Evaluation Question 1- Conventions- Written Content

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

My double page spread

Written Content:

My written content utlisises the vernacular in order to address and relate directly to my target audience. This is conventional of a teen pop music magazine as the publisher realises that this is the best way to make media accessible by using typical teenage language in order to be understood by the audience. Typical features of teenage language include abbreviations, such as "goss" and "amaze"- both featured in my article. By using language frequently used by the audience, they aer encouraged to interact with the magazine as they understand and can relate to the written content. The actual content of my magazine as well as the double page spread article covers music related topics as well as conventional features of teen pop magazines such as gossip elements, artist's personal life and love life. This gives the audience an insight into their lives, allowing my audience a relationship with the audience as they have insight knowledge into their lives. By using a music artist, a general convention of a music magazine, I was able to always reference the fact that my product was a music magazine, and I was able to incorporate musical competitions (something my research proved popular amongst my target audience), such as winning tickets to the featured artist's gig. This reflected the genre of the magazine whilst appealing to their needs (competitions- shown in research stage) and therefore attract a larger audience.