In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products?

• My magazine uses a variety of different conventions of a music magazine. Some of the more common and basic conventions my magazine includes are things as simple as a barcode on the cover of the magazine and also a price and a date for which the magazine is issued.

• Some other conventions I used are as follows:

Line of bands

• This is a convention of certain music magazines, having a line at the bottom of the magazine listing some more content of the magazine. Kerrang also use it in their magazine as shown here.

Double page spread

Another convention I used in my magazine was to have a picture taking up a full page of the double page spread as show here in my magazine and then in the NME double page spread.

Cover

• Another convention is that the main body of the contents is of a musician. The picture sits behind the text, and the musician looks at the camera. This is reflected in other magazines as shown I these 3 magazines.

Contents

On the contents page there is always some kind of layout for the pages in numerical order. There are also sub-headings in between each section of the contents.

Titles

• Another convention is that on each cover there is some connection between the picture and title of the band or the person in it.

Layout

• My layout matches what you would expect from a music magazine. For example, title in the top left of the page, main image in the foreground towards the left, quote on the left, clear name of the artist… See the similarities below:

More examples of layout similarities

Logo at the top with the black background, the clear sub-headings at the side of the page, the big picture taking up a large proportion of the page etc.

Even more examples of layout similarities

The image taking up the full page, a clear title for the article, a pull quote from the text, 3 column structure for the writing, the smaller image in the corner etc.

Colours

• The colours in my masthead match the colour scheme of other folk punk magazines as shown above in the ‘masthead’ bullet point. My magazine also has green colours on it matching the connotations we have for the folk genre.

Cover lines

• On my cover page I have a cover line.