How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
- My project uses most of the common conventions for magazines. My cover page is eye catching and has a catchy name to draw people in. The name of our magazine is Athletica which would be appealing to people involved in sports and the sporting world. The name draws these people in to read our magazine, helping us to capture our target audience. The way I have organized my cover page is also quite conventional. I have the magazine name prominently featured down the side of the page and the main focus of the magazine bolded with related articles shown underneath. Along with this I also have the cover story stated towards the top of the page in a larger font to draw attention. My table of contents is also conventionally set up. I have all of the articles included in the magazine listed, followed by their page number. My two page spread could also be considered conventional because it is set up as a traditional two page spread would be. It includes the article I wrote with pictures sprinkled in of the subject matter. In terms of how my project was organized and the techniques used to grab readers attention, my project was very conventional. Now, in terms of the focus of my magazine and the type of articles I include in each issue, my magazine may challenge some of the common conventions. First off, Hannah and I chose to focus each issue of our magazine on a different sport based on the season and the popular teams at the time. Since my issue of the magazine is the Spring edition, I chose to focus the magazine on baseball which is a spring sport. Hannah did the fall edition of our magazine so the sport she focused on was volleyball. Since I was focusing on baseball, all of my articles on sports were based on baseball teams, players, or games. I also decided to include more then just professional baseball players. I feature profession, college, and high school baseball players in my articles so that we can attract readers of all age groups. For example, in this edition I included an article called "A Week in the Life of a Division 1 Athlete". In this article I featured Nick Long, a pitcher at the University of Florida. Along with the baseball articles, we also decided that based on the sport we would include some nutrition and fitness articles that go along with the sport. Hannah focused her article on the nutritional portion of the magazine. The nutrition articles included the types of diets some of the athletes have to live by. The fitness portion focused on the types of workouts the specific athletes had to undergo. Rather than having a broad sports magazine, ours is very specific and goes quite in depth on each sport we feature which can be rare to find in sports magazines.
- Our target audience for this magazine are athletes and people involved in the sporting world between the ages of 15-45 to be very specific, although we would love to attract viewers of all ages. We represent this social group by focusing on athletes within these ages. We have kids in high school, college, and professional athletes featured so that each person regardless of their age can connect with one of the athletes we feature. Our magazine focuses on some of the issues of sports by researching problems like the overpaying of professional athletes and writing informed articles that address the issue by giving a two sided view. Overall our magazine does a fairly goo job of representing our social group and some of the issues presented in the sporting world today. - Hope Bumgarner
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