My media product challenges some conventions of teen pop magazines while developing and using others. On the front cover, I used conventions like placing the masthead in the top left and including sell lines, but challenged conventions by using a blue background instead of white. The contents page includes conventions like labeling it "contents" and listing articles down the left side. For the double page spread, I stuck to conventions like including a large artist image and quote, but challenged conventions by placing the image on the left side and adding more smaller images. Overall, I aimed to make the product appealing while also making it unique.

1. Question One

2. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
• I tried to keep the codes and conventions of teen pop music
magazines in mind when creating my front cover, contents
page and double page spread, because it made it more
appealing to the target audience. Despite this, I didn’t want
it to be exactly the same as all the other teen pop
magazines that already exist. To do this, I had to challenge
some of the typical conventions.

3. Front Cover
• For my front cover, I stuck to the convention of placing
the masthead in the top left hand corner and having a
small tag line (‘A passion for pop’) just to the right of it. I
also used a mid shot of my model which is another
convention of magazines, and I put the issue date, issue
number and barcode in the bottom left corner.
• As well as conventions of music magazines in general, I
used some specific conventions of teen pop magazines. I
stuck to the colour scheme of blues and pinks on the
front cover, because these are the colours that a lot of
existing music magazines used and they are popular
with the target audience (teenage girls).
• On the front cover, I used sell lines around the edge of
the page because nearly all other magazines do. To make
it more specific to a pop magazine, I included one about
a competition, one about free gifts and others about
articles featured in the magazine.
• However, most magazines have a white background, but
I decided to use a blue background. I decided to
challenge this convention because although I wanted it
to be similar to other teen pop magazines, I wanted it to
be unique at the same time.
• I decided not to include any pugs or puffs because I felt it
would have made the cover look over crowded and
messy.

4. Contents Page
• There are several conventions of teen pop magazines
and music magazines in general on my contents page.
• One of the most common things to see on a music (or
any) magazine contents page is the word ‘contents’
itself. In a similar way to other magazines that I have
looked at, I put it in the top left hand corner, followed
by a symbol that relates to my specific magazine.
• A key convention of magazine content pages is the
images. In most magazines, they have one large image
of the main artist featured in that issue of the
magazine and then a few smaller images of other
artists mentioned. I kept to convention when creating
my own magazine contents page.
• Another convention is having an editors note/letter. I
included this on my contents page because I felt that
it made it seem more realistic.
• The majority of existing magazines have the contents
list going down the left hand side of the page, which I
decided would be best to do as well because it makes
the page look more professional.

5. Double Page Spread
• One convention of music magazine
double page spreads that I stuck to
is the large image of the artist
being talked about. I used a mid
shot photo of my model/artist,
however I did challenge this
convention by putting it on the left
hand side rather than the right. I
also decided to develop the
convention and add more images.
Although some magazines do this,
it isn’t very common to do it the
way I did. I did this to make sure
my magazine was slightly unique.
• I also included a quote from the
interview which is another code of
magazine double page spreads.
• I have a small introduction and
arranged the text and interview
into 3 columns, which follows the
typical format of magazine double
page spreads.