Forms and Conventions refer to the forms, categories and conventions used to organise and structure the languages of media products.
The form of media text is its shape and structure and the combination of Micro Elements. For example for a Radio Drama: Dialogue, Sound effects, editing and ambiance are used to create it.
The form of the text is instantly recognisable to the audience style.
Style: The style of the text uses the form.
Eg: Shameless on Channel 4 has a particular aesthetic feel that makes it unique within the genre TV Drama, making its style entirely different to another, such as Holby City.
When producing my own magazine cover it is important to think about these key questions:
What category of genre/text is it and how can we identify this?
What can we learn from this text from the front cover?
What codes of conventions does it follow or disobey?
What categories and conventions do we need to consider and use when creating our very own media text?
