Evaluation question 1

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

My front cover and contents page closely follow the key codes and conventions that are used in other magazines in the genre I have chosen, which is a student magazine; focused mainly on student fashion and other key aspects of general student life. One of the main conventions that I used in my magazine is reversed out coverlines. I have used these to highlight all of the magazines main selling points and the sans sherif font connotes an informal and fun yet also tells the reader all the important issues in student life, such as choosing the right university. The slight uneven edges to each reversed out coverline draw the audience's attention to each indivual point and also conntoes a fun, energetic, youthful and unconvential effect that will have not be seen before and also provides the magazine with something that the audience can recognise and link with my magazine. Other aspects that feature within my front cover and therefore with other magazines of it's type are; a MCU, a screamer, the issue date and price, and a masthead.

The contents page for my magazine similarly fits in well with other magazines of it's type. The contents page uses the same designs as on the front cover; the same colour desgins, reversed out bold colours, sans sherif font, informal language and one of the most important conventions for a contents page, the letter from the editor. This connotes a personal and more friendly approach that makes the audience beleive in the editor and therefore the magazine, you feel that little bit closer to the person that runs that particular magazine.