours are used to make each one different and
make each one stand out a little in their own way. Catchy slogan/titles
are also used instead using big wordy language.