Jeff Agenor (AS Media Studies Blog) : Evaluation Question #1. What ways my media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?

In my JAMZ magazine I featured my artist on the Front Cover, Contents and DP Spread, doing such is important as it matches conventions as seen on existing products, introducing chronology in the product.

Another key thing I did was that I placed my artist's feature story on a pages 7-8, somewhere not too far in the magazine. Doing so enables the reader or audience to identify the artists' story almost instantly. This makes sense because looking at most existing magazines it makes you wonder why is it important and why do they do it? It's because if you feature an artist or band on the front cover of a magazine, as a producer you want to relay that information to the reader immediately, because the eye catching Front Cover already grasped their attention and they (reader) want to find out more information on that artist or band.

Furthermore, I used not more than 3 different colours or font styles throughout my magazine which were Red, Green and a light blue/violet which you can see on my FC and Contents Page. This again matches conventions of existing products. This is also good because it makes your layout cosistent and looking at most existing music magazines I have found out that they create a ‘house style.’ Every magazine is unique and since various companies produce certain magazines, they give a distinct look to themselves by using specific colour and text.

Continuity is even more prominent when you look at all 3 pages because I have placed my distinctive ‘JAMZ’ logo on the FC as the Masthead; the contents page to the top right and the DP spread to the bottom right, next to the page number.

CONVENTIONS ANALYSIS
(JAMZ MAGAZINE)

Front Cover