Use of Conventions

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

For my magazine, I used a variety of formatting and styles. I used many different magazines as inspiration to help me set up my magazine. For the cover, I used rule of thirds with the cover images to make it more appealing to the viewer. I positioned the left subheading so that it fills in the negative space. I chose to use different shades of yellow because it matched a color on the model's shirt. Many magazines covers that I looked at chose one color or different shades of a color for the cover. I also used many different fonts to help the reader differentiate between lines. For the table of contents, I put all the words on the left and the images on the right. I also used many different fonts to help separate sections of the text. For the two article pages, I used images all from one photo shoot so that they would match with the color theme. For the title of the article, I used a bold font with a shadow to help it pop off that page. Since the magazine is geared towards photographers, and photography equipment can be very expensive, I would say this magazine is for people who have more money.