The document discusses how the media product of a music magazine challenges conventions of real music magazines. It creates a magazine called "Encore" that takes ideas from magazines like NME and Q. It uses a bright red font for the masthead and title to stand out like other magazines. The layout includes a large image on the left page and text on the right to be easy to read. The cover uses rhyming text and the inside includes columns, pull quotes, and a rhetorical title to engage readers, drawing from techniques used in magazines like Heat.

1. QUESTION 1: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR
CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS
OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

2. For my media product I have created a music
magazine by taking some ideas from real music
magazines such as NME and Q.

3. For the title of my magazine I have used a font that will
stand out and is easy to read for the readers. The font can
be used for formal and informal purposes which relates to
the audience that I want to focus this on which is
mainstream. I have used pure bright red as from the real
products that I looked on used red I have also used a
black bold outline. At first, I have struggled on the colour
scheme that I want for my masthead from either green or
red but I thought green was for niche audiences. Unlike
from the real product, I have made my E’s italic in order to
make this stand out and I wanted to create the unique
point of how the audiences will recognise such as the Q
magazine, their unique point is the curve on the Q which
makes this noticeable for the readers. I have chosen the
word ‘encore’ as it’s a word for songs to play again which
indicates of my magazine relating to music and songs.

4. The design and layout that I created was partly some
ideas from Q and NME magazines. I find that their layouts
are very different from all the other magazines and are
easy to read. For my double page spread, I wanted the
main image to fill the half at the left as this is where people
would first look at where the texted layout would be at the
right. Also on the contents page I wanted the main subject
of the magazine to be a main image of the band which
was also on the cover. The house style of the product I
produced has rhyming cover lines such as ‘Generation
Humiliation’ in order for the reader to think what it means.
For the Guttenberg principle, I wanted to put my masthead
at the primary optical area where people would identify the
type of magazine it is.

5. For mise en scene, the band wears a green, red and
blue colour to indicate their band is targeted for
mainstream audiences especially with teenagers. I
have also used colour balance on the image by using
hue and saturation in order for this to look
professional and fit in the title. I also wanted to use
rule of thirds were the first row would have the
masthead and probably the eye level of the band.

6. In my written article I wanted the first letter of the word to
be big such as the T’ this is for the reader to easily catch
the section they are reading whenever they forget to and
this is done to make the layout look better with the black
font used. I wanted the columns to be divided into three as
many readers wouldn’t want too much information, using
pull quotes I made this into a red font and into speech
marks where this is one of the most important thing that
fans would want to read. I wanted the title of the article to
be a rhetorical question for the fans who would want detail
and it gives out a lot of things ‘is this the end of FAITH?’
this is made for the reader to interact the information with
gossips and important things of the band. Magazines such
as heat is where I took this idea from, they use a lot of
rhetorical questions which gained them a lot of audiences
with the celebrities which I wanted to do the same.