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

My Contents Page challenges conventions within real media as it has a lack of imagery and range in angles and layout with the images and text. I felt I should follow the clean, smart look I was going for and felt that my magazine couldn’t follow suite with the normal messy looking contents page. I think having the images in a clearer layout and the font following this makes my magazine appear more formal, reaching for what my audience are looking for.

Having a strict colour theme run throughout the page was often used in other music magazine, by using these conventions in my own contents page it made my work sharper, cleaner and more similar to that of a real music magazine’s contents page. The colour theme connotes style and class but also aims for both genders, it’s not too male or female dominant in the scheme of colours.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The images used within my Contents Page were made by me to look as though they are CD’s for new Indie Rock and Indie Grime bands; I feel they follow the conventions of this music genre through the choice of imagery, band and CD cover name. This represents the social group I was aiming for; 18-25 year olds. I feel as though the CD’s represent this social group entirely well and follow the conventions within my chosen social group because it’s stereotypically the genre of music that age range listen to.

The models used in this page also represent the age group I’m going for – young, fashionable and Indie. They would be able to familiarise themselves with these models and be inspired both musically but with style as well.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I feel that this would be distributed Bauer Media as my magazine is inspired by Q which is published by Bauer Media.My magazine is most influenced by Q so would fit what Bauer Media are aiming to distribute.