In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
As I started off by researching into a lot of different types of music magazine I discovered that there were a lot of similar conventions. On the front cover most of the magazine had a main image, main cover line, barcode, issue number, date, masthead, selling line and third left. I looked at simple look magazine which gives out strong tensions to the buyer as I wanted to do a "House music" magazine targeting for the mid-twenties who still in love with house musics so, I started to look at more simple, artistic and stylish magazine, such as "SPIN", "SPREAD ART CULTURE", "BILLBOARD", etc.
And they all have quite artistic, simple and empty front cover, content page and double page spread.
For my front cover I used one main head line telling what's my magazine is dedicated to, issue number, masthead, main image and the name of a model I used. A masthead "SMART BEAT" I used conventions of real media products which I followed the style "Smart" because my target group are mostly business mans. I also made masthead font look sharp and simple so it follows the style I want to stick with. For my content page I challenged forms and conventions of real media products by adding few photographs showing the main cover lines like the normal convention has and made it look simple so, readers can recognise what is on the pages. For my double page spread I challenged forms and conventions by realising that usually normal conventions has photograph of singers or stars on a page and interview article written on another page so, I photoshopped my model's photograph and used it on a page and writing an interview article on another page with a title of my interview and introduction to my model's life.
