This document discusses how the author's media product, a hip-hop magazine, both uses conventions from real music magazines and challenges them. The author took elements like boxed lettering and cover photo styles from magazines like Fader and Paper but adapted them. Sell lines were placed like in XXL and contents pages followed Vibe's style but with extra photos and spacing. The double-page spread emulated XXL's black and white colors but with a different layout. Column writing and extra information on articles made the magazine more reader-friendly and distinct from competitors like XXL. Overall, the author drew from real magazines but modified elements and added their own touches to develop and challenge existing forms and conventions.