1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines) DRAFT

As my magazine is a rock music magazine, I felt that I should use some of the design ideas of other rock magazines, and mainly the most successful and well known magazine, kerrang. This magazine uses black, red, white and yellow as its main colour pallete, in my magazine I used the same colour pallette, apart from the colour yellow as I didnt think there was enough on my cover to spread between 4 colours to a good effect. Another way which I was inspired by Kerrang! magazine was with the usage of sub titles and then a small description of article down the left hand side on the page, above the title. This gives the reader a good idea of what is in the magazine without revealing too much. The main cover line of this magazine is also similarly represented too mine, a qoute is givin underneath a slanted title. This quote gives the reader an idea of the attitude of the artist or the content of the interview/article. There is also a banner at the bottom of this magazine, as their is similarly in mine, this gives readers who aren't already attracted by the content of the magazine further information and more advertisement. Fans of the bands listed in this banner may now opt to buy the magazine.