Question 1 of my music magazine evaluation

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

2. • My magazine uses a variety of different
conventions of a music magazine. Some of the
more common and basic conventions my
magazine includes are things as simple as a
barcode on the cover of the magazine and
also a price and a date for which the magazine
is issued.

3. • Some other conventions I used are as follows:

4. Line of bands
• This is a convention of certain music
magazines, having a line at the bottom of the
magazine listing some more content of the
magazine. Kerrang also use it in their
magazine as shown here.

5. Double page spread
Another convention I used in my
magazine was to have a picture
taking up a full page of the double
page spread as show here in my
magazine and then in the NME
double page spread.

6. Cover
• Another convention is that the main body of
the contents is of a musician. The picture sits
behind the text, and the musician looks at the
camera. This is reflected in other magazines as
shown I these 3 magazines.

7. Contents
On the contents page there is
always some kind of layout for
the pages in numerical order.
There are also sub-headings in
between each section of the
contents.

8. Titles
• Another convention is that on each cover
there is some connection between the picture
and title of the band or the person in it.

9. Layout
• My layout matches what you would expect from a
music magazine. For example, title in the top left of
the page, main image in the foreground towards the
left, quote on the left, clear name of the artist… See
the similarities below:

10. More examples of layout similarities
Logo at the top with the black background, the clear sub-headings at the side of the page,
the big picture taking up a large proportion of the page etc.

11. Even more examples of layout
similarities
The image taking up the full page, a clear title for the article, a pull quote
from the text, 3 column structure for the writing, the smaller image in the
corner etc.

12. Colours
• The colours in my masthead match the colour
scheme of other folk punk magazines as
shown above in the ‘masthead’ bullet point.
My magazine also has green colours on it
matching the connotations we have for the
folk genre.

13. Cover lines
• On my cover page I have a cover line.