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

Our poster and magazine are also conventional to their real counterparts; but the magazine more so than the poster.  We ensured we included every convention of soap magazines on our own as we suspected there would be little room for experimenting if we were to create a real-life soap magazine, which has to conform to certain regulations - for example, displaying various soap stories on it (with images and screenshots from the soap opera that are always stereotypically verisimilitude to easily recognisable scenes of everyday life), following the left-third rule to make for easy viewing for the potential buyer and a bold, catchy title and captivating text.  All these conventions are essential to entice the buyer to purchase the magazine.  We didn't think we could subvert conventions to our advantage in this section.

Our poster is slightly challenging of the conventions as we have chosen not to portray every character from our soap on the poster.  We have chosen one particular storyline involving only four characters - more like a poster for an already-running soap opera.  We knew we had a good slogan, "It's not always sweet in Cherry Gardens", and wanted to use this to our advantage and thought the best way to go about this was to be suggestive through our use of characters and positioning; hinting at a plot without giving too much away.