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

2. Just like the research for the theatrical poster this part of the
process had a massive impact on the overall design. We looked
mainly at designs of total film which is a British based magazine.
Research Total Film provides a range of features, from full-length interviews
and photo shoots with established and up-and-coming actors and
directors, to major film previews and retrospective pieces. The
were a few key elements that we wanted to include in our
Very spacious. magazine.
There is one main model
on the cover, this is
usually the person
featured in the interview.
Using one of actresses in Barcode just
our film creates the link to again add
needed between the authenticity
poster and the magazine.
As well as having the main
feature of the
Sticking strictly to the magazine, there needs to
research used the be other selling points and
same magazine title this is in all types of
and text, really magazine.
reinforcing
authenticity More text of
additional
features
An important requirement
is that all three elements
of work there is a link.
Added a poster of all the
cast can create that. We
used a similar border for
the picture.

3. Layout
Developing the conventions and forms of real media products, as well as
using our own ideas. This is evident in our layout of the magazine.

4. Photo shoot
• As based on a research therefore complying to the rules of
established media products, we made sure that in our photo
shoot that we focused on one character in the film.
• We decided to use shots that showed the top half of
our models body. Which was found in a number of
research examples.

5. Concept
Instead of trying to capture our
film in the photographs we tried to
show a different side of one of the
main characters
of the film. Taking a different toll
on a film magazine where there is
the link is in the concept of the
picture.
The shoot was quite glamorous
compared to our hard hitting
drama.
Within our design we tried to use
the theory of binary opposites.
There is a growing amount of
media coverage surrounding
young offenders so that was the
choice of the newspapers as
clothing and the actress in the film
was key in a criminal offence in our
film

6. Conclusion
• As well as using real media products as the basis of our ideas like our first ancillary task we
however tried to use a unique concept to make our magazine stand out. In the media world
these types of things needs to be applied as it is used a selling point as there are so many
competing media products in this day and age.