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

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

The name of my music magazine is DubDog. My group members and me chose this name as our masthead plainly states the genre of the music that will be featured in the monthly. The name is small and it is alliteration. I chose to have a fixed colour scheme for the magazine because I wanted to have the colour to match on each page and on each section the background image remained the same. This would give my magazine a unique style that will be diverse to other magazines that have plain backgrounds. This design was encouraged by my research of different magazines which showed me that many magazines looked pretty similar when it came to the layout of the page. The magazine that inspired me the most is Mix-Mag which showed me some good conventions however currently there is no Dub Step magazines. We decided to follow most of the regular conventions of music magazines when producing our merchandise. The main conventions we have in our front cover includes a masthead, a price, free give away, a issue number and a date with a picture of a artist.

In the front cover I have used:

-A masthead however I have created my own one which is quite unique and has a dominant colour

-Bar codes and prices which is shown clearly on the bottom right corner similar to what a real magazine would have.

-Subheadings and informative text for a short preview of the magazine holds.

-A dominant image in the frame of the front cover.

These magazines both have text which are either down the right side column or the left hand column which follow a colour code throughout the front cover along with a main image to convey a message along with a background that matches the effect of the genre and the main image. They both have mastheads that should be well recognizable throughout every place where they are getting sold. They both have names of celebrities which makes the reader to purchase to buy the magazine. My magazine however also has a tag line which is used to make the magzine more poular. However on my magazine there is a bar code and a price at the front where I'm assuming that on the other magazine, the bar code and price will be placed at the back. A website is also on both magazines which shows you that it is taken the ability to acess technology into hand. Both magazine also takes the audiences feedbacks into hand and my magazine has a free offer to the reader to make the auidence feel more engaged