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

The genre for my media product is alternative/indie; I tried to convey this by having country music on the front cover, which is something not many people listen to. The inspiration for my magazine cover came from an issue of Uncut magazine. I saw the cover of the issue and I instantly liked it, I thought the way it was laid out was very clever. I made the main article of the issue one of the first things the reader would see so that it would grab their attention and make them interested in buying my magazine. I decided to put the price on the barcode, like Uncut magazine, because I didn’t want the price of the magazine to be something that stands out from everything else.

For my contents page I got inspiration from

 both Uncut and Mojo. I chose to use blue for the background, as the front cover and the double page spread were going to be black I thought I should have a different colour for the contents page. Instead of using a list of what is in the magazine. I broke it down into categories as most

 magazines do. I used a picture of a band so that it related to the page. I made sure that the page numbers were not one after the other as there is no magazine that has one page for each subject.  

Inspiration for my double page spread came from an issue of Mojo magazine; I liked this issue because of the way everything was arranged. It looked more professional and appealing. I thought about the positioning of all the icons and how I would type the text so that it all fitted together. As in most album reviews, number 1 always has more text than the others; therefore I used the same format for my own reviews. I made sure number 1 had more text and had a picture of the band so that it stands out from the page. I used a white strip at the top of the page because I did not want the whole thing to be black, otherwise it would seem a bit dull and boring.