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

    

Before I produced my own student magazine, I researched other magazines to look at the codes and conventions of student magazines.

 One convention I have used on my front cover is big central image that relates to the music genre of the magazine , another convention i used was to have the bar code and price on the front cover. on the front cover i also used a purple, black and white colour scheme and using a recognizable colour scheme used in magazines to create a recognizable house style . i also followed the convention of using different size and font on text to attract an audience. i used a formal mode of address because i have a targeted audience of 18 to 25 year old's and being formal seemed more appropriate.

 my contents page carries on the colour scheme of my front cover creating brand identity. the contents page contains a table of contents then images and a masthead and this is a typical trend in most magazines. i also followed the convention of adding page numbers on the actuall images.

on my double page spread i have a close up , eye level shot image on the first page , this is typical for a magazine but i also placed quotes from the article on anchor the image. on thesecond page od the double page spread i used my beat logo on the top right coner , i did this to show consistency in my magazine . most magazines use the same colour scheme all though the magazine and i followed this convention.