In what ways did your media project develop, challenge or use conventions of real media products?
I looked at existing magazines, but found that there were very little existing covers for the genre of my film, this therefore made it harder for me to pick up on conventions of magazine covers. However I was still able to see the main features used. I wanted to think of my own title just to add more of an edge to the cover. I made the title using Adobe Photoshop, this enabled me to add different layers and effects to my title. 
From looking at other covers the titles are always very large and bold in order to immediately attract attention, so I wanted to achieve the same with my cover. The other main feature of existing covers were to have a cover star, therefore I used the main character from my trailer. This is to also help draw attention to the 
cover and gain audience reaction, this is because they are supposed to recognise the star and people who may be fans of their work will therefore be more likely to buy the magazine. I wanted the magazine cover to look different to my other products such as my poster and trailer, this is because a convention of other films is that the trailer and ancillary texts are usually all based on the same theme. I subverted to this convention by making my magazine cover different to my other texts, this is because the trailer and poster are both very lively and colourful, whereas my cover is more simplistic and classy. I wasn’t sure whether this would work at first as it sort of diffuses the cover from the other products, however this is done in order to create a comedic effect for the audience. This is hopefully achieved by the audience seeing in the trailer a character suffering with bad luck and being a bit of a clown, whereas the magazine cover shows the character as a very sophisticated business man, this is therefore mocking the character as he is trying to be something which we have seen that he quite clearly isn’t. From looking at other existing magazines I noticed that they feature alot of other films, these are usually of the same genre, I wanted to include a variety of films in order to allow it to appeal to a wider target market.
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