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

My magazine cover is pretty conventional; the masthead is placed at the top and is in a big font, so that people can see that this is the name of the magazine. The real magazine on the right has a picture of Calvin Harris taking up most of the space on the cover, for mine, I used a picture of my friend and re sized it so that it takes up most of the space. My main cover line, which is associated with the picture of the magazine, is the biggest of all story lines to show that it is the featured article in the magazine. My magazine features a promise on the cover of the magazine, which includes a free CD that the consumer gets with the purchase. The barcode can be found in the bottom right hand corner where it is placed to not get in the way of the cover picture or in the way of any cover lines.

My contents page is conventional, and also follows the purple, black and white house style, and uses the same fonts as the cover of the magazine. 3 pictures are placed on the right side of the magazine which is associated to stories in the magazine; the biggest picture is also associated with the main cover line. The contents page allows the readers to see what else is included in the magazine, and has page numbers next to them to show what page it is on.

My double page spread follows the house style of the magazine again. It is split up into 4 columns where text is placed that make it easier to read. The picture takes up the whole double page, but the text is wrapped around his head so that they do not get in the way of each other. A drop cap is placed at the beginning of the interview, and a pull quote is placed at the bottom of the third column. The text the interviewer asked is in purple, and the answers given are in white, to allow readers to easily see who said what. My article follows the basic conventions of double page spreads.