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

XXL Magazine.
True Magazine.


Compared to my UK Grime magazine 'MURKKED'.


Compared to the media products above my magazine is very similar but also different to these real pieces of media. Using the similar/same conventions, parts, technique and language.

The first comparison that my magazine has compared to the real magazines shown above is that both magazines have a masthead , straplines , fonts and a picture that suit the target audience, editing , language, colour choices , layouts and use of language. Also the differences are that the magazines different depending on the genre of the magazine. E.g. XXL magazine has used very stylish but simple fonts to attract the readers to the main image of the black 'gangsta' this will attract their target audience of rap listeners. My magazine has rough looking fonts in colours which stand out because i wanted to appeal to my target audience, however this is different in all of the magazines above. My main cover image was very similar to the two magazines above because I wanted it to appeal to the target audience and make them realise the genre just from looking at it. Looking at magazines in my research I saw that the models had a serious face and were shot from a low angle, so when taking photographs for the front cover I tried to get my model to look similar and took the shots from a lower angle making the model look more powerful. My magazine and the real media products above have all the parts to a magazine however the styles are different depending on the target audience and genre of music, the real products obviously are more professional due to better funding and technology.

My contents page used the conventions of my genre that I identified in my research e.g. the contents pages I looked at had one main image with writing around it so that's what I used when taking images for my contents page. It was also similar when I looked at ideas for my double page spread and once I found the idea of using one page for the title and main image so i decided to use this in my final double page spread.