2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? My magazine front cover uses conventions of real media products such as the date, masthead, splash, issue number, price, barcode, pug, website address, images and quotes. These are all needed to give information to the reader and also to involve the reader in the magazine and catch the reader’s eye. I think conventional products are needed on every magazine so that it sells and is recognised. The colours used throughout my magazine I think are very conventional as I have used black and white which I think is quite a common colour scheme, I then decided this colour scheme will be to dull and maybe to conventional so I needed another colour to make the magazine stand out more. I choose purple this then made the magazine more appealing to the eye. I also used a website on my front cover I thought this was a good idea as it could be more recognisable and also make the magazine more popular. There is not much information on my front cover as I wanted the image to sell the magazine, there is some information of what in the magazine but I thought using to much writing might bore the reader. The image used on the front of my magazine is quite different from my researched music magazines. I found that most music magazines were bright and vibrant, I decided that I wanted my magazine to be different in this way as I was looking for a more elegant magazine, therefore I think my image has conventional features but for the genre of my magazine I think it is also unconventional. Inspiration
