The document discusses how the media product, a pop/chart magazine, uses and develops conventions of real pop/chart magazines. The magazine uses a consistent black, white, pink, and blue color scheme to make navigation easier, unlike many magazines that have random mixed colors. The layout aims to include a lot of information while still being tidy. The cover, contents page, and article layout follow conventions of pop magazines. The only convention challenged is the simplified color scheme. Photos are credited and make eye contact, as is typical in magazines.

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

2. Colour scheme.
My magazine doesn’t break many conventions. It is a pop/ chart
magazine, how ever unlike most pop/chart magazines my colour
scheme isn’t so random or mixed up. Instead I went with black, white,
pink and blue to keep the magazine more organized and easier for the
reader to navigate through.

3. Layout
Some pop/chart magazines can look a little to cramped making it
harder to read or to focus on one thing at a time. So with the layout of
my magazine I made sure it was tidy, but also had lots of information
and lots of things going on at the same time. So like most pop
magazines I followed similar conventions to other pop/chart magazine
layouts.

4. COVER
With the cover of my magazine I was inspired by other pop or/and
chart magazines, so the conventions of the cover are similar to them.
The only thing that may have broken conventions of a pop magazine
was again the colour scheme that didn’t have as many colours as
most pop magazines. But this was intended, so that the magazine
would look more tidy even with lots of information on it.

5. Contents
The contents page in my magazine matches the colour scheme on the
cover of the magazine and the mast head is also printed again on the
contents page. This follows most pop/chart magazine conventions and
links the magazine together and gives it more of its own theme.

6. Article
My article again follows conventions and has a similar layout to most
magazine articles not just pop or chart magazines. The colour scheme
ties in with the cover and contents page. I have a bold title including
the artists name and smaller headlines that appear through the text
(interview). The smaller headlines are quotes from the artist (this
appears in most Q&As).

7. Photos
I have also put credit to the photographer(me) by the edge of the
picture in small print. All the pictures I have used follow conventions
they make eye contact with camera to connect with viewers.