The document discusses how the author's media product, a music magazine, uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. The magazine's color scheme, layout, and content are largely conventional, using colors like black, white, and red that are common in magazines like Q and NME. However, some elements challenge conventions, such as using brighter gold and including additional colors. The front cover features a central image and puffs around the edge, mirroring typical magazine layout. While following conventions in most aspects, the author aims to also introduce some novel elements to challenge expectations.

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

2.  The majority of my music magazine is
very conventional to modern music
magazines, such as Q, NME and also
selections of Kerrang. The colour scheme
I chose to use I believe is the most
conventional part of the magazine, as I
use Black, White and Red as the
foundation for my pages as seen in Q and
NME, although there are some other
elements of colour such as Gold and
Blue, which are not typically seen in this
genre of magazine, but fit well with the
conventional colours
 The colour scheme of my front page
consists mainly of black, compared to the
Q and NME selection, however, there are
elements of dark red that I decided to
use to try and incorporate the codes and
conventions of a typical magazine, whilst
the mainly black colour challenges typical
music magazine colour schemes.
 Another colour I chose to use to stand
out was the gold I used for my main puff/
image anchorage. This kind of colour isn’t
typical in most magazines, although is
seen on occasion, but not in such a bright
shade as I have used. I decided to use
this colour, because, although it
challenges typical conventions, it
challenges them whilst keeping in style
with the magazine and its genre.

3.  The layout of my magazine is also quite conventional, including the subject of the puffs
of information on the front cover. My image is very central, with direct eye contact with
the audience, like most artists on real magazines, with the mast head at the top of the
page, a central anchorage point that stands out amongst the other puffs and the typical
layout of puffs around the edge of the image. This convention is very typical of
magazines like Q and NME, which usually have a similar layout.
Puffs surround artists, all stand out from each
other because they are different colours, unlike
the Q magazine.
Main image has
direct mode of
address
There is a
bold
masthead
signifying
the brand
of the
magazine.
This
masthead
is the
same for
every
edition.
Main
subject/
image
anchorage
stands out
amongst
the rest of
the
information
on the
page.
Puffs surround the main image but do not cover
the face of the artist. All the puffs are also the
same colour, creating a scheme.
Main image
has direct
mode of
address
My
masthead
stands out
from the
rest of the
magazine
and
signifies
the brand
The anchorage on my FrontPage stands out
well, and is also a different colour to the rest of
the puffs on the page, making it more striking

4.  The content I have included on the
front page is very suitable to the
genre of the magazine, covering
subjects like upcoming concerts, the
top albums of the year, exclusive
interviews with existing artists that
my audience like and award
ceremonies.
 These kind of topics are conventional
in magazines such as Q and NME
which were the inspiration for my
own magazine.
 In such magazines, there is a main
artist that is focused on for their
main feature, mine being the up and
coming ‘Melodie’, and also smaller
interviews with other artists about
either their upcoming concerts or
album releases, so there is plenty of
content to appeal to everyone. My
magazine achieves this also, with
interviews with ‘ You Me At Six’ and
‘Nina Nesbitt’.

5.  The contents page to my magazine is one
of the most conventional pages of the
whole magazine. I kept the layout and
colour scheme fairly accurate to the
majority of music magazines as I could,
whilst introducing a few challenges as
well.
 One of the least conventional parts of the
page is the images which have a blue hue
to them, affecting the colour scheme as a
whole.
 On the other hand, I have stuck with the
red, white and black theme that was
present in the front page, creating a house
style.
 I have used the same font to make sure
the theme flows throughout the whole
magazine, like most magazines do, as they
all begin to link in this way.
 The content I have decided to cover in the
contents page is very similar to the kind of
coverage seen in magazines such as Q and
NME, down to the topics of NEWS,
CONCERTS and REVIEWS, as they were
very popular subjects covered in real
magazines.

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