Question 1 powerpoint
- 1. Using, Developing and Challenging forms and conventions of real media products. My media product (Wireless magazine) uses many forms and conventions of a real magazine such as ‘Closer’ or ‘NME’, therefore it makes it possible to recognise my magazine as a real magazine with its large masthead repeating on the contents page, Keeping within the music theme I gave the music magazine the title Wireless also hinting towards the genre and idea of my magazine appealing to music lovers wanting to know the latest with unsigned artists and packed full of festivals and tours to fulfil your summer needs. Although my magazine uses forms and conventions to make it similar to real music magazines I have developed it to break some rules, for example I have a masthead which ticks many boxes as it stands out and is easy to read with its block capital style lettering I have bent the rules by putting my Masthead on a diagonal slant to the left hand side of the page showing my magazines unique and individual sense much like the artists inside the magazine, they break rules but they haven't been shaped into a manufactured pop style.
- 2. On my front cover I decided to challenge forms and conventions within the coverlines I used, With the coverline ‘Sebastian Shrubb’ I used a pull quote to make the readers want to read the rest of the interview however compared to most COVERLINES magazines I challenged forms and conventions by not using capital letters or punctuation unlike magazines such as ‘ArtRocker’.
- 3. Underneath the masthead I used a puff also using the forms and conventions of a real media product, ‘Unmissable unsigned artists’ this is basically describing what's in the magazine, to improve this however I would of made Puff and Photographs it bigger so it would stand out more. Also using forms and conventions I used a cover star although I challenged this by using two photographs rather than just the one, with both of the photographs bleeding of the page. I did this mainly because of the orientation of the magazine also falling out of the boundaries with normal forms and conventions.
- 4. Wireless magazine is on a landscape orientation revealing that my magazine is individual compared to magazines such as ‘OK’ and ‘Heat’ my music magazine challenges forms and conventions of size A4 and of portrait orientation, I did this as I want my magazine to appeal to consumers in higher society classes, with a indie appeal. Also I decided I wanted to print out my ORIENTATION magazine on to a matte surface rather than gloss similar to the magazine I researched into ‘Clash’, Taking all of this into account the printing costs of my music magazine will be significantly higher therefore I need to charge more for the magazine and to make the music magazines sell I will need to make it appeal for both genders.
- 5. Photographs of model and artist Sebastian Shrubb The mise-en-scence of the model creates an image of the type of consumer my magazine is aiming to target. The model is the only person I used because I wanted the readers to become familiar to his face. However to improve I would of used different pictures on the contents page. The photographs use forms and conventions of other magazine apparent from the fact they are all in black and white, I didn't challenge forms and conventions with my photographs as I didn't want my magazine to become provocative or show its aiming at a different type of audience.