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By following conventions of a magazine it makes my magazine more professional to the reader. As it has a similar style to popular grime magazines such as RWD which is a very well-known magazine.

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My double page spread both develops and challenges the conventions of a music magazine. I have developed the conventions of a music magazine by having the masthead big and bold, as well as having the masthead the name of the artist which the double page spread is about. My double page spread is about a grime artist called “Nathan Richards” and so I have his name on two lines in a large font on the right side of the page. I followed this convention because from my research I found out that by having the artists name in the biggest font on the page makes the artist look even more powerful, so it makes the reader feel even more privileged that they are learning about that artist. Another example of my double page spread developing the conventions of a music magazine is the use of pull quotes. For my double page spread I have used two pull quotes, one of them is located under the masthead in a large font and the other is in-between the main body of text on the right hand side. The reason why I have used pull quotes is because it keeps the reader’s attention on the page, so they read all of the text available on the page. Normal double page spreads of music magazines have only one but I have two because of my target market. Most music magazines are targeted at 18-30 year olds but as grime is becoming more popular in younger ages (14-25 year olds). Normally the older the person the more attention span they have so I needed to maintain the attention levels on my double page spread, one way I did this was by using one more pull quote than usually found in a music magazines double page spreads. On my double page spread I have used an introduction on my artist before the reader looks at the article. I have put the main text in to two columns and so I have placed the introduction paragraph at the top of the first column so that the readers look at this introduction before the article. However, originally I used the same font size to the article so it did not stand out and therefore lots of people didn’t read this first. As a result of this I then made the font size bigger, from 14 to 16 so now it is read before the article.

On my double page spread I have challenged the conventions of a music magazine by having a banners which covers the whole of the top of the page. The banner follows the colour scheme of my magazine as it is black with white text, this is important as it looks more professional as every page in the magazine is belongs to each other. The text in the banner says “ghrime exclusive; interview with Nathan Richards” which like pull quotes give a lot of information in a short amount of words. I chose to include a banner for one main reason, it was to save space but quickly address the reader what is happening on this page, therefore keeping the reader’s attention on the page. All of the double page spreads I have researched there was some sort of text around the photo, I chose to not follow this as I believe the photo is powerful on its own and if I did put a pull quote for example around the image, it would steal the reader’s attention away from the article but on the photo instead. When looking back at what I wanted my target audience of my magazine, was to give a simple layout to the magazine so that it is easy for the reader to navigate around the page, as my target age group was of a younger age category to other magazines such as rock.

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Like my front cover I developed the contentions of a music magazine. The vast majority of Music magazines like; Q, Rolling Stone, Kerrang and RWD have the word “contents” in a big font at the top of the page, so that it is the first thing the reader looks at on a page. So I positioned my masthead at the top and covers the width of the page so that it immediately stands out to the reader. On my masthead I also used another convention of a music magazine which is to continue the colour scheme which I have done by having the masthead in white and the rectangle behind it in black. I did this because the colour scheme affects the reader’s mood, for example the colour black gives a negative mood as it associated with no hope. However, the actual masthead is in the colour white which gives a happier mood because it represents light and hope. I have purposely used the colour black for the rectangle behind the masthead as there is more space to fill and therefore gives an overall negative mood which is the stereotype of the grime industry. Another example of developing the conventions of music magazines is by having large, clear and readable fonts. Throughout my magazine I have only used two fonts which are lemon milk and Arial black so it will take the reader less time to process the information which other fonts like Carolin Mountains which take more time. By doing this it helps keep the reader’s attention on the magazine, therefore making it more likely they will buy the magazine. If i did not use clear fonts it would make it hard for the reader to process all of the information and therefore not buy the magazine. My third example of me developing the conventions of a music magazine was by using “features” and “regulars” to categorise the articles of the magazine are. Not only does this look professional but is very helpful for readers because if the reader wants to look at a specific article in this issue and is not normally in the magazine, they can just look to the features section where they can look at the page number that the article is on.

As well developing conventions of a music magazine I have challenged the conventions of a magazine. I have done this by including a section under the main image where I talk about the magazine. From my research I found that magazines such as vibe for example they don't include and a section for the editor, but I felt this was necessary as it is a great way to make the reader buy the magazine. In this section I have talked about what pages I recommend to the reader. Like having the “features” and “regulars” section, the readers feel that a lot of time and effort has been put into the magazine and again makes the reader feel more special that results into a higher chance of them buying the magazine.

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My magazine front cover develops the conventions of music magazines. On my front cover I used a big and bold masthead which develops conventions of music magazines because from my research I found out that music magazines like RWD and NME has a big masthead to attract potential customers, and without it customers would not know what the magazine is called. From my research I found out that music magazines like The Source and Q use tag lines to help sell the magazine and so on my front cover I used a tag line under the masthead, “the UK’s bestselling grime magazine” so to the potential customer it looks like the magazine is trying to sell itself to them, which makes it more likely they will buy it. Another example of me developing the conventions of a music magazine was by my main image. Like every music magazine front cover I looked at had cover lines on them. In my magazine I used the cover line of “Stormzy the song that changed the nation” which I positioned near the top right hand side of the page, under my masthead. Like the other things I have incorporated in my magazine, I researched them to see if they were necessary because I wanted as little text as possible to keep the reader's attention by enough text to entice the reader. At the top of the page I used a banner that has four words on which are the things that the magazine is going to cover. This is very important to my magazine because it is one of the first things the reader’s look's at on a page and gives the reader important information about the magazine.

To be honest I wanted my front cover to challenge the forms of music magazines, however this did not happen for a variety of reasons. The main reason was because it would not be relevant to the magazine. I was going to put the masthead sideways down the left hand side of the page, however this did not work because it took one-third of the page and then meant that i had to use the right hand side to place my text. The effect of this was that the magazine was “heavy” on the right side as that was where my text was.

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

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