1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?

Front Cover.

For the masthead I used a Sans Serif font. This conforms with the the usual conventions of real music magazines, for they typically use Sans Serif for titles and mastheads rather than body text. I also used a red font colour for the masthead as well as white and black for other sub-headings, which also follows general conventions of music magazines. Most magazines intentionally use black, white and one other colour (usually red) in their colour schemes, this is to create a sense of regularity and make it recognisable as a music magazine. In my opinion I believe that the red disrupts the flow of the black and white and is easily readable. As for the image, mine challenges the usual convention because the person is not looking directly at the camera whereas in other magazines such as VIBE the majority of the people on the front cover are looking directly at the camera.

Contents Page.

For the text inside my magazine and on the contents page I used a Serif font. Which is commmonly used as body text in most music magazines. However I still used it for the contents page title as well. My colour scheme of red, white and black continues into the the contents page from the front cover which is consistent with the forms of the real magazines because it formulates a sense of regularity within the magazine. In my magazine the subheadings of each topic within the magazine are alot larger and take up more space than in other music magazines, the main reason for this is that there arent as many pages to cover in mine, so i decided to make them bigger to emphasise what there is.

Double Page Spread.

For my double page spread, whilst continuing with my red, black and white colour scheme, I follow the forms of other magazines in some ways whereas in others I challenge them. For example, I have one large image offset to the side of my page like in alot of other double page spread designs. However I also have vey little in the background and overall it has quite a clean look, whereas in other designs there are alot of pictures and colours in the backgound. For the backgound colour (as I didn't have have an image covering all of it) I used white, mainly becuase it appears to be the colour of choice on the professional magazines, so I decided to conform to that.