The media product develops conventions of real media products like Vibe magazine by including elements such as a barcode, masthead, selling line, and issue number on the front cover. Images on the cover were also developed to resemble real magazine covers using techniques to improve quality. However, the media product challenges conventions by arranging smaller images in an anti-clockwise position on double page spreads, making it a bit unique compared to typical real media products.

1. Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of a real media product?
My media product has developed into a convention of a real media
product, this is because of the way I followed the conventions of real
media products such as Vibe magazine, as it has the same genre to
my product. For my front cover, I followed the convention of real
media products by developing the barcode, masthead, selling line
and issue number, I went further on in development by adding my
images of my cover-star in a medium close-up shot similar to other
real media products. I used tools such as ‘clone stamp’ and
‘brightness’ and ‘contrast’ to improve my images, which is used in
magazines such as Vibe also to improve the quality. I challenged the
use of real media products by locating small images on my double
page spread in anti-clockwise positions to make the double page
spread a bit more different and unique than other real media products
and the content of images they use.

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