~Evaluation~ In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A Evaluation of my Media project - School Magazine front cover and contents page.

- Looking at the product.

When looking at my media product I must look at the way that this product has developed its self as a magazine. To do this I must look at the way that the product uses and or changes the conventions and forms of real media products. 

First I will look at the way the product uses conventions. 

Looking at an actual school magazine in comparison to mine.

With this magazine the information on all the pages is located on the front cover, my magazine has more lours on the front cover to bring the audience in to the magazine. but with this cover it also uses a way to bring the audience in to the product, it uses  "sports overview" lour to make the viewer want to see more.
This magazine also has a key image that reflects school life, like mine too the key image is to do about school but with mine my key image subverting the convention by pushing the image to the back and focusing more on the boxes and this is clearly shown with the FFH magazine by the C on the girls shirt representing a netball game. the C shirt is a convention for sports in schools. In comparison to mine though, I do not use a human figure, instead mine is using one of the school buildings to present the school feel.

What my product does different or does not follow conventions of a school magazine.my product has many more pages than the "FFH" product, and does not show the whole contents of the magazine on the front cover, instead my product takes the conventions from a normal high street magazine, and mixes it with a school magazine.

with this feature the viewer is more drawn in to the product due to the more common look and feel of the magazine, whilst keeping it a school orientated magazine.


This magazine challenged the forms of a real school magazine by adding a style change to each session, instead of colour variation it changes the type of box that outlines the text to keep the graphics fresh and new. other real life magazines change with this too, here is a magazine that i read that changes every episode to fit the main story.

So by doing this I am giving the viewer a pleasant look to their issues.