Question: 5In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Comparisons

I believe that these magazine covers and contents pages are very similar toward my product, as the colours, music artists on the cover and the position of the music artists are very similar compared to my front cover. Also they have the same genre of magazine

The artists on these front covers are very involved with Pop/Rock music. This makes these front covers very similar toward my product.

The colours that are used don’t represent what gender is specified for the magazine. For example, the RollingStone cover has a very limited set of colours, which are bland and dull, as if its not trying to capture the readers attention. However for the NME front cover the colours are bright and very eye catching, this could imply the target audience is teenagers or young adults.

The position that Lilly Allen relates more to the NME readers, for example she has an attitude facial expression, that can be related toward the readers of NME as they are young readers. Whereas on the RolingStones cover has Britney just casually laugh, this can suggest that the readers are more sophisticated and are of an older age compared to the NME cover.

The colour are very similar to one another, using black, white and red, these are very plain and simple, these are very different toward my product as I have used brighter colours to stay with the colour scheme from the front cover. The text has a normal font to it, which gives the reader a familiarity toward the audience, I have also done this on my product .

The images on both of the contents pages are very dominated, this is the same with my contents page as I want to show to the reader what the main article is . Also the images show what genre the magazine is.

These two contents pages seem to try to be sophisticated, the images, text and advertisements seem to align with each other and it’s all boxed in, there’s no randomness compared to other magazines. My product has a very familiar style as these two contents pages.