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

With my media product I think that it sticks to most media products conventions such as having a masthead and a pug, but in some cases there might be signs of not sticking to the conventions of them.

A pug like this one with some kind of offer on it, which is on the front page.  This one is positioned on right hand side of the page, as it is out of the way and is quite out of view of eye view point.

On my front page my pug is also in the same position, this is to get more eye view onto the bigger picture, although the pug is illustrating a competition and wanting people to win it can still be over looked by the picture.

There other ways that my front page keeps with conventions and still develops them further, it would be the sub heading at the bottom of the page, it is made not too large so it can fit other things around it.  Myn is slightly slanted and above the bottom of the page, this is again to add more information around my front page. 

In some ways this does make it look quite unusual, but it still fits in well for me to be able to get other things to fit in underneath, like the barcode and also a tag-line along the bottom which matches it at the top of the page.  With the colours that i have used they are relatively new and i haven't seen a magazine with these specific colour schemes.

With the exception of the magazines that i have analyzed they are quite bright colours that have been used and some of them are dark colours for example the Q magazine is quite a chilling look as there are dark colours and a bright red.

With the magazine of NME they use a medium close up of The gossip, with them looking into the camera in a cool looking way.  The way i have used eugene in this picture has tried to represent this, with him he has got his guitar and this represents the title about the solo question.  With having my model being partly covered up by text this makes the objects and text around him stand out better, this is making my magazine works effectively at challenging the conventions which makes it work.

With all of these effects taking place the rules for my magazine will be making it stand out and to be something different. With shops being interested in having my magazine, with it on the shelf will make customers catch a glimpse of my magazine and be intrigued of how unique it is.