Use of Conventions

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

For our magazine, The Crafting Corner, we researched many different magazines that were of a similar subject matter. Some of the magazines had articles that were focused on a specific topic; crafting, cooking, or decorating. Our magazine combines all of the topics that we researched. We took ideas from each of the magazines we had researched and combined it to make a magazine that covered more than just one main topic. It allowed us to diversify our articles and create an article that really incorporated all forms of "crafting." In doing this, we both challenged and used conventions in the creation of our magazine. The cover designs and table of contents layout follow the layouts of similar magazines, and our articles have aspects of the articles we looked at, but the layout is also slightly different from many of the articles we looked at.
Additionally, while our product does not have a serious or controversial tone, it allows every-day people the chance to exercise their creative side, either by themselves or with their friends and family. Our article represents "normal" people who turn to art as an escape from the stress of their daily lives.