In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The generic conventions of a front cover are Masthead, Cover Lines, Barcode, Selling Line, Main Image, Exclusive Extra, Date and Serif Font.
This is my masthead, What inspired my Masthead was Q Magazine's. I liked the red background and I quite liked the singular letter but I didn't feel that just the Q stood out to me that it was a music magazine automatically. That's why I called my magazine 'Listen' When I think of the word Listen I think of music. I done a red background just like Q does but because the name was Listen, it wasn't just going to be a singular, I also used a gradient fill which not many magazines use. I used a gradient fill because It's really eye catching and stands straight out, I have challenged the conventions by using a gradient fill, but I decided to keep it because I got really positive audience feedback off it. It really stands out from the red background, it bounces off it and I think my masthead looks really good.
These are my cover line stories, so the stories that will feature in my Contents Page. I have used artists that relate to my Target Audience. My music genre target audience is quite a large range. Because I was looking at Q and I was looking at their music genre audience I felt that Q had quite a wide range of genres for their magazine. My magazine mainly focuses on Pop and Chart music but I have also used a bit of rap music as well within my magazine. So i used artists like Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Drake, these are artists that I myself like and that a lot of people in my target audience liked as well. I also wrote about the V fest Lineup, Uk top 40, Free iTunes voucher, upcoming tours, free posters and winning a day with Lauren (main story) I decided
use V fest because that is an upcoming tour which
all different kinds of musical genres everywhere.
Upcoming tours which has local tour dates. Free
posters also because I found that a lot of magazines it also makes people feel like they are getting value for their money.
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This is my Barcode, Issue Date and price. I have positioned this in the top right hand corner. Even though I've looked at Q's magazine mainly for my style model I haven't used a style model for this I went through a lot of music magazines and noticed most magazines tend to have their barcodes on the bottom so I have challenged the conventions by having it at the top. Also a lot of magazines have the issue number and price inside their barcode but I have challenged the conventions by doing this and I've had positive feedback about it.
This is the selling line of my magazine. The selling line is quite an important convention of the magazine. As mine says 'UK'S BEST MUSIC MAGAZINE.' It draws consumers in because it sounds like It has been voted the best magazine in the UK. Which I have made reference to in my contents page by saying vote us the best music magazine for the third year running. Q's selling line is Discover great music.
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