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

I have attempted to create and use a slightly unconventional format for my magazine front cover. The main image incorporates the title of the magazine, ‘Camag’, and it depicts five students holding paper with the name of the magazine upon it. Furthermore, unlike most magazines, the image only uses half the front cover’s space, while on the cover of the majority of magazines the image uses all the space.
So my magazine challenges the conventional format of real products because the image is not the background.
Although this is one of the only ways my magazine challenges the conventions of real products, it has quite a strong impact. It creates a good effect, as it allows the title to be the first thing the potential reader notices.
It uses conventions of many other existing products, mainly color, and the attraction of both genders.
I wanted to repeat the use of 2 or 3 very strong base colors throughout the magazine, as I’ve seen this be put to very good use in many other media products. I used orange and black, two colors that compliment each other very well.
My magazine is aimed at both genders. Although many magazines target audience is one specific gender, so much so that they have been labeled things such as ‘Lad Mags’, school magazines are normally aimed at the students, so the magazine will reflect the gender of the students. In this case, as it is aimed at the sixth form students, the magazine is aimed at both genders, and in this way is quite conventional.