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

2. Production
 I used the internet to check for big-name
music magazines such as Kerrang!, Q
magazine and NME to see how their
magazines are portrayed.
 I created my music magazine using
mainly photoshop to match up to the
quality of real music magazines.
 I based the layout of my cover, contents
and 2 page spread on certain rock
magazines that inspired me.

3. Camerawork
 Here are a few examples of photos I
used in my music magazine:

5.  I used my IPhone camera to take all photos in my
magazine.
 I took them from different angles to give them
different effects (i.e. low angle, close up…). I
thought I’d do this because as I flicked through the
pages of famous rock magazines, I noticed that
their photos were taken from different angles, etc.
 I took a wide range of photos; different angles of the
same photos. This helped me choose the best
photos.
 I used the best technology at my disposal to get the
best possible photo quality I could.

6. Conventions of music
magazines Short and catchy
Distorted and large sell line.
masthead: represents
rebellious rock genre.
Main image is
large and takes up
Content photos most of the page:
used to give shows the lead
readers a small singer/guitarist of
taste of what’s Muse performing
inside, possibly live.
making them want
to buy the
magazine and see
if they’re Large and in-your-
interested. face coverline.

7. Layout
 The main image slightly covers
the masthead, just like in most
magazines I analysed. This is
because the magazine is so
famous, you only need to see a
few letters from it’s title and it’s
shape/design to recognise it.
 The taglines are scattered around
the main image, using different
fonts.
 I got the layout idea from two
different covers: a Kerrang!
magazine cover and an NME
magazine cover. They have
generally the same type of genre
in their magazine so I thought it
would be relevant to use them as
a template.

8. Layout
 In the top left-hand corner of
my contents page, I left an
“editors message”, directed at
the people who have bought
my magazine. I saw this
feature in a few magazines
such as Kerrang! and thought it
would be interesting to put in
my magazine.
 I tried to use as many different
fonts as possible without going
too over the top with it; I
basically used a different font
for each bands
name, depending on their
genre (distorted for heavier
bands)

9. Layout
 I based the layout of my 2 page spread on a “Rock Sound” music
magazine’s 2 page spread.
 One page has pull-out-quotes with a photo of a band member
playing an instrument. Rock magazines that I analysed had this
feature so I thought it would be good to include in my magazine.
 The other has the lead singer posing next to paragraphs of text
which talk about him and his band. This is the first time I used a
photo of a band member posing, so I thought it would be a good
idea to use it next to text that is talking about them.
My 2 page spread Rock Sound 2 page spread

10. Focus Group
 I used a focus group to evaluate my final
magazine draft, hoping to use any
constructive comments to improve my final
product.
 This allowed me to do the best I can with
the technology at my disposal to get the
same effects for my magazine as big name
magazines i.e. Q magazine, NME and
Kerrang!
 I published my focus group on my
blogspot.