The document discusses how the media product, a magazine called "Metal Beats", uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. It summarizes that the magazine name, font, and color choices follow conventions by using terms related to rock music. While the front cover image of a female model challenges conventions which usually feature male bands, her clothing still aligns with a rock artist. The contents page and double-page spread layout and styles also generally follow conventions, though the contents image could better represent a rock artist.

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

2. My Front Cover
The name of my magazine follows conventions of real music
magazines as I have chosen to create a rock magazine, the
name of my magazine is ‘metal beats’ the word metal relates
to the genre of music my magazine is based on and the word
beats is related to music. The font used for the name metal
beats also follows conventions for a rock magazine as the
font is informal and therefore attracts the young target
audience; the colour used also follows conventions as I have
used red which usually represents danger which is related to
rock music

3. My Front Cover
I took my influence for the font
and colour of the magazine name
from the existing magazine
Kerrang. My front cover
challenges usual conventions of a
rock magazine as the image used
is of a young girl with blonde hair.
The usual convention for a rock
magazine would be a man or
maybe a male band who look
scary, however the female model I
have used is wearing a leather
jacket with a striped shirt and
heavy black eye makeup and
therefore does follow the
convention of a rock artist.

4. My Front Cover
For the front cover I used two Q magazine covers
and one vibe magazine cover, from the three I
used each one used the same house style of red
black and white which is where the influence
came from for my own house style on the front
cover. I think I have been successful in following
conventions for a rock magazine for my front
cover as the house style matches and the fonts
used are informal.

5. My Front Cover
The influence of the style of my front cover
came from the image below of an existing
NME cover, I have used a similar layout with
the cover lines and similar spacing.

6. Contents Page
The contents page I have created is a similar style
to the front cover as both use the same house
style. The name of the magazine is the same and
the title ‘contents’ uses an informal font in a
similar way to the masthead and also uses the
colours black and red which follows conventions of
a rock magazine as black and red usually represent
something dark and scary.

7. Contents Page
The fonts used for
the list of pages on
the contents are
more formal, this
follows conventions
of magazines as its
important
information that
needs to be easy to
read and not in an
informal font.

8. Contents Page
The image used on the contents page does follow usual
conventions for a rock magazine as it’s a male model who
is dressed in an indie fashion which follows conventions of
a male rock artist I have also used another image of the
female model and she is dressed like a rock artist and
therefore this follows conventions. However with the
contents page image I think I could have been more
successful following conventions of a male rock artist by
using someone who looked a bit scarier and wasn’t smiling
on the image as this doesn’t represent a rock artist very
well.

9. Double Page Spread
The double page spread I have created for my
magazine follows the same house style as the
rest of the magazine and therefore follows
the usual conventions for a rock magazine.
The double page spread follows conventions
in the layout as one full side is filled with an
image of the artist and the other side
includes the article with a pull quote which is
usual for a double page spread article. The
image I have used on the double page spread
follows conventions as it’s a large image of
the artist who has a direct mode of address
which entices the reader. The article itself
follows conventions also as it’s a live
interview where the interviewer’s speech is in
a red font and the artists is in black.