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

What are the conventions (key ingredients) of music magazines?

There are five conventions of a music magazine:• The front cover• The contents page• The editor’s letter• Two-page spreads• The advertisements

The front cover

What does the front cover have to include?• The magazine’s

title• The fonts and

colour used• The main image• The cover lines• Others ( the price,

the bar code, etc.)

How have I included these conventions in my own music magazine?

The magazine’s title is Amuzine

Those are the cover lines. The cover lines are used to show the audience the interesting contents inside the magazine. If there is any topics inside the magazine which they are interested in, they would buy and read it.

The date of Amuzine published. I decided to make Amuzine be published monthly.

I will sell my magazines as £2. This price is set up by the comments which I got from teenagers from my questionnaire.

A free gift is a way to attract the audience. It can also be said this is a way to encourage teenagers to buy our products. I used a free poster as a gift to them. This poster is used the most girl’s band in Asian therefore teenagers may buy because they want to support their favourite band.

This is the main image I used for my cover. I used a medium shot. She is my friend. I asked her to help me because she is a pretty girl by Asian people’s aesthetic standards. Most female teenagers’ outlooks is looked similar to her. And most Asian boys likes this kind of girls. So I believe she can be my cover’s model to attract my target audience.

Every magazine covers contain a bar code. It’s used to scan the price in the shops, such as 711. it’s necessary to have a bar code on my cover.

The contents page

What is a typical contents page like?• The magazine’s title• The page numbers• The titles of each

contents• The subtitles of each

contents• The advertisements• The published date

How have I included these conventions in my own music magazine? The magazine’s title

The published date

The issue numbers

Contents, which contains page numbers, topics’ titles and subtitle used to summary the each topics. There are three sections, which are interview, features and plus. The stars around every page numbers are used to ornament this page.

It’s used to show my audience this is the contents page.

A main image I used as the background on the contents page. I used a long shot to take this picture. However, I think a long shot picture doesn’t look good with other things together therefore I cut this picture and change into a medium long shot picture. She is also my friend. I asked her for help because she is also a fashion, pretty girl. Asian teenagers like her outlook.This content I placed individually because I wanted to show it relates to the picture.

The double pages spread

• The masthead of articles

• The subtitles• The articles• The pictures relates

to articles• The page numbers

How have I included these conventions in my music magazine?

The magazine's title. My teacher advised me to add it onto my double pages spread. I decided to add in the end because it looks suitable on the double pages.This is a special text box which I only used to ornament this double pages.

The title and subtitles.

The page numbers

This is the text which I wrote by myself. This is a interview with Yaho Lee. On the left side I wrote some introductions. And on the right side, I wrote some questions which are showing I was interviewing her, asking her questions for her fans and she was answering.

There are four pictures which took on my friend, Yaho Lee. This page is showing I had a interview with her. So everything is about her. It’s reasonable that I used her pictures on this page because they are related to the contents.

The differences between the examples and my proper pages

The front cover:The conventions on the sample cover are all included on my front cover.

The contents page:To compare with the sample, my proper page doesn’t include any advertisements and the editor’s letter. Except these two conventions, my contents page included very other conventions.

The double pages spread:My teacher advised me to add the magazine’s title-Amuzine onto my double pages spread. So this is the only difference between the sample and my proper one.

Before I started to create my pages, I did some researches about the boundaries of music magazines. I have to read some examples and decide what my music magazine will look like. And also I saved the drafts every time when I thought I finished. And I asked feedbacks from my teachers and test buddies.