In what ways does your media product use, challenge forms and conventions of real media products

2. This is my music
magazine front cover
which is a rock magazine
aimed at teenagers of
both genders. As my
magazine is targeted at
both genders, the band
that is mainly featured in
my magazine are unisex
and the lead singer is a
women establishing
female empowerment.

3. My media product uses conventions of real
life magazines as the main features included
on my front cover consist of a masthead, a
cover image and cover lines, which all
magazines usually include to catch the eye
of the reader and so that they recognize the
artist featured on the cover.

4. My media product mainly challenges real media products as
the colour scheme in my magazine is very dark making
images and fonts appear brighter to contrast well. I have
challenged conventions by including a wide variety of font
shapes and sizes to infer which texts are the most significant.
For example, ‘Saint Lucinda’ is written in red with sharp points
at the edge of letters implying their importance and edginess
in rock whilst ‘Einstein album out now’ is wider and much
smaller to not draw attention away from the cover image.

5. My cover develops certain conventions as I
have included features that most magazines
aim to include but I have not used too many
features as I did not want the cover to be
too busy, instead I have made sure that I
have filled in blank spaces and the fonts and
images do not overlap the faces from the
image.

6. My music magazine is quite similar to popular
rock magazines such as Kerrang as the colour
schemes are alike with the use of red and
yellow to demonstrate the power and love of
rock and yellow for the puffs to stand out. I
have developed real media products, as I have
not overly edited my front cover image as the
light shining upon their faces is from the light
on a phone and not from special effects.