Friday, 11 April 2014
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
During the process of creating my product, it was important to make sure that I maintained a good sense of continuity. In order to create my house-style I researched into similar products such as Kerrang! and Rocksound to get ideas for colour schemes and layout to make my product look as professional as possible by making it conventional. I achieved this by using the same text fonts for certain parts of the magazine, for example using a bolder text for page titles and a smaller font for paragraphs. I also used the same colours and layout styles keeping the main images connected and articles linked. Following these features through the three parts of my product helped to keep a consistent look making the pages instantly identifiable as being related to each other. Black, purple and white are the main colours used as they stand out well. Black and purple are also very conventional of this genre as they are dark and reflect the ambiance of the music type. I also based it off the costume of my main model as I wanted the house-style to fit well with the main images and mise-en-scene.
Whilst creating my products I made sure to include the generic conventions of magazines of this genre such as plugs to make information stand out, having an effective main image and using capital letters to place emphasis on titles, a convention I found used a lot in my research. I also looked at elements such as placement of page numbers as my research showed that page numbers were shown in sub-headings on the contents page and the double page spread would be later on in the magazine rather than at the beginning. I researched appropriate font types and aesthetics which would be appealing to my demographic such as my title font which would not be considered an appropriate convention of a pop or R&B magazine.
My product dosent stand out in any areas as being unconventional or challenging/pushing boundaries of common conventions. In order to appeal to a wider audience of readers it sticks to popular conventions used by other successful magazines and generalizes a wider genre in order to sell to a mass market.
Ways in which my product uses conventions:
During the process of creating my product, it was important to make sure that I maintained a good sense of continuity. In order to create my house-style I researched into similar products such as Kerrang! and Rocksound to get ideas for colour schemes and layout to make my product look as professional as possible by making it conventional. I achieved this by using the same text fonts for certain parts of the magazine, for example using a bolder text for page titles and a smaller font for paragraphs. I also used the same colours and layout styles keeping the main images connected and articles linked. Following these features through the three parts of my product helped to keep a consistent look making the pages instantly identifiable as being related to each other. Black, purple and white are the main colours used as they stand out well. Black and purple are also very conventional of this genre as they are dark and reflect the ambiance of the music type. I also based it off the costume of my main model as I wanted the house-style to fit well with the main images and mise-en-scene.
Whilst creating my products I made sure to include the generic conventions of magazines of this genre such as plugs to make information stand out, having an effective main image and using capital letters to place emphasis on titles, a convention I found used a lot in my research. I also looked at elements such as placement of page numbers as my research showed that page numbers were shown in sub-headings on the contents page and the double page spread would be later on in the magazine rather than at the beginning. I researched appropriate font types and aesthetics which would be appealing to my demographic such as my title font which would not be considered an appropriate convention of a pop or R&B magazine.
My product dosent stand out in any areas as being unconventional or challenging/pushing boundaries of common conventions. In order to appeal to a wider audience of readers it sticks to popular conventions used by other successful magazines and generalizes a wider genre in order to sell to a mass market.
Ways in which my product uses conventions:
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