1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (3)

 


My double page spread is very similar to my contents page in terms of conventions and layout, in the fact that important features are highlighted in a larger font and/or the blue and grey highlighted boxes. Also, the limited use of images and the increased amount of writing that challenges the conventions of regular main stream magazines. A key way that I challenged conventions in this magazine is the title of the headlines of the articles. Using vague, non descriptive titles such as 'Surfacing Our Pond' does not fully explain what the article is about and therefore challenges conventions. However in keeping with Jazz magazine trends, I used captions under many of the images in my magazine, either crediting the photographer or even explaining what the image is. One final difference between my magazine and mainstream magazines is that the images themselves are considered plain. This is because of the limited background that they boast, this was used for the same reason as the white background, to connote simplicity.