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

My media product uses forms and conventions as you can see from this collage of elements from a real music magazine as it contains similarites to my collage of elements from the magazine in which i created. Firstly, the masthead is similar to mine and it is large, bold and colourful in order to attract the reader. Futhermore, it has been placed infront of any images used on the front cover and i wanted it to be as visible as possible. Secondly, i have also used colour on my front cover. However, instead of this zebra pattern behind the barcard, i have used a colourful paint splatter to bring the cover alive. My magazine also follows a busy and stylish layout. As you can see this 'VIBE' masthead has used very bright, vibrant colours for different texts in order to make it eye catching and attractive for a young audience, similar to my own.
Moreover, this magazine has also used graphics such as stickers in order to make it appear stylish but not too neat and tidy so there is room for 'messiness'. This makes it more appealing to an 'indie scenester' as their image consists of both messy and stylish features such as hair and fashion.

I have used the typical magazine conventions such as a kicker, pull quotes, drop caps, white space and gutters.

A kicker allows the reader to recieve a taste of what the article is going to be about including all the main elements of the story.

Pull quotes can be used to manipulate an article in order to intise the buyer to read the article. However they are also there leave 'trails', if you like, as to where to article is heading.

I have used both drop caps and gutters to follow the standard conventions of a magazine and white space is used in order to make the double page spread feel clean and possibly better quality also.