Evaluation Question 1 - Forms and conventions

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 title to the style of the page itself, conventions are the normal what is typically expected of the page. If you take an existing Magazine for example, the magazine NME is a conventional Teen Indie magazine, it has even made its own conventions, when buying the magazine you would always expect to see the NME masthead at the top left hand side of the page with one or more models on the front with a subjective gaze. Magazines tend to stick to these conventions because it is what the audience will expect and want to see, other magazines like to break this conventions when targeting specific or niche audiences or have specific subject matters. One thing that effects the conventions of a magazine is the genre such as conventions of a woman's heath magazine will be allot different to a death metal magazine.

My magazine has a unusual genre its a mix of a few others, I think it has a mixture of indie, pop and college lifestyle. Its hard to put my magazine into a genre because it was never aimed at a small specific niche audience more of a general range of mass market teenagers.


I got inspiration for my magazine from many different existing magazines such as NME I liked the way they had a constant color scheme and had a constant indie atmosphere, I wanted to capture the same feelings within my music magazine.
Here is my magazine after I have done a annotation of some of the conventions i have used.
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