The document summarizes how the media product, a magazine, uses and develops conventions of real magazines. It discusses using inspiration from other magazines' contents pages, mastheads, titles, barcodes, fonts, and photo styles. While copying conventions to appear like a real magazine, it also challenges some conventions, using fewer photos and softer colors atypical of music magazines to appeal more to its target female audience.

1. Question one.

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

3. What products did I use for
inspiration?

5. This contents page Is what I used The overall mise-en-
the most to develop my magazine scene of the
to fit the usual conventions of a contents is simple
music magazine. and effective, I used
this style within my
design.
Inserting pictures of
young females is what
my audience expected.
Although I challenged
usual conventions of a
music magazine as the
portraits seem to be
professionally taken
rather than live shots.
The contents page used
small and wide columns
to arrange their text
effectively. I copied this
to achieve the usual
conventions of a
Fonts I have used are fairly similar to magazine.
that of the other magazine, I felt this
created something extra to the page,
creating more interest.

6. I challenged the usual I copied some general music I decided to add no other photos onto
conventions of a magazine ideas to class my
my cover as I felt this cheapened the
music magazines magazine as ‘down market’ so it
with the general appeals to my younger audience. overall look, also making it look
colours used. I cluttered.
decided to stick to
three colours white,
black and green.
These gave the
magazine a softer
approach and made
my target audience of
girls fairly obvious.
My magazine can be recognised as a
real magazine due to the professionally
taken photo, Masthead, title and the
I copied this of the NME magazine to
bar code. Which are generally found fill up the space at the bottom of my
on every magazine. magazine and also so my audience can
read what else is within the magazine.

7. I used pull quotes to fit in I copied the style of photograph
with usual conventions of a by placing my model on the left
double page spread, this hand side to allow text to fit on
grabs the readers attention the right side, I photo shopped
and makes them want to the photo to give it maximum
appeal
read more.
I used a big header to catch the readers My magazine can be recognised as a
attention and to follow usual female alternative magazine due to the
conventions of a double page. I used a feminine colours, and fonts and also due
sans serif font to give it a ‘classier’ feel to the amount of female models that the
and more sophisticated. audience can relate to.