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

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

This is my second part of this question. I wanted to go for a DPS design that was less than conventional so that the reader might be attracted to it. The extra photos on the top right add interest and variety to the page and women like to see before and after type shots of celebrities. I have added a translucent gradient curtain effect using Photoshop so that I could have a blank space for my text. This also created slight sense of mystery around the artist as you can see her but not completely. It adds to her mystique but she is still gazing directly at the reader. The last point I would say that makes it unconventional is the subtitle "INTERVIEW" this shows you the genre which you would expect but in a different form and its faded behind the text so it doesn't steal too much attention. I resisted using pull quotes and a drop cap because these conventional layout devises just wouldn't go with the way that I wanted to layout my text and images on the page.

On the other hand, the things that make it conventional are the bold Title, which shows you what the article on the dps is about, the big photo with a subjective look is very conventional, which is what you would expect as it makes the reader feel more involved. These are all typical of a dps, but the components i used are more unconventional weighing my dps out to be more unique.

If you click on the photo you can see an annotated version of my dps on flickr, for a closer look.