The document discusses the conventions used and challenged in the design of a pop/chart magazine called "House of Song". Key points: - The color scheme of black, white, pink and blue is cleaner than most magazines but still links the different elements. - The cover features the masthead, artist photo and colored fonts used for impact. It's inspired by other magazine covers. - The contents page matches the color scheme and includes the masthead to link the pieces. It intentionally leaves out some typical elements to avoid clutter. - The article features a colored headline, quotes and clean photos to be consistent yet draw the eye, as seen in other magazines. Page numbers also link it to the contents

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

2. Colour scheme.
For my magazine I tried not to
break to many conventions but
chose to on a few occasions to
create space or make the
magazine look tidier and easier
to navigate through. 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. COVER
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 for the layout of my
magazine I made sure it was tidy, but also had
enough information and didn’t have to many
things going on at the same time.
On my cover I tried not to break to many
conventions as far as pop/chart magazines go. I
have made sure the mast head is clear at the
top of the magazine with a smaller heading
underneath that reads ‘the party starts here’ (I
did this to make the magazine more appealing
to a younger audience) I made all the headings
and headlines stand out from the photo behind
them by using large fonts or putting a stroke of
colour around the edge of the font.

4. COVER
With the cover of my magazine I
was also 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 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 and clean. I
also made sure I took the photo
of the artist with a white
background so that the writing
would stand out even more and
so would the artist.

5. COVER
For the colour scheme on
the cover I also
enhanced the artists
make up to match the
writing e.g. the pink
lipstick. I did this to even
out the colour of the
photo so that it wouldn’t
look to dull against such
bright colours the fonts
were made up of.

6. Contents
The contents page in my magazine
matches the colour scheme on the
cover of the magazine, I did this to
link the two together and keep the
magazine consistent. I also placed
the masthead from the cover of my
magazine at the top of my contents
page ,again I did this to link them
together. I also put the heading
for ‘contents’ underneath it to
make it clear to the reader this
was the contents page.

7. CONTENTS
I did break one or to conventions on my contents
page however. Not all magazines have an editors
letter but It seemed unnecessary for me to add an
editors letter to my contents page as my magazine
has a visually strong theme. I also chose not to
include an editors letter because it would make the
page look cramped and I purposefully wanted it to
look neat and clean with no cramping. Also my
magazine is aimed at young teenage audience who
are most likely more interested in the photos of the
artist or are scanning the columns for their favourite
artists interview.
An other convention I may have broke was not
putting a quote with large photo of the featured
artist ‘Poppy’ but again this was done to avoid
making the page look cramped. I also did this
because I wanted the photo to speak for its self (and
make the reader more curious)

8. Article

9. ARTICLE
For my article I have looked at popular pop/chart
magazine articles and have tried to stick to the
conventions. I have placed a quote among the text
to draw attention to the important of that particular
part of the article. I saw in actual magazines the did
this a lot especially in Q&As. Like the rest of my
magazine I have made the photo look polished
and clean with a white background.
To make it clear who the Q&A was with I place the
artists name in front of her. I used a bold font with a
blue and pink stoke around each word. (I did this so
the colour scheme would be consistent with the rest
of my magazine) I also placed another quote that is
just passing behind the top of the artists head (I did
this to give the image dimension and draw the
readers attention to the writing behind her)

10. ARTICLE
For my article I also made sure to put my
page numbers at the bottom of each
page. I wrote the Q&A on Poppy Beamish
(the artist in the featured section on my
contents page) I also made sure the page
numbers were the same as the ones that
were labelled next to her name so that the
article would link to my contents page even
more.
The colour scheme is again consistent with
the rest of my magazine, I also included the
‘HOUSE of SONG’ logo in the article (it was
slightly altered to match the ‘ONLINE’
version of the house of so magazine)

11. Photos
For the photographs throughout the magazine I made sure the artists
were making eye contact as many magazines do this, however having
the artist not making eye contact may not be breaking a convention it
would be unusual and the artist may not be able to connect with the
audience in the way they can by making eye contact.