Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The fonts that I have used on the cover of my magazine are both bold and a contrast between serif and sans serif. The reason that I have done this is to separate the main cover line from the other cover lines to make it stand out and catch the eye of the reader so that they know that it is the focal article in the magazine. The use of both serif and sans serif fonts together is also a technique Q magazine font example The main image on my magazine cover is of a young artist ‘Jord’. The target audience for my magazine is 16 years and over therefore I felt that my main artist should be young so that younger readers are able to identify with him. Q magazine has a similar target audience to my magazine therefore their cover artist is also young. ‘Jord’ is also wearing a dark coat. This use of mise en scene follows the conventions of a I have taken a lot of influence from Q magazine for my product. The colours used on Q are reds, black and white which represent the genre of rock because they symbolise danger and intensity. The colour scheme for my magazine is red, black, white and grey. By using dark, hard colours I am following the conventions of Q, a rock magazine. The dark red and black colours of my product contrast against the lighter greys and whites which The layout of my contents page is similar to that of Q in the way that I have separated the information using bars. Another technique I have used inspired by Q magazine is highlighting the page numbers using a shape tool. I used circles rather than squares for this as I felt that this shape worked better for the younger audience because it gives the page a more informal look. I have broken the Q magazine have written their article in a formal, biographical style which is more applicable to their older target audience. The main article on my double page spread is informal which is appropriate to my younger target audience because it is ‘chatty’ and in the style of an interview. By doing this I have broken the conventions of a rock magazine in order to suit the younger members of my target audience. I
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Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The fonts that I have used on the cover of my magazine are both bold and a contrast between serif and sans serif. The reason that I have done this is to separate the main cover line from the other cover lines to make it stand out and catch the eye of the reader so that they know that it is the focal article in the magazine. The use of both serif and sans serif fonts together is also a technique used by Q magazine which has the same classic rock genre as my product. This follows the conventions of a rock music magazine because the serif fonts are formal yet bold which symbolise the harsh sounds of rock music.
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The main image on my magazine cover is of a young artist ‘Jord’. The target audience for my magazine is 16 years and over therefore I felt that my main artist should be young so that younger readers are able to identify with him. Q magazine has a similar target audience to my magazine therefore their cover artist is also young. ‘Jord’ is also wearing a dark coat. This use of mise en scene follows the conventions of a rock magazine because rock music is associated with dark colours. However, I have broken this convention by using high-key lighting on my photographs which is not stereotypical of loud rock music.
I have taken a lot of influence from Q magazine for my product. The colours used on Q are reds, black and white which represent the genre of rock because they symbolise danger and intensity. The colour scheme for my magazine is red, black, white and grey. By using dark, hard colours I am following the conventions of Q, a rock magazine. The dark red and black colours of my product contrast against the lighter greys and whites which make them stand out and therefore catch the eye of the reader. My audience, fans of rock music, can identify with the magazine because the colours symbolise the rock genre so they will immediately know the genre of my magazine through the colours on the cover.
The layout of my contents page is similar to that of Q in the way that I have separated the information using bars. Another technique I have used inspired by Q magazine is highlighting the page numbers using a shape tool. I used circles rather than squares for this as I felt that this shape worked better for the younger audience because it gives the page a more informal look. I have broken the conventions of a typical rock magazine by only using two photographs rather than several. I did this because I felt that the page would look too busy if I added more photographs.
Q magazine have written their article in a formal, biographical style which is more applicable to their older target audience. The main article on my double page spread is informal which is appropriate to my younger target audience because it is ‘chatty’ and in the style of an interview. By doing this I have broken the conventions of a rock magazine in order to suit the younger members of my target audience. I have, however, given my article a mature, formal feel by using serif font for the article which also depicts the seriousness of the article’s subject.
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