1.

In what ways does your media product

use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?
Masthead
Colour
scheme/ho
use style
Main image
Serif fonts
Main cover line
Cover
lines
Banner &
tag line
Barcode/edition

How I followed
codes and
conventions?
In my magazine I think I followed codes and
conventions fairly well. My masthead
remains in the first horizontal third of the
page conventional as other magazines. The
main image although not involving direct
address has a main focal point with the
hotspot areas. Ive followed an evident
colour scheme of the college colours ;
purple, orange, green and blue which and
altered between the colours to give it that
look of an already established magazine. My
cover lines are all to one side of a the page
allowing insight to the magazines content
without actually interfering with the main
image, my main cover line somewhat
anchors the main image although not
obviously. I've kept the barcode in the
bottom right corner also known as the dead
are as it is irrelevant to readers. The only
thing slightly unconventional would be the
banner & tagline, in magazines they are
usually kept to the top of the page near the
mast head so it is easily associated however
Ive placed mine at the very bottom of the
page so it is the last this to catch the readers
eye before turning the page giving it that I
want to read-on feel.