Conventions

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE

FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Conventions are elements which you always find in a particular media text. For instance, magazines have their own conventions, as do soap episodes, films etc.

HOW HAVE I USED CONVENTIONS IN MY MAGAZINE?VIBE magazine tend to use a maximum of two to three words across the bottom of the page.

My double page spread uses conventions which VIBE also use; such as the black background behind the text on the page. Also the Drop Cap is commonly used in all magazines not only music magazines.

Another convention I have used is the heading on the page which is big and bold, in a very bright colour yellow which I have continued to use in all pages of the magazine.

I have decided to put some words in a larger font size in order connate similarly to VIBE magazine.

On the contents page I have placed the typeface ‘contents’ in a similar convention to VIBE magazine. The letters ‘NTENT’ are slanted in the same

FRONT COVER• The mast head I decide to use was my logo as it is noticed that

VIBE place their name behind the artist’s image; but that’s because their magazine is well established. Whereas mine is new and needs establishing, so I broke the convention (used by VIBE) of placing it behind the artist, however, by placing the logo on the page I still kept the convention but displayed it in my own style.

• There’s always a dominant artist on the front cover of a music magazine. I decided to take on this concept however, I developed this and didn’t follow the traditionally convention of Hip-Hop magazine, as Hip-Hop magazines tends to use either a very aggressive man with a lot of jewelry also they commonly have gold/silver teeth. In contrast the women are generally objectified and show a lot of their skin and wear very little; their posses are usually very sexual and provocative. I broke this convention by having dressed my model fully and not showing any skin.

• However, although I broke a convention I applied many conventions too, such as placing the date, barcode/QR code and website on to the page on the left hand side of the ‘EXCLUSIVE NOW’ convention.

CONTENTS PAGE• The text on the contents page related to the

hip-hop and RnB genre. I made sure that the conventions from VIBE and other music magazines were carried on. Such as the way I placed ‘CONTENTS’ I however chose to develop this convention by making the ‘NTEN’ parallel to my models back.

• It’s a convention of all magazines to have the date, page numbers, main picture (this can sometimes be the same model as the front cover), and in terms of writing I used very minimalists.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

• Costumes in the image are usually very provocative, showing a bit of skin, I have decided to break this convention by using clothes to cover her skin. Fonts and style- very much follow the style/convention

• RnB/Hip-Hop music magazines often display their music artists as seductive or promiscuous. Mine has kept it simple, and a sharp design.

• The only thing different in the picture is her pose however I have decide to keep the Mise en scene the same with all three pictures in my music magazine.

• I have followed the convention of using a large image, and minimal text.