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:

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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