1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions? http://dackgeorgia7128.blogspot.co.uk/

2. I have chosen a colour scheme to feature across my magazine. I chose a dark orange as to coordinate with the image (the violin and wall). I also used white for text, and occasionally black depending on which would show up. This is conventional of magazines as a strong repeated colour is part of the house style and branding, making a magazine more recognisable. NME use a bright red and then similarly, black and white for text. My colour scheme however is quite unusual as it is more typical for magazines to use bright primary colours. My cover image is not unconventional but largely unusual as most magazines will use pictures from photoshoots with the artists for the front covers, allowing them to customise the background and making adding text etc a lot easier. NME does occasionally use candid photos and I have even found a cover in which the image does not use direct mode of address. In my cover and this both the people are looking away, and its as if the photo as been taken by someone in an ordinary position, not from specially close access that photographers would usually use to get live shots. Both images are also the same sort of midshot. 3. This shows how I have overlapped and layered the masthead over the cover image, a common convention with all magazines. This is my slogan, a common feature which is usually positioned small near the masthead, used for branding the magazine in a catchy way. Connecting is ironic reference to the title Bridge. Having a pull line along the top or bottom of a magazine is a conventional cover feature which is usually used to advertise something which is special, exclusive, free or a bonus to the reader. In my case, its the freebee of an unusual, pull out edition. Here is more layering, this time with text and the pull lines. Layering is conventional of magazines but to almost squeeze and slot text in like this is fairly unconventional, b ut here it has been done on an NME cover 4. Listing artists is a typical NME convention, and indeed for all music magazines, putting artists names on covers is a convention. Having the name of the main band/artist that is the cover star and having the main feature in the magazine, much larger, sometimes even the largest text on the cover is a typical convention. I also placed it partially over the person in the image like NME have here. The second typical feature is a few words before the artist name, smaller and above it, to give a clue as to what form the feature/interview might take. I conventionally put my second main feature, the festival guide, on the cover as its a big part of this months edition. Its in NME and some other music magazines to also put smaller other photos on the cover on top of the main image. To make these visible I had to use an overlay in the house colour behind, I did this in the square shape. It is conventional to have boxes like this on covers. Also I decided to use a handwriting type front for FESTIVAL GUIDE, similar to that used on the NME cover, and found quite a lot in magazines in order to convey a certain message. 5. My contents page maintains the house style and feel of my cover, using the same colours and boxy design. I wanted to keep and even increase the packed fullness of the design and create a fairly unconventional style of mosaic collage type layout, using lots of lines and grids, as well as smaller photos. 6. Having a subscription advert is a conventional aspect of contents page, and a part of every NME contents, so I included this to make mine look more professional and also to increase profit etc in that people will be more likely to subscribe. Here is my list of every other article/feature in the issue. While it is unconventional to do this like this, it does reflect the list format of the band index of NMEs content. I have also done the same as NME in highlighting regular/resident features in bold and leaving ones unique to this issue plain. A main convention of any contents page is to have some sort of title which signifies it is indeed the contents page. For my magazine I decided to use the fairly conventional phrase INSIDE. Another common aspect is to still again have the masthead/magazine title, but to decrease it in size, sometimes as well compared to the side of the contents title. The final convention to the top of a contents page is to include the date of the issue. The other main convention of the contents is for the primary article relating to the cover image/stars to be given a large portion of the contents page. This would usually feature either another or several different photos of the artists. I did this here and made a collage of many photos from the photo shoot to maintain the gridded collage feel of my contents page. The other convention is to have a small piece of text briefly describing what this article will be about, and including the name of the band, usually in another colour (like I have done). I did however challenge the conventions by putting a pull quote, usually found on the double page spread itself, here on the contents. 7. My double page spread (effectively 8 page article) is a festival guide, guides to various things being typical types of articles aside from very conventional interviews and reviews. The design of the spread regarding the background and images is fairly unconventional, as usually you will have one main large photo, perhaps with smaller ones, and usually of an artist/s. The scrapbook effect is especially unconventional. It is also challenges conventions as nearly all double page spread isolate quotes. A final convention I maintain is somehow continuing part of the article across both pages of the spread in order to create continuity. This is nearly always done whether it by through the title, a border, or as in this insance, the image/s. 8. A typical convention is having almost excessively large title text which takes up nearly half of the top of the page. Here you can see, in NME style, the writing is boxed so I mimicked this convention. Also here you can see a smaller box of a conventional small amount of text which is used to give a brief overall description of the proceeding article. Here you can see the conventional use of bold and colour/boxes to differentiate between text and subheadings. NME and other magazines use this usually to highlight questions and answers in interview articles. This shows the magazine convention of columning. Articles will nearly always be written in columns but usually 3 or more, so while I'm using a convention Im also challenging it slightly by using only two very wide columns, as well as putting a divider down the middle. 9. The ultimate student and/or devoted rock lovers mosh fest. Hardcore and abrasively brilliant... we heard they set fire to the tents if that gives you an idea. Forecasters predict a riot. plenty of appeal for us youth, equally not crawling with kiddies bring your family and score a lift! Dude! This is definitive festival for the surfers, skaters and riders out there. Chill in the best summer vibes before partying the night away in the dance arena. Gnarly. With summer fast approaching its that time of year where we go festival crazy here at BRIDGE! Youll be seeing lineups left right and centre, and with over 300 events each year it can be a bewildering processbut fret no longer, you now have the ultimate, definitive guide to festivaling at your fingertips and no excuse not to festival this summer away. Your Welcome. The writing style of music magazines differs greatly but when researching NME and reading lots of their editions it was clear they used very colloquial register and a number of repeated conventions, for example speaking directly to the reader by asking questions and referring to the audience directly as you and sometimes even collectively together with the audience as us or we. Here is examples of me using young language and all of the above within my magazine.