Question 1: In what way does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
When I was starting my media project I had to decide weather or not to conform to media conventions or contradict them. I believe my product has both developed and challenged the forms and conventions of media products, but overall it develops them.The reason I did was so that the final outcome would have a mix of everything, old and new and would therefore help to make my final product a success.
The product develops and also reinforces the current popularity in the Indie music genre. This is on a rise at the moment due to some big new artist in this genre including Bastille, The 1975, Jake Bugg and many more. I chose this genre as I have a passion for it myself and it is a popular genre of music. My product reinforces the commonly used style of front covers that other indie music bands use.The main image of the band member is surrounded by cover lines and one big main cover line in the middle at the bottom of the page. I made sure the person on the my front cover was stereotypically dressed in a Indie style, this is so you would instantly recognize it as that genre. The masthead of the magazine is in a bright colour and with a red background. This is similar to the NME magazine style. The masthead only covers the left corner of the magazine, this is a common convention of Indie magazines, unlike other magazines where the masthead is usually spread across the top of the cover. I have used a local 'up-and-coming' band for my main image, which is a typical thing for Indie magazines to do.
Here is an annotated picture of my front cover it shows how I developed and reinforced the forms and conventions.
Here my Contents page is annotated to show how I have reinforced conventions
My double page spread show my annotations on how I have reinforced the codes and conventions.
Overall I believe my product has successfully developed and reinforced the codes, conventions and forms of a real media products well.
The product develops and also reinforces the current popularity in the Indie music genre. This is on a rise at the moment due to some big new artist in this genre including Bastille, The 1975, Jake Bugg and many more. I chose this genre as I have a passion for it myself and it is a popular genre of music. My product reinforces the commonly used style of front covers that other indie music bands use.The main image of the band member is surrounded by cover lines and one big main cover line in the middle at the bottom of the page. I made sure the person on the my front cover was stereotypically dressed in a Indie style, this is so you would instantly recognize it as that genre. The masthead of the magazine is in a bright colour and with a red background. This is similar to the NME magazine style. The masthead only covers the left corner of the magazine, this is a common convention of Indie magazines, unlike other magazines where the masthead is usually spread across the top of the cover. I have used a local 'up-and-coming' band for my main image, which is a typical thing for Indie magazines to do.
Here is an annotated picture of my front cover it shows how I developed and reinforced the forms and conventions.
Here my Contents page is annotated to show how I have reinforced conventions
My double page spread show my annotations on how I have reinforced the codes and conventions.
Overall I believe my product has successfully developed and reinforced the codes, conventions and forms of a real media products well.
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