1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES
YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
USE, DEVELOP, OR
CHALLENGE FORMS
AND CONVENTIONS OF
REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
By Hoorie begum

2. The conventions that I have followed with my
music magazine is that I have put the
masthead, pictures, and cover lines in the place
that it normally is, I have set out my magazine in
the normal way that a magazine is set out.
Before creating my magazine I did research to
see what the audience would like to see on the
front cover, contents page and double page
spread of my music magazine, and using that
information I made my magazine look
professional.

3. Here Is an example of an
existing music magazine front
cover that I have already
analysed.

5. Here I have compared my music
magazine to an existing magazine to
see if the conventions follow.

6. Masthead – The masthead Main Image – The main image is of
is in big bold writing which the artists, and he is dominating the
makes it stand out from the majority of the page, he is taking up
rest of the magazine, it is in two thirds of the page, and that
a teal colour which isn't a looks good because it is supposed
to be dominating the page. He is
typical convention as they
dressed in a gilet jacket and that
are normally black or red.
matches the conventions of my
However it is still very bold, magazine which is hip hop as that
so therefore it catches the is how they dress. The image is a
audiences attention straight medium close up shot which is
away. The Sell/Cover Lines – The
typical in a music magazine. cover
Main Cover Line – The lines are of other artists and what
main cover line is the will be inside of the magazine. By
artists name, and by doing having the other artists name s on
this we automatically know the front cover it attracts the
who it is that is on the front audiences attention, into wanting to
buy the magazine
page of the magazine. Colour Scheme – There is a
Use Of Pull Quote – The colour scheme going throughput
pull quote is based on a the magazine, it is teal, black and
quote what the artists has dark pink/purple. By doing this I
said and that is what would have made my magazine look very
professional as it isn't just loads of
lure the audience into buying
different colours on the magazine.
the magazine because they
Background – The background
would be intrigued to see colour is teal blended in with white,
what else the artists is going and I have chosen to have it teal
tohas the issue number, and the date it has been released, and that it
It say. and white because it is different, it
a convention as that is on every magazine. It also has the price of the matches with the masthead colour
issue and a barcode, and that is normal as well as every magazine that I have chosen. It looks simple,
has to have the price on the front. but still very appealing.

7. Here Is an example of an
existing contents page that
I have already analysed.

9. Here I have compared my
contents page of my music
magazine to see if it follows the
conventions.

10. Masthead – The masthead is Colour Scheme – The
the word contents, and I have colour scheme is teal, and
but it in the same colour as the black, and this runs
front page of the masthead on throughout the whole of the
the front cover, and this was contents page, and by doing
done because I wanted it to this it makes the page look a
match, and make it look lot more sophisticated and
professional. professional.
The page may be quite
Main Image – I don't have one
plain, but the colours is what
main image however I have two
makes the page stand out,
images on the page, and you
the colours are quite bright,
cant properly see the faces of
and that makes it eye
the artists, and this creates the
catching. Letter - I have also
Editors
illusion of mystery. The two
images are much smaller than got an editors letter just to
the image on the front page as say what I want you to get
on the contents page they from the magazine. This is
aren't as dominating, a normal convention as
many magazines have an
Contents – The contents has editors letter to introduce
got subheadings, to say what the magazine.
things are going to be in each
Style – The style
section. There are page
throughout the magazine
numbers to say what things
are going to be on each page, There is the magazine name at the bottomis consistent as the
of the page, and that is a typical contents has
and you can just skip to
convention as, a lot of magazines have subheadings that all look
something straight away if you
want to see that first. the name of the magazine at the bottom ofthe same.

11. Here Is an example of an existing
music magazine double page
spread that I have already
analysed.

13. Here I have compared my double
page spread of my music
magazine to see if it follows the
conventions.

14. Colour Scheme – The colour scheme
with the double page spread is pink, the
background is a light pink, and the title
matches that because it is also pink,
but it is a slightly darker shade of pink
which make sit stand out front he
background. By doing this is catches
the readers attention, and makes it
intriguing which make them want to
carry on reading.,
Main Headline – The main headline is
the artists name, and that is all that is
needed because by having that you are
straightaway letting yet audience know
who the artist is and what their name is
. It has a girly font, and is light pink
which is what makes it stand out from
the background.
Main Image – The main image is of the artist, and she is
dominating the majority so one half of the page. The things that There are two more images of the
we connote from the image is that she is innocent, and by artists however they are much smaller
seeing this we want to see what kind of an artists she will be. than the main image, as they aren't
dominating as much.
Background – The background is a light pink, and I chose to do
this because the artists looks very feminine, and by having it
It has the name of the magazine, in the
pink it connotes that she is girly.
left hand corner, which is another
Subheading – The subheading is a little title just introducing convention that I have followed as
the artists, and is a typical convention, as many different many magazines have the name of the
magazines introduce the artists like this. magazine on each page.

15. CHALLENGES OF CONVENTIONS OF REAL
MEDIA PRODUCTS
The things that I did differently, and the conventions that I
didn't follow were that I used teal as the colour of the
masthead , normally the colour of the masthead is either red
or black and no magazines that I have seen have used the
colour teal.
Also the background colour that I have chosen is very
different as well because many magazines have the
background a bold colour such as black or white.