How does your product use or challenge conventions of your genre?
How does it represent social groups and issues?
In my magazine product, I used several conventions used in the magazines we researched. For my group and myself specifically, we used conventions of health and fitness magazines. I used several conventions on my cover page, including a white or solid color background, a fit cover model taking up the whole page with their head covering part of the title, and words/phrases/subtexts of article titles in all fonts and colors surrounding the model. For my table of contents, I used conventions of similar format and layout. I replicated the format of having 3-4 categories of article topics and the genre they fall under, and having one section displaying articles in every issue. They all seemed to have a white/bland background with half the page being words directing to pages and the other half being photos. The table of contents page has the date in large fonts, mine was December of 2019, which was a technique I noticed was commonly used in magazines I researched. For my main article, I used some common conventions of layout of pictures and words, and having the branding/page numbers on the bottom of every page (including the table of contents). Every article I read was separated into 2-3 columns per page, so for my main article talking about a local healthy restaurant, I used 2 columns of words on the first page and 3 on the second. In magazines researched in the same genre, pictures for article were either embedded into the article or had a full page of pictures. I chose the route of embedding my photos into the words of the article. I ended up using a total of 3 pictures, which was a personal choice made, but the photos were set up next to it's identical content and had captions of what was going on in the picture, under the photo and in a smaller font. This technique was a common convention I noticed was regularly used in health and fitness magazines.
My magazine and it's conventions help represent health and fitness people, teen ages and up, in the city of Sarasota. The world commonly runs into the problem of its overweight and obese numbers. So, eating healthy and keeping up with exercise is very important, and this magazine is trying to assist in that, specifically for Sarasota and its people. If you don't keep up with yourself, its easy to harm your health or even worse. So as our magazine applies to teen ages and up residents in Sarasota, we want to give tips, locations, and encouragement to our readers and help our target audience achieve their goals.
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