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

My media product use conventions of real media products in many ways. Ive developed conventions a lot in my front cover.
By having the main image over the title of the magazine makes us feel that they want the main story to catch your eye first and also that the story is bigger than the magazine.
The first thing was my barcode. I have chosen to position in the bottom left hand corner, by doing this it is not isn't wasting valuable space, and is lost on the page, the readers eye is drawn to other aspects before the barcode.

Like NME magazine I also have a Pug that stands out on the cover. By having a Pug iam using conventions which is typically of a music magazine.Though I feel my pug stands out a lot more by having it a different colour to my colour scheme while NME has adapted it to the colour scheme of red white and black.

For the title of the main article I have developed Conventions by using a Dymotape Banner for the writing. By doing this is draws attention to the article a lot more than what NME have done with just the red writing.


I have challenged the conventions of having all the fonts the same for the other and made them all different for the different stories. The reason I done this was the Bands and artists have all different types of font for there name so I thort that the readers would recognise the name by having it as there logo instead of having them all in the same witting.


I think this makes the Font cover a lot more interesting and also the content more recognisable.
Ive also challenged the fonts and writing by having some of the letters revered and also having the name of the magazine on a brick wall which looks like it has been spray painted on instead of just typed on. All theses things have made my magazine a lot more interesting to look at.

With the contents page I have made it a lot like NME and professional music magazine’s.
I’ve done this by having the boards are the Features, News and every week. By using these conventions readers can find the article they want quickly.
I have challenged conventions by not having an editorial. I feel that I can have a lot more content on the page and an Editorial is not as important as the page numbers, titles and also pictures.
I have developed conventions by having the supposes on a yellow tape at the bottom of the page, this is done in a lot of music magazine because as a contact you need to advertise your sponsors.

My double page spread is very much like the NME double page spread. This is shown by having the large image on the left hand side, writing next to the photo and also other images that go with the article.
I have not challenged any conventions because I wanted to make sure the most important part of the 3 pages looked like a music magazine.













I didn’t want to challenge a lot of conventions as this would be inappropriate for my target audience and they wouldn’t accept some of the challenges that I could have made.