CCR Draft #1

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


              My magazine uses and challenges the conventions of the genre it is about I many ways. In my magazine, one of the ways I used conventions of a magazine is by putting a subheading under the title. This subheading was present in all of the magazine's that I had researched. What the subheading does is allow the audience to have an idea of what the magazine is about with having to open the first page. This helps greatly with new readers because of the fact that they have never read it before. In addition, I also used a convention most fishing magazines use which is having a massive fish on the cover of the magazine. Depending on the type of magazine, different types of fish will be on the cover but making sure the fish is a trophy catch is the best thing to do. By doing this, the magazine is able to catch the audience's eye and make them want to pick up your magazine and read it even more. One thing that fishing magazines make sure to do with their articles is make sure they contain specific content. This content has to be something that inexperienced fishermen can stay interested in and that they can apply to their fishing. My article lets the reader know what to do when fishing which will keep them coming back to learn more. Also, this magazine represents a popular social group. This social group is fishermen that are trying to learn more about fishing and become better at fishing. This is shown by the abundance of tips and tricks presented throughout the magazine and the pictures containing trophy bass. The tips and important info show that the point of the magazine is to teach the audience, which happens to be this social group. The pictures are shown to show the audience what they are trying to catch once they get more experience with fishing.