Question 1: in what way does your product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of a real media product

My media product conforms to the stereotype of the drum and bass genre of music, with a darker colour pallet and people with characteristics of the underground rave scene and the artists are of a younger demographic because they know the technology and they know want the fans want. The artists have casual fashion sense, this includes plain skinny jeans, T-shirts or shirts and sometimes hoodies, this represents a "back to basics" ideology and lets the music speak for them. A theme of the magazine is the red and blue theme, which all the writing is presented, this is because they are bold colours and catch the eyes, this theme of the magazine goes against other magazines because they normally use a large variety of colours.

My magazine challenges the conventions of a music magazine because the front page is simplistic and doesn't clutter the page with unneeded information. then inside the magazine it represents a style that is informal and lets the fan know what they want without any of the unneeded information, this style wants to represent a "written by the fans" idea. Nothing in the magazine is overpowering and is good for a light read once a month, giving the sense that its a good read but not troublesome.

The colour pallet was very important for my magazine because the main two colours are red and blue and this are two masculine colours addressing the fan base. The two main colours are also two bold contrasting colours which easily catch the readers eye but I tried to do this without being unpleasant.

I used male artists mostly because i wanted to make a connection between the artist and the fans. The idea behind this was to create the belief that the artists aren't unreachable and that they're human too, this could create the idea that the younger fans could follow in their footsteps and become the new wave of artists. This goes with the conventions of the genre.