2. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The use of bright colors throughout my product has been used in order to try and attract a younger audience. The use of simple text has also been a factor in my product; this in co-ordination with a fun text has also been used in order to attract a younger audience. Pictures have been used to engage the reader in the article; this will mean it is less boring as it is not just text. I have tried to use as much of the space as I possible could have in all part of my product, however I have made sure that none of my pictures or text cramped together. I wanted to make sure that there was nowhere on my product that was left blank and unfilled. By making all the title bold the reader can easily distinguish which part of the magazine they are looking at, also the quotes which are next to information make it easy for the reader to see what they can expect from the corresponding article. Other articles Other magazines seem to use a similar way of producing a product. A lot of the products that I have seen have been given brightly coloured pages so that they can appeal to a wider audience and so that they can easily be picked off of a shelf. Another device that most magazines have followed is the use of simple text and a very simple font, this is so that it is easy for a reader to read. I have taken this my own way by making my text quite fun so that it is not such a drag having to read it. Many of the magazines I have seen have cramped a lot of text and pictures on a page, however I have decided that I wanted to have quite an open page but with a quite compact feeling to it as well. This is so that I don’t try and cram too much information down the readers throat at once. I have also mirrored the way in which many of the magazines have bold wording for important parts (e.g. quotes) and titles.
