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

This question is asking you to be a detective. There are two elements to this case:

1. What are the clues in my magazine?
   • The clues are the conventions
2. What meaning is suggested, implied or connoted through those clues?
   • The meaning is the representation.

We have done work on the conventions of magazine and you may need to revisit the lessons in the departmental blog blog and the important posts in your own. These will refresh you memory about the key concepts and terminology you need to use in the reflection.

The work we did on identifying conventions (clues) are in these posts:

• How the camera makes meaning
• Writing the article.
• Magazine Page Layout
• Your Analysis of the Front Page of a Magazine

The work we did on representation (values, attitudes & beliefs) are in these posts:

• Your Mission Statement
• Representation and The Star
• Mise-en-scene (Designing your star)
• Textual Analysis (Album or Tour Poster)

Task 1:

Identify all the (conventions) clues on your magazine pages.

Task 2:

Using your mission statement, your design ideas for your star & analysis of your own magazine pages, develop a list of 15-20 adjectives which can be used to describe the values, attitudes and beliefs of your magazine and stars.

Task 3:

Present your ideas using Prezi.

1. Sign up to a free account
2. Copy and rename this prezi

1. Replace the images in the presentation with examples from your own magazine (use the snipping tool).
2. Replace the words in the presentation with…
   • …description of your examples (used or developed) and
   • …analysis the representational meaning the examples communicate.

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Some additional resources that may help:

• Conventions of a music magazine
• The Paradox of the Star – Star Image – Metanarrative – Richard Dyer
• Star Building – the metanarrative – the big picture