2. Q1: In what ways does your
media product use, develop
or challenge forms and
conventions of real media
product?
3. To help me design my own magazine, I
conducted a research on different
music magazines to get aware of the
codes and conventions of a magazine. I
have used the same conventions in my
magazine. Most music magazine have
the name of the magazine behind the
cover star, I’ve done the opposite, in
this way I have challenged the other
music magazines by keeping the cover
star behind the mast head.
4. This is the cover page of my
magazine. I’ve edited the
background like most music
magazines and made it look like
white light in the background. I
have kept the colour scheme 0f
the picture dull to give it a
gothic look, since the genre of my
magazine is Metal. The Goth
look will attract people who like
metal and rock.
5. I think that the cover page of a magazine is the most
important thing since It sells the brand, it has to be
visually appealing and different from the other cover
pages on the newsstand to attract the new readers. On
the other hand each new cover must be different from
the previous issue but still familiar and recognizable
to regular readers. It has to present the publications
character and its content. I have challenged and used
the conventions of other music magazines to give it an
appealing look.
6. The props I have used for the model were
A guitar: so that the magazine looks like a music
magazine,
A black shirt: to give the model an emo gothic look
because of the genre which is metal
The name of my magazine is “Timbre” which is the
quality of a musical note or sound or tone that
distinguishes different types of sound production,
such as voices and musical instruments, string
instruments, wind instruments, and percussion
instruments.
7. In the contents page I
have used all the Codes
and conventions of a
Music Magazine. The
layout of the contents
page is effective and
easily accessible with the
page numbers making it
simple to read. The
subsidiary images show
what is inside the
magazine
8. This is the double
spread page of my
music magazine.
Mostly the double
spread page is full of
text, I have
challenged other
magazines by not
adding too much text
to the double spread.
