In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products?

The Font Cover

Real Music Magazine covers

The cover that I based my magazine on

My Magazine

Conventions of my music magazine cover:(when I mention specific magazines, I am talking about the magazine issues on the previous

slides)

Conventions that I followed:• Large bold title that slightly overlaps the cover image. This is seen in the issues of Q and

Spin.• Sell lines down both sides of the cover image, as seen in the issues of Spin and Source.• Justifying the sell lines to the side that they are on to create a straight line of text down the

sides of the page. • I followed a colour scheme (purple, white and black). • A large colourful cover image where the artists are looking at the camera• A bar code• A panel across the top of the page as seen on Q, Spin and Source. • Magazine date and price• Variety of font sizes for the sell lines. More important sell lines = larger fontConventions that I developed:• A low angle shot. A high angle shot is seen in the NME issue with Lily Allen, but I have never

seen a similar shot in another music magazine. So I though I would be creative and use this idea.

Conventions that I developed:• White background for the cover image, but using a car in the background. Not plain• Changing the stereotypical colour schemes which are usually red, black and white, and using

purple instead, because I felt this colour was more suited to the genre• Using two artists on the cover. Usually only one is used, however occasionally more that one

appear.

Contents page

Real magazine contents pages

The contents page that I based my magazine onQ magazine NME

Vibe Mixmag

My Contents page

Conventions of my Music Magazine contents page:

(when I mention specific magazines, I am talking about the magazine issues on the previous slides)

Conventions that I followed:• Large title showing that it is the contents page• Image of a featured artist. Most like Q, with one middle size image on left/top of page• Colourful image, whole body shot with artist looking at the camera. Seen in Vibe and Q.• Text down left hand side of page like Q and Mixmag• Subtitles (features and every week), seen in all of the magazines, but most similar to Q• Title over image with relevant page number, as seen in Q and Mixmag, but most similar

to Q• Continuing with the colour scheme• Subscription offer at bottom of page. Similar style, text, and layout to NME.• Same font as Q. Including the use of uppercase letters for sub-titles.Conventions that I challenged:• Most music magazines have lots of text on the page. Mine does not have as much text

as some music magazine such as Q or NME, but has more than others such as Vibe and Mixmag. Although this does not make my contents page unconventional, I feel that because I based my whole contents page on Q magazine, and that most of the aspects of my contents page as very similar to Q magazine, that I should have included more text on the contents page so it was more similar.

Double page Spread

Real Music Magazine Double Page Spreads

Double page spread that I based my double page spread on.

My Double Page Spread

Conventions of my Music Magazine double page spread:

(when I mention specific magazines, I am talking about the magazine issues on the previous slides)

Conventions that I followed:• One single page of text, and one page of image. Some magazines don’t do this, but NME does, and I based my

double page spread on an issue of NME. • Large title for the text page, (italics, similar to NME with Florence and the Machine) which is usually a quote from

one of the artist’s songs. I have used a quote from ‘Moment for Life’ by Nicki Minaj, just because the Ell.Ey.Boyz are not real artists, they don’t have any songs that I could use, and I feel that this quote is quite fitting.

• A sub-title• A white background with black text• The large first letter of the article• The 3-column grid• An enlarged quote in the middle of the text, to stand out.• Name of the artist’s on the image in a similar format to the one used on the NME issue of The Chapman Family• Page numberConventions that I developed:• A large, long shot, colourful image, but the artists are not looking at the camera. It is a very casual shot. I felt that

this suited the genre of the magazine, and the style of the interview.Conventions that I challenged:• I only used one colour on my text page which was black. The three issues of NME use other colours in their text

(red and blue, as well as black text).• In all three issues of NME, the image flows from one page to the other. I did not do this. I had one solid page of

image, and one of text. This was due to technical limitations rather than choice. If I could have, I would have as I feel it is conventional.

• Centrally justifying my article columns. I was aware that this is a convention of newspapers and other similar texts, and I feel that is gives my magazine article a clean and professional look.