By Brandon Hudson

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media products

Title of the magazine

• The name of my magazine is Noise. When I was thinking of a name for it, I wanted something related to music. Many music magazines have a name witch relates to music such as Total Guitar or DJ Times for example. However some of them have odd names such as magazines like Big Cheese, where cheese has nothing to do with music, or Kerrang, what is a Kerrang? Yet somehow that magazine is very popular. • The reason I made the name of my magazine relate to music is to tell

the regular person it’s a music magazine and to not confuse people.

Title font and style

• The title font I used for my magazine was called A Bite Regular. I chose this one because it looks grainy and rough, which are connotations associated with rock. So I have followed this particular convention because if I went against it would turn off fans of rock music as they would see he magazine as a betrayal of their culture and for them they will be entering out of their comfort zone. E.g. you won’t see a pink and brightly coloured rock magazine as it doesn’t fit. • So in order for my magazine to be a rock music one it had to be a

particular style to fit.

Mise-en-scene of the images

• In magazines, photos take place either outside in a nice environment, or in a photo-studio with a white background. I did neither. I took my photos from my inside my house. This was to get more interesting backgrounds and it also shows the models in a comfortable environment. I also did this to make the images look different to what people expect a photo of the star to be in.

Costumes and PropsThe costumes in my magazine consist of shirts and T-shirts, mostly informal, like a lot of magazines. So I followed that convention. But music magazines often contain music instruments like guitars or microphones which I didn't’t do, this was because I didn't’t have any at home and the reason I didn’t buy any is because I don’t think I will be using them after this project.

Written content

• The article was an interview, many magazines, not just music one have these types of articles. In the article I included alliteration, punctuation and a running gag through the article.• The language in the article is rather formal, but

the conversation isn't completely serious in it’s tone. The interviewer laughs, Mortdog makes jokes. Basically I tried to make the interview sound human as opposed to question and answer only, which is what a lot of magazine interviews do.

Music genre and how magazine suggests it• The music genre in my magazine is rock. The way I present it in my

magazine is that it’s a topic that links together these stories of rock stars. The way my magazine talks about it is that it treats it normally, it isn't slagging it off or being cynical of other genres of music, it has its own genre of music to focus on and stays inside its own bubble, it’s like this with other magazines, for example, total guitar doesn’t acknowledge other pop magazines, but it doesn’t say anything bad about them.

layout

• The layout of my front cover (like many rock magazine covers) has a lot of stuff on the front to make it look busy and have lots of content inside. I followed this as it is a trait seen in lots of rock music magazine covers like Kerrang, total guitar, NME, etc.• The layout of my DPS is more neat and tidy, one page has only a

image on it and the other side has the article, a lot of music magazine articles do this as well as some other conventions I have followed like including a pull quote, drop capital, columns and a caption. I followed these conventions because lots print media uses those things and not including them will take away its identity as a print media product.

Contents pageContents pages in rock magazines usually are brimming with lots of content and generally list out a lot. Contents pages are organised in two ways, one is where they order the contents in page numbers, or to sort them out into sections. I chose the former because I think its easier to navigate the articles. On the contents page I included some puffs, which are not common on contents pages. This was to make the articles look more interesting. I did follow other conventions like including images and a subscribe box to look more visually interesting and realistic.