Evaluation Question 1:

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

My front page includes several features of a music magazine, such as mastheads, central images, cover-lines etc. This normally is what the layout of my music magazine includes. Central images for my front page is to get the readers attention, which i used bright colours to highlight the image of the people posing as guitarists, this would help my audience understand the genre and style of my magazine.

My contents uses conventions of a real music magazine, such as pages listed and included, along with the form of advertisement. I also tried to keep the colour scheme in correlation with the rest of the pages, such as from magazines like Kerrang!, they stick with a particular colour code and layout style.

My double page spread I have kept fairly similar to a typical music magazine article, which consists of one main image and the article of about 500 words. For the font styles, I use san serif text for the article as it is only for reading and not catching the readers attention. However for the larger more exciting fonts for the masthead and other areas I use to capture the genre of music and the attention of the reader.

I have included some things which aren't usually enlisted on a typical magazine, such as banner being carried on throughout all the pages and finally I used a more creative background for my central image on my front page instead of a plain white background.