This document summarizes how the media product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. It discusses 9 elements: including a barcode and title at the top of the front cover, an interview double page spread, a contents page listing articles and page numbers, a consistent color scheme, featuring real artists, creating layout mockups beforehand, and including free posters to promote sales. The document explains how each element follows conventions of real music magazines to make the media product feel authentic.

1. 1) In what ways does your media product use , develop , or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (I.e.
Of music magazine)
Below is the list of the 9 elements that I will be writing about to answer
this question .
Bar code
Title
Interview
Contents page
Colour scheme
People
Layout
Extras
Posters

3. Bar code
I have added a bar code to the bottom of my
magazine , the reason I have added a bar code to my
magazine is because it makes my magazine look more
authentic . Typically magazines have the barcodes in a
corner (usually the bottom right) which is why I have
positioned my barcode in the bottom right as this is a
typical convention to all magazines not just music
ones.

4. Title
The title to my magazine is the biggest font on the front cover and is
located at the top of the page. I have made the font with no main fill to it
, just a coloured outline , I think it gives it more effect this way as it stand
out very clearly and will grab the audience’s attention as soon as they look
at the magazine. Also I feel that my magazine front cover is quite pact’d so
by making the font with just an outline it doesn't clash with the rest of my
cover.

5. Interview/Extras
For my double page spread I included an
interview with artist ‘Roxxxan’ , the interview
took up the majority of the two pages . The
reason I included an interview is because
typically music magazines include interviews
with artists that represent the genre of their
magazine. I would include my interview as an
extra as well because instead of making up an
interview with someone off the top of my head
I managed to have a real interview with the
rapper ‘Roxxxan’ during her sound check for her
show in the evening , i contacted her myself and
arranged everything too. It was a good way to
research for my magazine as it fits well with my
target audience and as its a real interview it is
what they want to read. After the interview I
attended the show in the evening where I then
managed to get photographs of her performing
too which I also used in my magazine.

6. Contents Page
For my contents page i feel like I followed a regular
layout for a general contents page , I have the
information of the content on the right side of the page
and next to each sentence there is a page number . The
colour scheme for my contents page follows the same
scheme as my front cover I made sure of this because i
feel like overall a magazine should follow the same
scheme for the majority of it. The rest of my contents
page is made up of pictures and writing . I do think i
could have made my contents page look better however
I had some trouble accessing my work from school at
home therefore I had to re do the majority of the
contents page.

7. Colour scheme
For my colour scheme I used the colours purple ,
orange , blue ,yellow , red , green and black.
For my front cover and my contents page I used
the colours purple orange and blue , I dont know
why I chose these 3 colours , as I was creating the
pages these colours were the three I felt best
suited the pages and they seemed to work well
with each other and also the photos I used.
I changed my colour scheme for my double page
spread to yellow , red and green. The reason I
changed the colour scheme for the DPS is
because when I used my original colours ( purple
orange and blue) they did not work well with the
colour of my images therefore I changed them to
work with the colours of my images.

8. People
I included 4 artists in my
magazine , 2 of them being
famous artists , another being
a unknown artists and then
for my last person I used my
friend . I'm lucky enough to
know a few famous people
which allowed me to have real
artists in my magazine. The
main artist in my magazine is
rapper ‘Roxxxan’ my main
photo on the front cover is
her and my double page
spread is also her. The girl
group Stooshe who i used are
for posters in the magazine
along with my friend Chris.
The other artists ‘Milks’ /Elz is
used for a competition in my
magazine. All my artists
feature on my front cover.

9. Layout
I knew exactly how I wanted my magazine to be set out. I drew up
a sketch for my DPS and my contents page. As you can tell I
followed my mock ups when making the final piece of work . For
my front cover instead of a sketch I done it on the computer as I
felt it needed to be more detailed than a drawing as the first thing
you see when you pick up a magazine is the front cover therefore
it has to be very detailed and organised.
I think making mock ups definitely helped as it made it easier to
create my final pieces of work as I already knew what the page
would look like and what it was going to include.
I think my layout follows a regular music magazine layout in the
sense that the double page spread is an interview ect.

10. Posters
I included free posters in my magazine
and made it very clear on the front of
my magazine as you can see. I think it is
important to include posters within the
magazine as alot of people are
interested in the posters and some
people only buy magazines to collect
the posters of artists ect. The reason i
advertised the posters on the front
cover is because having ‘Free posters’
on the front of the magazine is a good
way to get people to buy your product
as they feel they are getting more for
there money .