In what way does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

Magazine

Our print work used the conventions of a real media product by emulating the design used by our style

model “Empire” movie magazine; we used our main character to attract the audience’s attention by having her as the main image on the magazine cover. The magazine

cover developed these ideas by using exclusivity to maintain a realistic ideology that other magazines use and also by

adding other stories.  

The magazine cover challenges conventions by using a stereotypical character and presenting this in an unusual

way to focus the audience’s attention to ‘read on’ about the movie. The model’s styling within the media product also

challenges conventions as this is not as per standard in our style model “Empire” magazine.

Big title

Sub Heading

Price

Lots of articles

Magazine website

Smaller Pictures

Barcode

Big Picture

Name of filmAnd a quick review

The movie poster uses conventions of real media products as we have emulated the design of the design used “Burlesque”. This shows two people in black and white and we thought the

layout of the poster would work well for our movie.

We decided to develop this by contrasting two images of the same person, a good side and the bad stereotypical side of our main character ‘Valery’. We used colour images of her instead of black and white to appeal more to our target audience, and

used the slogans “It takes one to know one” to catch the attention of readers. We challenged ideologies by using

different styling to appeal more to our younger audience.

Poster

Airbrushed Photos Title

Tag Line

Credits

Release Date

Age certificate

Film website

Quote from a magazine

Paramount Pictures

Our media product uses the conventions of a real media trailer, by using the

simple structure of a beginning, middle and end. Focusing on our

style model – the trailer to the film Mean Girls, we created a teaser trailer which

used snippets of catching shots to “hook” the audience

and aim to be attractive.

Text Scree

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Time of year that it is to be released

Names of the people starring in it

We used many different shots such as close ups and point of view shots, as well as using match on action. Our

media product developed these ideas used in real media products, by

creating a main character in which the movie is focused around, as well as

using several back up characters to support our main actor.

Paramount Pictures

This is a well know maker of films and as we wanted it to reach the same market as films like Mean

Girls, we choose to use the same company.

The teaser trailer challenged the formats used in real media products by

using a stereotypical character with values which

represented this; we interacted with this stereotypical image and worked with changing the characters values

and beliefs.

Special Effects

Most films these days use specialeffects to grab the watchers attention and think wow and to make the impossible , possible. Byadding special effects to ours, it has kept itin the loop With other big films.