1) The magazine uses and develops forms and conventions of real media products by copying stylistic elements like fonts, poses, layouts, and color schemes from magazines like Q and Rolling Stone. 2) It challenges conventions by using a white background on the cover to represent hope, creating a unique masthead as a homage to Oasis, and including a small side article on the contents page. 3) Differences from other magazines include adding a landscape image, applying a consistent color scheme to the artist's name and a pull quote, and positioning side articles to not block the artist image.