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

I have shown continuity through the front cover, contents page and double page spread through colour, font and by having the same person on each. This is conventional of music magazines showing my product to develop forms and conventions of real magazines. I have also used the mast head on each product increasing the continuity throughout the magazine; this is also done on MOJO magazine which is of a similar genre and therefore a similar target audience.

 For my double page spread I have my image on one page and article on the other. As shown in comparison to this MOJO double page spread this is a very similar layout. However, they have used a pull quote as the title which I challenged using an also conventional title placing my pull quote mid article.

Overall, my front cover, contents page and double page spread conform to the conventions of a magazine of the Rock genre. This is done on the cover through the use of different fonts and text sizes, a medium close-up image, the use of a plug, barcode and price and the limitation to three colours which are carried through to the contents and double page spread. My contents page conforms to conventions through its column of feature and page numbers, multiple images, also a subscribe information section featuring past covers of the magazine and title including the mast head. These are all conventional of a contents page and share the same colours and fonts as the cover and double page spread. My double page spread also follows conventions and could be seen in an existing rock magazine. It has done this through the continuity of colour over both pages, the used if columns, drop cat, title, stand first and a pull quote. It also follows the same orange theme throughout.