1. Q1. In What Ways Does Your Media
Product Use, Develop or Challenge
Forms and Conventions of Real media
products?
2. Conventions of a music magazine
• Masthead- Large, original, memorable
• House Style
• Cover Star- takes up the majority of the front cover
• Issue Date
• Barcode
• Price
• Puff Post
• Buzz Words
• Cover lines (Main Cover line)
• Incentive banner
• Page Numbers
• Pull Quote
• Main article
• Main Image
• Features
• Review
• Drop Cap
• Features
• Regular Content
4. Similarities with the magazines making my media using the conventions:
• Large bold headers (title of magazine), contrasting colour, original name, short.
• Cover star takes up the majority of the page
• Both got fairly bright puff posts
• Cover lines majority down to the left side of the page
• Main cover line by itself on the right hand side so it stands out
• Names of artists in bold/capitals to capture the readers attention
• Url of the website on the top of the pages for more access
The way it develops or challenges the conventions:
• An incentive bar at the bottom which also includes other articles in the magazine
• The cover star is in the middle instead of closer to one side
• It has a brick wall behind the cover star instead of being a studio shoot
6. Similarities with the magazines making my media using the conventions:
• Both have a review at the bottom of the page- music related
• Both have the magazine’s name at the top left of the page
• Both have the date/ issue number at the top of the page
• The columns are both on the left hand side and have contrasting colours to stand out
(white, red, black)
• Both have multiple images about what is to come in the magazine
The way it develops or challenges the conventions:
• I do not have a “main image”, they are all around the same size
• I only have 2 main columns and a review box instead of 3 columns
9. Similarities with the magazines making my media using the conventions:
• The image is on the right side taking up the whole or more of the one page
• The title is black, bold, eye catching and memorable- more than just the artists name-may
play with words
• Black, bold drop cap on the first paragraph
• The image looks professional and edited by Photoshop
The way it develops or challenges the conventions:
• Mine is a lot more colourful, where as rolling stones sticks to black and white
• My article is an interview where as the Rolling Stones are on the majority writing about
the artist
• There is one column in Rolling Stones, where as mine has three.
• Mine has the page number clear in the corner where as Rolling Stones have left it out.
• My interview has a pull quote in the middle of the column where as Rolling Stones hasn’t
