Question one

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

My magazine is unconventional in the fact that it offers all types of media that not all magazines offer. My magazine uses twitter, Facebook, sound cloud, spotify, YouTube, Instagram and has it's own TV channel; this means that my audience won't have to resort to any other social medias to find out about music or keep in the loop about alternative music, in the long term this keeps my readers loyal.

My sells line are provocative, and have swear words which might be unusual for normal media magazine users. This makes magazine stand out from other genres as swear words aren’t seen in music magazine genres such as pop and indie. The masthead doesn’t look conventional as is the writing is jagged. The masthead will be eye catching so it’s recognisable. The interesting sell lines will entice the audience to buy the magazine. The main image will take over the majority of the page allowing the audience to see the artist’s expression and pose as I’m using a long shot image. This also allows the audience to be enticed to what the artist is wearing and would want to buy what she’s wearing/look like her. The main image shows a guitar allowing the audience to notice that it’s a music magazine.

Other information such as price and date, barcode, issue number allows the reader to acknowledge the general information that is needed to be known e.g. price. The plug will probably be a competition to interest the reader into getting to know more about the prize leading them to buy the magazine as they think they have a chance in winning. The plug will be something about winning tickets to their favourite artist’s show which would be a good opportunity for the readers.

The double page spread includes articles on the well-known artists allowing the audience to learn more information about that artist. This is one of the reasons people buy magazines; to read more about the artists. Posters will be included in the magazine to entice people in buying the magazine, as my target audience will be interested in putting posters up on their wall of their favourite artists.

Features such as reviews are informative to the reader and it would be something the reader would want to know. Albums allow the reader to know what’s new with the music scene; this keeps the magazine’s readers on trend.

The colours I’m using; red, black and grey are somewhat conventional colours for a rock magazine; I chose this house style because alternative music also incorporates rock.