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

Conventions of magazines can be anything from the style of the page to the masthead placed on it, conventions are things that you would normally expect on a magazine. For example NME magazine is a typical magazine for a teen audience. It has made its own conventions like the masthead and the style they use to project there information. Magazines normally stick to the same conventions because it is what the audience expect to see each week or month. The only thing that really changes these conventions is the genre, whether it is a women's health magazine or a music magazine.

The genre i chose for my magazine is indie/rock music. I chose this because i looked into top magazines in the UK and the top selling magazines i found were; NME, Kerrange and Q Magazine followed by magazines like Heat and OK. The inspiration for my magazine came from NME and Kerrange Magazine. Although both magazines are very different, i tried to combine them together to make to make a kind of folk/rock genre.