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

3. The title of the magazine genre wise suggests a rock/pop magazine, my target audience who I received feedback from agreed and said that it definitely suggests rock.

4. The title suggests from the first glance that the magazine will be about music because of the word “Sound”.

5. I have kept the title pretty simple so as not to be too different from the other unsigned music magazines in the world.

7. Title font and style The title fonts are large and informative. The main title stands out as it is a white font and a black background the text is a custom font from Dafont and I think it works really well the audience who gave me feedback agreed that the title worked well. I used the same font for the Title and the Contents heading I think it looks good and is consistent which adds to the professionalism keeping a steady theme throughout most music magazines do this. The style of the magazine is very similar to the average music magazine i have looked through a few music magazines and the contents pages are very similar, I have modelled my contents page on theirs, as following the conventions of already successful is a good ideas as it obviously works. The choice of font suggests that it’s simple and easy to read.

8. The written content in my article used a professional journalistic tone which has a mixture of slang chatty text with journalistic accuracy at the same time. Which is the kind of style that you find in music magazines. The Article is about the making of the band and how the band came about to be what it is today, also gives some pointers to new bands starting out, which is the focus in a lot of unsigned magazines, although not just in unsigned magazines, mainstream magazines also like to focus on this. That is the kind of article that normal professional music magazines would publish. Especially magazines specialising in the unsigned genre. Written Content

9. Music Genre and how my magazine suggests it My magazine suggests the music genre of Mainly rock. It does this in a number of ways, the main way being the background and text, black background suggests rock whereas a colourful background would suggest light rock. Unsigned magazines usually have darker backgrounds. So I think that my magazine fits in well with the unsigned magazine community. At the same time it stands out as it is unique and individual. The artists pose suggests a kind of ‘new kid on the block’ look, the band in general look new but professional.

10. The layout of my magazine works well. My target audience who I received feedback from, said that the layout works well and looks professional. They layout is similar to many actual music magazines. Especially little touches like the editors comments on the contents page and the page numbers on the photo’s to let people know what images are to do with which article. The picture of the CD with the free CD inside is good . Also the barcode and issue number helps to make the front page good. Layout

11. Contents page The contents page works well. The majority of the target audience said that the contents page helped to encourage them to read the rest of the magazine. The contents page is modelled on contents pages from other successful magazines. I figured, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it. To make a contents page work in a magazine it needs to be taken in at a glance and can’t be too different, I feel the contents page in my magazine can be easily taken in at a glance and is different but not too different. The contents page is similar to other magazine’s but what makes it unique is the pictures with the page numbers on and the editors comments.

12. Overall my media product uses the conventions of real media products. It Also develops the use of real media product conventions. It also challenges some of the conventions as by developing the conventions it also challenges them as it shows ways in which they can be done differently. However is it not that radically different as a lot of conventions need to be the same, as the same sells people will recognise similar conventions and notice the differences and tweaks and think this is good as it does things the same but different. Overall