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

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

My finished media magazine has a wide range of media conventions. The front cover of my magazine uses the same features of a music magazine already on the market. I have done this by studying magazines and identifying the features that make the magazines stand out against other magazines already on the market. Some key features on the front of magazines already on the market is the use of capital letters and puffs. 

Here are two examples of puffs that i have included on my front cover to my magazine. The pull quotes here are used to draw attention to potential buyers to the magazine, the use of capital letters also makes the quotes stand out.




Below shows where i have used both of theses conventions. The use of block capitals make the magazines text scream out to the viewers, this is because block capitals are bold and stand out to the human eye. In the designing process of the magazine I felt I needed a bold text on the front page of my magazine as quite a busy page so I wanted the title to be a central focus this has a similar effect to the magazine 'NME' nme has a busy front page but uses a bold title to make it stand out against the busy background, this has worked efficiently for NME as there a well known music magazine by there title.

Below is an example of how NME title stands out against the background: 

The title beside also shows how the NME title is so well known because of the use of a bold font. It is also partly covered this suggest to us the company is confident in the fact the magazines title is well known so they feel comfortable to be able to cover the title by there feature artist. The fact the magazine company NME can do this is because they started off with NME being bold so it stood out until people knew the name because my magazine is only recently being distributed into the music industry I feel its safer for the title not to be overlayed by the feature artist however because im using a bold font i feel the name will be known quickly so this is therefore something i would like to progress too for future magazines.


Another media convention that my magazine uses well is the use of puffs. Puffs are quotes about the magazine used to draw attention to the page. The front page of my magazine summertime madness has used a handful of useful puffs i feel work really well at selling the magazine and drawing attention to the potential buyer. I feel puffs are a good source of small amounts of information that make you want to buy the magazine. A variety of music magazine that I studied all used puffs i feel this is because it makes the magazine more sell-able to the target audience. The better the puff the more magazines will sell because the puff is used to sell the magazines stories in a line or phrase, puffs can take the most dramatic/exciting line out of an article and make you want to read that article therefore the magazine might be brought just because of that one article the buyer wants to read. This is a sneaky thing many magazines all across the country will do, it makes the buyer want the magazine. This is similar to the use of feature artists, many magazine companies use popular feature artists to sell there magazine as they aim the magazine at the feature artists fan the more fans the feature artist has the more magazines will be brought as the fans may have never brought the magazines brand before but will buy it to read the article.  This is why i have decided to include a feature artists in my magazine. The fact my feature artists are advertised on the front of the magazine will draw in there fans meaning more magazines will be sold, ive included three feature artists in my magazine so the fans of theses will buy the magazine to read there article. The more feature artists the magazine includes the more likely the magazine is to sell. 

This video is advertising a feature artist on the front cover of NME i found this video particularly  interesting as it shows you how the magazines front page is put together but advertises the artist at the same time, the video shows you which media conventions are used but is also a good way to market then magazine: