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

I have conformed to the typical conventions of a magazine to a certain extent throughout my magazine. I used a clear masthead, with a typical music focused name, this is a basic convention of a magazine. I chose the name Melody after coming up with a range of mastheads, I chose this one as its musically focused and is a complete contrast against the genre of the magazine, it almost bends the rules against the magazine genre. I have also incorporated cover lines and kept to only using three fonts and three main colours, so the text doesn’t look too crowded and overdone. I wanted to make my magazine plain and classic, using black and white as my main colour focus, adding in splashes of red, on specific informative text lines. I wanted to do this so the .magazine looked more classic opposed to it looking over crowded and messy. The model on my magazine is dressed in a very glam rock outfit, I feel this outfit shows her fashion individuality but also helps to give the audience an insight to her personality and the genre of her band. She is wearing a ‘rock prom’ dress from the London based dress shop, Arrogant cat, which specialises in one off designs