Evaluation - Q7: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Front cover

The cover of my magazine uses, develops and in some ways challenges many of the forms and conventions of existing media products. The masthead is at the top of the page, which is a common position. The main image covers the whole of the cover and I have developed using the main image with the editing I have done to it. The background is black and white in comparison to the model and it over laps the masthead slightly emphasising brand recognition. There is only one sell lines which could be seen as an unusual use of this convention but I like the simplistic look of my cover and I think it works best with the style of the magazine and the main image. I think the byline that I have put in at the bottom challenges the normal conventions of a byline. I thin this because the language I have used is risky and hasn't been done on another magazine.