This document summarizes how the media product, a magazine, uses and develops conventions from real music magazines like Billboard. Key conventions adopted from Billboard include placing the masthead in the center at the top, having the main artist image centered and filling the page, positioning the cover line in front of the image, and including page numbers by images. The contents page similarly uses dominant images, headings in colored boxes, and consistent fonts. Double page spreads follow conventions like a large headline image and pull quotes to draw readers in. Overall, the magazine takes established magazine conventions and applies them to develop a cohesive format.

1. As media evaluation
Question 1.
In what way’s does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of a real Media Product.
By Abbi Graydon

2. To help me design my own magazine I This is my front cover for my
did research on other magazines to magazine.
give me inspiration. I had to find well
braded music magazines and analyse
them to find the major conventions. I
looked at the likes of NME, Q and
Billboard. I took some of the
conventions used in these magazines
and put them into my magazine.

3. I decided to base my
magazine around
Billboard as I wanted
my magazine to look
similar.
Like Billboard I have
got the major
conventions.
Masthead, cover line,
main image and
essential information.
I found that the convention was used on the
majority of Billboard magazines was that they Also the majority of Billboard magazines
had placed the masthead in the center at the has the artist in the center of the page
top of the page. This draws the readers and making it so it takes the whole page
attention to the name of the magazine. up. Also on my magazine I used the
convention, of having the cover line
directly in front of the centre image, like
on this Billboard magazine.

4. Again I used Billboard to give
me inspiration and some
ideas as to how to design my
contents page.
I kept my font the same
from the masthead on my
front cover for the
‘contents’.
I used the convention of having a I also had page numbers on the
dominant image on the page images, this is so the reader can
which is the biggest image, then I easily locate the story that the
had another image but much images belong to. I also split my
smaller. information up with coloured boxes
and headings like Billboard has
done on this contents cover.

5. For my double page spread I
had the conventions of
having a dominant image. A
headline, pull quotes.
The colour used on my double
page spread will draw the
readers attention making
them read my pull quotes
which will entice the readers
to continue reading my
My magazine follows the usual conventions
article. Many magazines such
of a magazine as it is split into sections and it
as billboard does this to sell
is mainly text led but with a dominant image
magazines and the stories.
which balances out the text and doesn’t
make it look to dense in text.