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

2. Within this presentation I will be comparing
how our magazine cover challenged or
complemented real media texts e.g. Sight and
Sound magazine cover. I will be looking at
previously analysed magazine covers and see
whether they can relate or challenge our
magazine cover; ‘Temporary Life’.

3. Vs.

4.  Similarly to Fish Tank’s front cover on Sight
and Sound magazine we chose to use a n
image which has the main character in the
foreground with a bland pale background. The
way in which it differs is that Fish Tanks
version includes an industrial background
which we chose not to use with our images

5.  When looking at Fish Tank’s Sight and
Sound magazine we noticed they used different
fonts and colours for each tagline on their
front cover. We decided to use this convention
as well when developing our front cover. This
therefore is a convention which is similar
within real media conventions.

6.  When planning our layout we looked at the
layout of Sight and Sound and found the image
of the character was on the right hand side of
the page and the text on the left. We chose to
do the same layout as we felt it would portray
our message as simply as possible. This is
another similarity between our product and the
real media conventions of a magazine cover.

7.  To make our magazine cover look as
realistic as possible we copied the logos from
the magazine cover onto ours. This is how we
made our magazine cover appear professional.
By using these same conventions it made our
audience know which magazine they were
buying and what our price was.