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

Evaluation question 1

My piece follows a lot of conventions of a music magazine, however, I do feel it breaks some conventions. 

Cover: My cover follows the 'common' conventions, for example, the masthead, main image, cover lines, and the plug, however it does defy some conventions, for example the main image, the person photographed is not looking directly at the camera, this is because I wanted the cover to be a little edgy, also, I took several elements of other covers to create mine, and I used an issue of 'Q' as a Base for my my main image, on the edition of 'Q' it shows Ed Sheeran looking away from the camera which I felt worked, well and tried to emulate some of this. 

My contents page I feel strays the furthest away form the general conventions of a music magazine, even though it has several of the conventions typically on a contents page, it is layed out totally differently. It still has the main image, but it is slightly smaller than it should be, so it will be made slightly bugger, to actually dominate the page, and the amount of contents listed could be scaled down.

My double page spread follows the more common layout of what a double page spread looks like, for example it has all of what you would expect to see on a double page spread, such as the main image, quotes from the artist and the layout is stereotypical to a double page spread.