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

Throughout production of my magazine, I have ensured it will portray a professional and modern magazine structure. The ways I tried to achieve this is by getting inspiration from other magazine in production which follow my genre of music and share them same readership.

Magazines which do this are; Kerrang and NME. These magazines was where I got most of my inspiration.

Kerrang is one of the biggest music magazines in the music magazine industry, so following there conventions I will have ensured that my magazine will get the target audiences' attention as it follows what they like to read.

As you can see from the right image of a Kerrang magazine it is mainly full of imagery, the text used is minimal. By following this convention of the magazine it will attract the reader as they may tend to get attracted more by pictures then text.

Kerrang are established enough as a music magazine they are able to use large images which may even cover up there title, people will be able to still understand the title due to their popularity.

NME have a more professional and mature style to there magazine, by using some of there convention I have also been able to make my magazine look professional and with the relevant information.

This will also broaden the readership to audiences' who enjoy learning or reading new information on bands, tours and recent news and information.

By developing my magazine to ensure I have used both the conventions to give me a wide spread of audience. Using the imagery conventions from Kerrang and the textual and structure of it from Kerrang I will be able to 'get the best of both worlds' to ensure my magazine is professional and fun for the readers.

Both of these magazine portray young people and people associated with this type of music in a positive

way. This goes against the dominant ideology and stereotypical views of young people, and shows them in a positive way. So by following this from these magazines I will have shown positive connotations and connected to the target audience in a positive way as Kerrang and NME do, ensuring the audience are able to relate to my magazine. 

By using the mature and textual influences from NME and the image usage from Kerrang, I have developed and joined these magazine conventions together to create a new and professional look for my magazine. From this I will be able to connect to the target audience after using these good connotations.