1. 1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
When I began my research for my front cover I looked at many different current music
magazines which give me an idea of symmetry, balance and Guttenberg’s principle and rule
of thirds. I looked at the way in which different magazines constructed their front covers and
the different designs.
My magazine has a house style which consists of 4 colours, red, black, grey and white. This
likens my magazine to the magazines I researched as most magazines stick to a house style
of 3 or 4 colours. This ensures the magazine looks professionally designed and consistent
throughout. I think my masthead ‘Riff n Rhyme’ works well with my magazine as it is in a
funky style, this works well with my genre of magazine as the genre is R ‘n’ B with some
Rock. The masthead looks quite fresh and modern which ties in with this genre of music. The
words Riff n Rhyme represent both genres, Riff being something that is played on a guitar
which represents rock music well, and Rhyme being a main component of R ‘n’ B music.