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

Many magazines include information about upcoming concerts and festivals. This is normally seen on the page as a cover line but also can be in a header and footer.

Most music magazines use footers on the front cover of their music magazine. I have added a footer onto my magazine so that the reader con know what to expect in the magazine and it also gives an insight into what other bands and artists that are not included in the cover lines will be included in the magazine.

A convention of music magazines is to have the main image overlap the title. But I decided not to as this is the first issue of my magazine so the title needs to be clearly showing so that Customers can actually see and get use to the magazines logo.

Many music magazines have the artist in the main image framed in a medium shot as the customer can see their facial expressions and also things that they may be holding such as a guitar like on my front cover.

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

A convention of music magazines to have a bar code on the front cover of the magazine so the customer can see the price of the magazine straight away and they also can see the date line which is normally below the bar code. I decided to put the price of the magazine on the front cover as the customer will want to know how much the magazine is as this the first edition of the magazine so they will have no clue exactly how much the magazine is.

A convention of music magazines to have a different coloured box behind the text so it stands out more and so that the page looks more attractive to the customer.

Many music magazines use a title that spreads all the way across the page but like NME I decided to put the title in the top left corner of the cover page.

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

Many music magazines have a sections where the pages are sorted into so people can find what they want easily. I have added this into my contents page but have only added two sections for the different types of articles.

It is a convention of music magazines to include the date line on the contents page of the magazine so that the reader knows when this edition came out to keep track on up to date music news.

Some music magazines advertise concerts and other events on the contents page and give a page number to direct the reader to the page which contains the rest of the information about the upcoming concerts advertised on it.

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

It is a convention of music magazines are to have an editors note on the contents page so that the readers can feel connected with the producers of the magazine. I have included this as because it is the first issue of the magazine I felt the readers needed to be informed about what will be included in future magazines.

It is also a convention as well as including the date of the magazine to include a issue number which allows anyone who wishes to collect the magazine know what issue it is.

Many music magazines have a lot of images dotted around on their contents page so that they have a more bright and interesting contents page to attract more readers.

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

Many music magazines cover up one half of the page with a big image of the artists or whatever the focus of the double page spread is. I put an image that filled up one side of the double page spread so that the readers will know exactly who the focus of the article is so that Oblivions fans know exactly which page the oblivion article contains.

Many music magazines also have smaller images of the artists etc. So that the reader gets to see more of their favourite bands and artists. I have added in some smaller images on the left hand side of the main image and these images have effects on and show other images taken in oblivions photo shoot.

Many music magazine also have picture credit which may say who took the photo or who the image belongs to and it will also say what the date was once the image was taken so that the reader knows when the image was taken so if they like the image they know who took it and can look out for their future work.

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

It is a convention of music magazines to include a quote from the artist that the double page spread is about. This is so that the reader can get an insight before actually reading the article on the double page spread a small insight into what the article is exactly going to be about. I have added a quote from the artist Oblivion so that the reader can see what he will be speaking about in the article before even reading it.

It is also a convention of music magazines to have a Drop Cap as the first letter of the double page spread article. This helps the page to stand out and catch the readers attention so that the reader is more likely going to be attracted to reading the article.