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In what ways does my magazine use, develop
and challenge forms and conventions of real
magazines?
AS Media \ Evaluation \ Rob Clarke
In what ways does my magazine use, develop and
challenge forms and conventions of real
magazines?
Direct mode of address
I have challenged the codes and
conventions of real magazines by not
using direct mode of address on my
double page spread.
I have decided to not follow the codes and
conventions on this because I decided it
would be better and suit the article more if
I had the artist looking at his guitar, which
would then direct attention to the guitar,
and make the focus on his music and not
the artist, which reflects one of the themes
of my magazine.
However, I have used DMOA in the rest of
my photos, which shows I have also used
this convention, as well as developing it.
Magazine Cover
I have followed the majority of the codes
and conventions magazine covers.
I included a banner showing articles
included in the magazine, alongside
another which has the price and other
information about the magazine. I’ve
included 3 feature articles alongside the
right of the magazine, which is another
feature that was prominent in my research.
I also followed codes and conventions in
that I used a promotion at the top of the
cover, and put a sub heading below the
main cover line.
In what ways does my magazine use, develop and
challenge forms and conventions of real
magazines?
Contents PageAgain, I followed a large number of codes
and conventions with my contents page. I
used the normal style of having a column
of contents alongside the right-hand side
of the page, similar to ‘Kerrang!’ & ‘NME’,
and I kept the colours consistent of that
throughout the rest of my magazine, which
is another code and convention of
magazine contents pages.
In what ways does my magazine use, develop and
challenge forms and conventions of real
magazines?