This document summarizes how a product front cover challenges conventions of real media products by comparing it to the cover of Q Magazine. Specifically, it positions the title similarly and uses a white background with faded guitar strings, like Q Magazine. However, it indicates the page number rather than just a number. Overall, it aims to capture a "wild side" like Q Magazine but uses a model to convey temptation rather than someone as famous as Cheryl Cole. The covers share overlapping images and layout conventions while differing in small details like indicating the page number.
1. Question 1 In what way does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. Similar positioning of the title. Q Magazine, One of the most popular music magazine around. As you can see, I have tried to make my front cover similar to the Q magazine. I wet for more of the ‘wild side’ of make-up. I may not have someone as stunning as Cheryl Cole, but the model gives off the impression of temptation as well as Cheryl.
3. They both have the same conventions, for example random pictures overlapping. Also I have chosen a white background with the strings of a guitar faded in the background. The differences of these two contents are they way I have set it out. Mine says ‘Page’ whereas for the Q magazine, there is just the number.
