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

My music magazine that I had designed, is a magazine designed to appeal to people who are interested at the hip-hop and rap culture. The design of my music magazine was chosen from examples of existing magazines. In order to make my design of my music magazine more appealing and recognisable to the audience, so that the audience will have the impression that this is a music magazine, I chose to go for a conventional design. This means that the design I chose for my magazine was a typical design that a music magazine would have.

This is the design of my masthead of my music magazine front cover; this design is a convention as I had used ideas from existing music magazine to create my masthead in this way. This masthead is located at the top left hand corner of my front cover page. Locating it at the top left hand corner was also a convention as the design was also taken from existing magazines. This design offront cover was popular as existing music magazine had also used this design a lot. Another convention of a real media product was that instead of having the masthead written out I had it changed into an abbreviation with the meaning of the abbreviation under it, so it is clear what it means, this was also used often for existing music magazines.

These are the designs of two different existing music magazines and both had used the idea of the abbreviation and locating the masthead at the top left hand corner. I had chosen these magazines and used the ideas that had been used.