1. Question 1
• In what way does your media product use ,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products? (i.e. of real music
magazines)

2. The Masthead is at the top left hand
corner of the page and takes up about The genre Of R&B
¼ of the page because it promotes because the common
the magazine and it influences sales theme for R&B rappers
from the public. is to be represented as
quite serious and
urban.
Fonts are used to
• black and white
create a graffity-style
suggests
look.
seriousness
• Drake is the
• the model is
featured article in
looking away from
the magazine, so
the camera to
his image and
suggest distance
name dominate the
and remoteness
front cover.
• The baseball cap
• Other artists are
and earphones are
listed. These are big
emblematic of
names in the
urban youth
industry. The
purpose of doing
this is to use their
success to create
more sales for the
magazine – almost
like an Barcode is a common feature
endorsement used on the front cover on all
magazine which contains the date
and price of the magazine.

3. The main colours for my
I have also used a Contents are black and
subheading on my red , I used them in a
contents page order black then red.
which is linked to Again I used black and
my double-paged- white colour scheme to
relate it with the front
spread. The
cover and also the genre
subheading are of the magazine
useful because they
give a brief
explanation on what Picture for my
the page will be contents page is
about. of an artist who
is part of the
YMCMB group, I
In my Contents used the layout
page I used words of another rnb
like Exclusive and front cover
used # as it is a
common feature
which teenagers
use , this makes it
more influential
to my target
audience.

4. The people in the I also used a Dropped Capital in
picture are also artists my double page spread as it is a I ensured
which are on the front common feature used in many
Double Page spreads. that the
cover
Dps will be
The pictures I in the style
used in this of
double-page- newspaper
spread are article and
both in the
will have
same place
but at
columns.
different
angles, I used
this because it
is common
feature in
which many
magazines
use.
Background
mage is also
he artists in
he magazine The use of page numbers and even numbers are
always on the left , I have also made sure the
name of my Magazine is on every page. This has
been used in magazines like KERRANG and nme.