Compulsory Question 1
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Hello everyone. My name is David Martinez. My candidate number is 14 to 1.
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My center number is us 154.
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Today will be answering compulsory question one for my ace media studies class,
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compulsory question one asks how does your product use or challenge
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social conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues.
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My answer to that is my magazine is in line with the
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guidelines of a standard magazine which include a masthead tagline cover image,
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barcode, cover lines and issue number and a date.
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Taking an idea of how these principles are applied by real magazine publishers.
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I used Pc gamer and game as an inspiration.
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So let's look at my cover ah my cover
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page conventions when looking at the Corona magazine.
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The first thing you notice is the masthead which is written in the largest
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font and is highlighted with black along its border to make it stand out
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above that we see the tagline which describes the main topic of the magazine
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In this case the biggest games of 2022
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scattered throughout the cover.
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We also see several cover lines that give the reader an idea of
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the contents of the magazine before even looking at the contents page.
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Also included around all with an article that is
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that had exclusive written to highlight double page,
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the double page spread feature article.
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The barcode is also placed at the bottom right as to not draw
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too much attention to it and is purposely kept away from the main
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the main attractions
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of the cover page.
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The first thing we see when we look at the content pages, the word content
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as just like the title
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it is raining away to draw attention to it.
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We also see three pictures that each
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correlate to relevant content within the magazine.
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With respective article page numbers on the top left of each picture.
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The cover page includes the headings of articles clearly visible in a bold font,
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larger than the subheadings.
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The respective articles. Page number is also visible for ease of use.
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Subheadings are also visible,
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which give the reader an idea of the content of the article.
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Also on the content page we see the featured double page spread article from the
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cover in a larger font than the regular articles in the table of contents.
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This is made to draw attention to the article as
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the word exclusive is highlighted in red to draw attention
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and how does the magazine represent? Social groups and issues.
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My magazine was targeted towards middle and lower class
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gamers as a magazine made by gamers for gamers.
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We see this with one of the articles on the cover line
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as well as articles within the table of contents that advertising budget,
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computer parts and the buyer's guides.
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It is meant to make the reader of the magazine to feel a sense of community
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as they are reading something that is not written by someone being paid to write it
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but rather by one of their own
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Thank you