In What Way Does Your Media Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?

Looking at the magazine covers I edited Q and Top of the Pops i decided i wanted my magazine to be more along the lines of Q so based my research upon this. Generic traits of a non gender specific older teen magazine is to have a mutual colour e.g. black, white, yellow etc ... the magazines also dont place the more gender specific features on the front cover of the magazine e.g. an advice column would be more aimed towards the female audience and the gadget page would be more specific to the generic male audience. When i designed my magazine i used the mutal colour of black for thew front cover, so i didnt attract one gender, however i unlike on other magazines similar to mine i did use a fairly generic male feature on the front cover, which was the feature about the new iPod, but i used it becasue i think that the female audience would also be interested in reading about this.

I didnt do much research on the contents page, however the research i did do showed that the contents pages usually use a mixture of text and pictures. My contents page was by far my worst page, however much i played around with it, it just didnt seem to improve it. I used the convention of using both images and text and attempted to make it look as professional as i possibly could.

I did the most research on the double page spread. looking at similar genre magazines interviews i found they always had a cation to summerize the interview under the title, they also had parts of the interview made bigger and highlighted, these were major points in the interview. The double page interviews also had a combination of text and media. A couple of the interviews i researched had a promotion of the interviewees product. I also rersearched the types of questions that would be asked in this sort of an interview. When i designed my double page interview i used all of the conventions i mentioned above, these were to have a summary of the interview below the title as it seemed a common occurence in all the interviews i researched, i also used the idea of having the main points of the interview enlarged and put in little bubbles to highlight them as this also occured in all the interviews i researched, when i was writing the questions i made up most of them myself with inspiration from the other magazines, however i also copied some of the more conventional questions. I also decided to add in a promotion into my interview of 'Racahel Woods' ' new single this was mainly to take up a little extra room.