1. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products.
Magazine Front Cover

2. Just like the research for the theatrical poster this part of the
process had a massive impact on the overall design. We looked
mainly at designs of total film which is a British based magazine.
Research Total Film provides a range of features, from full-length interviews
and photo shoots with established and up-and-coming actors and
directors, to major film previews and retrospective pieces. The
were a few key elements that we wanted to include in our
Very spacious. magazine.
There is one main model
on the cover, this is
usually the person
featured in the interview.
Using one of actresses in Barcode just
our film creates the link to again add
needed between the authenticity
poster and the magazine.
As well as having the main
feature of the magazine,
Sticking strictly to the there needs to be other
research used the selling points and this is in
same magazine title all types of magazine.
and text, really
reinforcing
authenticity More text of
additional
features
An important requirement
is that all three elements
of work there is a link.
Added a poster of all the
cast can create that. We
used a similar border for
the picture.

3. Layout
We developed the conventions and forms of real media products, as well as using our
own ideas. This is evident in our layout of the magazine. There is a similar trend that
runs through our research and final product for instance there is a set focus of the
model . But we decided to position the text ‘Total Film’ differently and made this
element smaller to exaggerate the focus on her, as she is the main selling point of
this particular issue of the magazine.

4. Photo shoot
• With a product based on research we therefore were complying to the
rules of established media products, we made sure that in our photo shoot
that we focused on one character in the film. In the research stage I found
a trend of presenting strong women and my group decided to continue this
idea.
• We decided to use shots that showed the top half of
our models body. Which was found in a number of
research examples. Also her presence is more
dominating than full length.

5. Concept
Instead of trying to capture our
film in the photographs we tried to
show a different side of one of the
main character
of the film. Taking a different toll
on a film magazine where there is
the link to the film in the concept
of the picture.
The shoot was quite glamorous
compared to our hard hitting
drama. We decided to take the
photo shoot indoors.
Within our design we tried to use
the theory of binary opposites
(Neil). There is a growing amount
of media coverage surrounding
young offenders so that was the
reason for choosing newspapers as
clothing and the actress in the film
was key role in a criminal offence
in our film

6. Conclusion
• As well as using real media products as the basis of our ideas like our first ancillary task we
however tried to use a unique concept to make our magazine stand out. In the media world
these types of things needs to be applied as it is used a selling point as there are so many
competing media products in this day and age. Using a photo from the process of our first
ancillary task, helps with selling and advertisement of the film which is the main aim of the
feature of the main character. At the same time it maintains the strong link between all three
products we made for our advance portfolio.