This magazine product uses conventions of real magazines such as: - A masthead at the top of the front cover and contents page - Placement of the barcode, date, price and cover lines on the front cover - Consistent color scheme and fonts throughout - Inclusion of promotional offers, clothing vouchers, and album information - Double page spreads with large images and article layouts using interviews

1. Q1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. Masthead at the top of the page
as this is a convention of a
Front Cover
magazine. I choose the colours
Green and Red because these I positioned the barcode in the top
are bright and eye catching so right hand corner as it filled an empty
they create a strong contrast. I space and would otherwise of
have chosen to stick with this partially blocked the image
colour scheme throughout the
magazine as not to over
complicate the visuals of it Cover lines are place
in a C shape as this is
often done in
I added in a date and price of magazines as this is
the issue as this is conventional how the eye scans
of all magazines over the page
The image I used is a medium close up
and the “Artist” is making eye contact
with the camera this is conventional
for all magazines. I also got a prop
speaker as it is stereotypical of the
Rap genre

3. Contents Page
The masthead is the exact
same colour as the masthead Here i put in a
on the front colour to add promotional offer for
uniformity and consistency to my own magazine,
the magazine this is fairly common
in most magazines
I stuck with the
red and green
colours in my text
as it connotes
consistency with
in the magazine
I inserted a clothing
voucher which is
representational of
the genre of rap
I added a black background to make
the red and green colour increase the
contrast

4. Double page spread
I put “Mashers” album
title at the top of the
page so it is easy to
know what the article
is about
For My double page spread i
firstly added a large image of I used this image as it is
my artist “Masher”. The pose representational of the genre as
and prop in the image rap comes from an urban
connotes that the sofa is background and this is very much
inexpensive to Masher and his what everybody within the
pose shows he is in a position culture would be doing
on power and wealth
I again choose to keep
the font and colour
scheme the same as is
often done with other
magazines. They usually
layout their magazines
around 2-3 colours
I used a drop cap at the start of the
article as this is a convection of I choose the layout of my article
magazines to be an interview and to write it
out in a question and answer
format