Luke Brierley

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

Here is an example of a masthead, which is a convention of music magazines, showing how I have followed conventions.

These are coverlines, used to advertise the content inside the magazine. I have developed this by having a subtitle underneath.

Here is the main coverline, apart from the masthead it contains the largest text on the page.

Another convention of magazines is to have a banner. I only made it small so more could fit on the page.

I have included a puff to add more to the magazine and fill up the page.

I have challenged convention by not including a skyline, something that is usually on a magazine.

The masthead is in the corner of the page but smaller this time as this is the contents page. There is also a page number right in the corner of the page.

Here is the title of the page, “CONTENTS”. It is bigger than the rest of the text on the page.

Main image is bigger than the rest of them, and relates to the image on the front cover. This challenges conventions of actual magazines as they aren’t usually the same.

Page numbers are really big at the side of the featured articles. However in the regular content section, they are smaller as they aren’t as important as the featured articles.

Another convention of magazines is page numbers on the photos, as shown here.

The title of the page is a quote from the article, as is a convention in most music magazines.

For the article I recorded a six minute long interview with Matt and wrote it out onto the page. A drop cap has also been used at the start of the interview.

The main image takes up a whole page and some of the second page, which develops on the usual conventions of a music magazine.

Here is another page number, however this time in the bottom corner of the page.