This document discusses how a student media product uses conventions from real music magazines. It includes conventions such as including a barcode, price, and issue date on the cover; listing additional contents on the bottom; featuring full-page pictures in double page spreads; having the main article focus on a musician with text overlaid on their picture; organizing the contents page numerically with subheadings; and relating the cover picture and band name. The student analyzed how their magazine incorporated standard formatting techniques from magazines like NME, Kerrang, and others.

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

2. • My magazine uses a variety of different
conventions of a music magazine. Some of the
more common and basic conventions my
magazine includes are things as simple as a
barcode on the cover of the magazine and
also a price and a date for which the magazine
is issued.

3. • Some other conventions I used are as follows:

4. • This is a convention of certain music
magazines, having a line at the bottom of the
magazine listing some more content of the
magazine. Kerrang also use it in their
magazine as shown here.

5. Another convention I used in my
magazine was to have a picture
taking up a full page of the double
page spread as show here in my
magazine and then in the NME
double page spread.

6. • Another convention is that the main body of
the contents is of a musician. The picture sits
behind the text, and the musician looks at the
camera. This is reflected in other magazines as
shown I these 3 magazines.

7. On the contents page there is
always some kind of layout for
the pages in numerical order.
There are also sub-headings in
between each section of the
contents.

8. • Another convention is that on each cover
there is some connection between the picture
and title of the band or the person in it.