My media product, a music magazine called Download, uses and develops the forms and conventions of real punk rock music magazines. It includes elements like a prominent masthead, cover images of bands, taglines, and barcodes. The contents page and article layouts also mirror conventions with band photos, editor's letters, and categorized article sections. The double page feature article employs conventions like quotes, prose text, and an outdoor full band shot composed using the rule of thirds. Overall, Download adheres closely to the established forms and conventions of existing popular punk rock music magazines.

1. Evaluation Q1
In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. • In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
When creating my music magazine, I was working within
the genre of rock; more specifically, punk rock. This is
one of the biggest genres at the moment and I
researched it thoroughly. I looked at
Hook
current music magazines that
Masthead Cover lines
feature punk rock music and Quotes
Tag line
deconstructed them to Picture of Bar code
find out the conventions full band Competition Eye catching
of this genre. image
Prose Interesting Editorial
fonts profile “Including…”
Colour
Interview
scheme

3. Hook of free things Prominent masthead
Main article
with sub
heading
Smaller
cover
lines
List of
bands Front cover of my magazine: Download Front cover of current popular magazine: Rock Sound
included
The front cover of my magazine has a number of similarities to a well known, big selling rock magazine’s; the
main image used is of the whole band, with the lead singer standing in front of the rest of the members. Both
magazines use hooks and a list of the bands included inside. Both main cover lines are the biggest text on the
page, and have a number of smaller cover lines. Both include a barcode as this is an important convention of
a magazine.

4. Editor’s letter
Full band
shot
Article
Information
categories
about
publisher
Contents page of my magazine: Download Contents page of current popular magazine: Rock Sound
My magazine’s contents page has a number of similarities to the contents page of Rock Sound; both are laid out
in a clear and professional way, both feature the cover band in a full body shot and both include information
about the magazine and its web pages. I have also included the conventions of a contents page, incorporating
an editorial profile explaining what is in the issue, article titles in sections and the same colour scheme as the
front cover.

5. Outdoor shot
Rule of thirds: each point
is situated on one of the
members’ faces or eyes,
to draw attention to
them
Introductory
paragraphs
The double page spread for
Download has similarities to
Rock Sound’s double page
spread. They both use
quotes and prose rather
than broken down text, and
have an introductory
paragraph to give context to
the readers. They both use a
full band shot in an outdoor
scene, to add atmosphere to
the article. Whereas Rock
Quotes from Sound used “The new sound
lead singer of sacrifice” as a title,
Download used a quote from
the band; “We want to be as
big as You Me At Six”.
Prose rather than
broken down text

6. Outdoor shot
Rule of thirds: each point
is situated on one of the
members’ faces or eyes,
to draw attention to
them
Introductory
paragraphs
The double page spread for
Download has similarities to
Rock Sound’s double page
spread. They both use
quotes and prose rather
than broken down text, and
have an introductory
paragraph to give context to
the readers. They both use a
full band shot in an outdoor
scene, to add atmosphere to
the article. Whereas Rock
Quotes from Sound used “The new sound
lead singer of sacrifice” as a title,
Download used a quote from
the band; “We want to be as
big as You Me At Six”.
Prose rather than
broken down text