Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• My hip hop magazine that I have designed has the appropriate features of what a real media product would have as long as challenge and develop the forms and conventions of the real media products.

My Inspiration

• My inspiration of the Hip Hop magazine that I have created was from the various other Hip Hop magazine’s that I researched in order to have an idea of how my Hip Hop magazine was to be created which would therefore enhance my magazine making it more appealing to the audiences, the magazines that I gained inspiration from are considered to be high regarded and successful Hip Hop magazines which would therefore aid me in looking for the correct information.

Examples the Inspiration

XXL Vibe Hip-Hop King

• By analysing these Hip Hop magazines it meant that I was able to gain an understanding of how Hip Hop magazines are and how I can develop and challenge the forms and conventions as it means that I was able to develop and challenge the media conventions through the use of the masthead, main image, house style.

Masthead• The masthead that has been used in common Hip Hop

magazines such as ‘XXL’ is shown to be at the top of the front cover starting from the left hand side and is also bold. I developed this idea as although I put my masthead at the top of the front cover and is bold, I decided to put it in a centred position as I believe it would give more of an effect and stand out more.

Main Image• For the main image of my magazine front cover I developed my magazine main

image compared to other magazines as for the ‘KING’ magazine it shows a hip-hop artist’s full body showing his stance and also his facial expressions and also it is placed in the centre of the front cover but for my music magazine even though I decided to put the image in the centre of my front cover I challenged the music magazine as I decided to instead of having long shot, I decided to have a mid-shot of my artist therefore expressing his facial expressions more which would reinforce the stereotype more that rappers are intimidating as you see the full emotions in his face.

House Style• For my house style I used a similar house style compared to

the other Hip Hop magazines as they all consist of darker colours such as black, red, dark blue etc. as I decided to use the colours black and grey but I also challenged this by including colours such as Gold to show the wealth of the artist as they’re stereotypically known to be wealthy.

• I also have decided to include in my music magazine the same features that a music magazine would include such as a barcode in the suitable place, a dateline, the price and a suitable relatable hip-hop magazine article as well into my own music magazine as this would give it a realistic feel and be more engaging to the audience reading the magazine as they would see it is professional.