Media Evaluation 1

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

My magazine has a lot of typical codes and conventions that a magazine has such as: date, edition number, barcode, a masthead, main coverline, main image and sub coverlines.
The title of my magazine follows typical conventions of a magazine as it is in larger text then the rest of the front cover to make it stand out so the audience knows what magazine it is but also the placement of the main title at the top of the page is a code of magazine media.
The main image is placed in the centre of my front cover like most magzine images are so i am following the traditional conventions of a magazine.
The use of the barcode in the bottom right corner means that it doesnt take a lot of space up as it is one of the less important parts of the magazine.
The date and issue number on my magazine are at the top left hand corner in a smaller font compared to the rest of the magazines front cover font due to it being less important and not what someone looking to buy the magazine would look at straight away.