The document discusses how the author's media product uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. Some conventions it follows include: - Featuring a solo artist on the front cover with the price, issue number, and date. - Using consistent color schemes throughout the magazine. - Including page numbers, headings, and brief descriptions on the contents page. - Using bold headings and consistent colors on the double page spread. - Placing quotes between text to break it up on double page spreads. - Having an oversized first letter to start articles.

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

2. Front cover First of all my front cover has one main image which is the norm for the majority of music magazines. My image is of a solo artist but images of bands are also used on front covers. My front cover has a colour scheme which runs throughout the magazine in my contents page and double page spread, when researching magazines i noticed that this was similar to Q magazine in particular with their main colour being red and my main colour being blue.

3. Front cover The price, issue number and date is another common feature that i found in other music magazines. However my front cover challenges forms and conventions of music magazines as it doesn’t have a bar code, i did add the bar code underneath the word ‘Hit’ but i felt that it looked out of place so i decided not to add it on.

4. Contents page My contents page uses forms and conventions of real media products in several ways: it has the page numbers in big bold writing on the pictures to show which page articles on those artists/bands can be found, it has the article heading next to the page numbers and a brief description of what the article is about underneath which is a common feature on magazines like Q. The colour scheme is the same as the front cover and there is one main image followed by 2 smaller images.

5. Double page spread – My double page spread consists of a big bold heading which is found in music magazines because it catches the attention of the reader, the colour scheme is again carried through with the main colour of my magazine being the colour of Emma’s jacket. I have included a Quote in orange writing which is another colour that has been used throughout.

6. Double Page spread I have placed the quote after one of the answers from the interview because i noticed that the quotes were normally placed in between bits of text to break it up. A final convention of double page spreads that i added was the over sized first letter of the article, i noticed that on every single double page spread that i looked at the first letter was over sized so i did that too .