1. Question 1: In what ways does
your product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. Differences
Similarities
Fan effect
Simple
used on her
masthead
hair
Font colour
scheme is
Special ‘300th’ red, black and
issue number white
clearly shown
on the front Similar main
cover image
Interview cover
line Pull out
quote
What’s inside
the magazine
Name printed
in bold, in
Price labelled centre under
on the front the main
image

3. Differences
Similarities
Fan effect
Simple
used on her
masthead
hair
Similar main
image
What's inside
the magazine
Name printed
in bold, in
centre under
the main
image
Interview cover
line
Special
edition on
the front
Font colour
scheme is Price labelled
black and on the front
white

4. Differences
Similarities
Date is in the
Simple corner
Contents Title
Similar
images of
Headings an artist
splitting up and a band.
what is inside
the magazine
Images have
cover lines
Font colour
scheme is
black, red,
grey and
White
white
background

5. Differences
Similarities
Fan effect
Simple
used on her
Contents title
hair
Black
2 simple background
images used on
the contents
page
Similar
Heading for the
images of an
sort of things
artist and a
inside the
band.
magazine
Font colour
scheme is Images are at a
black and slant
white

6. Differences
Similarities
Colour
Artists Name
scheme is
at the top of
black red and
the page
white.
One image Big Font
used in the used on the
corner of the first letter of
page the
paragraph
Page numbers Pull out
used quotes used
Magazine
Pull out quotes
logo used in
in different
the corner of
colour than
the page.
other text.

7. Differences Colour scheme
Similarities
Artists Name at
the top of the is black, pink
page and white
One image
used in
the corner
of the
page Pull out
quotes
Big Font used
used on the
first letter of
the
paragraph Pink font
used in the
Page interview
numbers
used
Different colours
Black Pull out quotes in different to show which on
background colour than other text. is the question
and the answer

8. My magazine uses the forms and conventions of real media products such as ‘Q’. This media
product and my media product have very similar layouts with the simple mast head, cover
lines, main image and very little text on the cover. This is because the image itself draws the
reader in because of the eye contact made with the model, and also because the colours are
bright more people would be drawn to it because they may be fascinated to the colours. I
feel that the fact that the artists name is on the front cover really draws the reader in
because from my perspective if I see some-one’s name for example Beyonce I would be
interested on it even though I would recognise her face if she was on the cover. I think that
this makes my magazine look interesting because of the information on the cover as it may
intrigue my target audience to read my magazine.
I named my magazine ‘Label UK’ because I felt that the name was more feminine than just a
letter or some of my other ideas for example; ‘New Sound’ or ‘WSK’. I chose to use this font
because i felt that because of the fancy writing it would draw my target audience in because
males wouldn’t really look at the font and think that this was a males music magazine, they
would automatically think it was a females music magazine.
I thought that the name ‘Label UK’ was suited to this sort of magazine because there are
record labels in the music industry and also because my target audience is females I thought
that label could also imitate the use of labels on clothing which is more feminine than it is
masculine.
I feel that I have challenged the conventions of other media products because some other
music magazines for example ‘Fader’ as the front cover is a plain simple cover with a main
image with only a couple of cover lines, which makes the cover look empty and not very eye
catching where as mine is full with information but obviously not too much that it was over
crowded.

9. I felt that I had to chose a
feminine colour scheme for my
magazine to fit my target
audience to make sure that it
would stand out to them and
draw them in.
I also feel that the colours
matched the images that I took
because of the white clothing and
white background, and the dark
hair and the rosy cheeks.
I think that the colours I chose
went well because the dark
colours draw the readers in
because it’s different than most
magazines with the white
backgrounds and black writing, so
I thought that I would give it a bit
of a change to normal and try and
catch the readers eyes with the
bold colours.