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

Title of the Magazine.

For the masthead of my magazine I used the font 'Orator Std' which is a font in Abode Photoshop CS4. I used this font because I believe that it matches the theme of the magazine fairly well. Also the masthead is placed in a black box. This I believe conforms to the conventions of real media products because for example magazines such as Kerrang! use the black box and bold fonts which conforms to the rock/indie theme magazine as these are colours which are associated with rock and indie which is what my media product covers. Also the magazine 'Q' conforms to this to but it uses different colours. This is because 'Q' is more of a lifestyle magazine whereas Kerrang! focus' more on a specific genre of music, like my magazine, which is why I decided to follow the conventions of Kerrang! Rather than 'Q'.

Mis-en-scene of the images.

All of the images I used for my media product are from live gigs at local venues. I did this because 'Gig guides, upcoming talent and reviews' is the selling line of my magazine so I took and choose photos to promote this. I feel that the photos I choose to feature on my magazine promote this well because they are all true reflections of the magazine and what it includes. One thing I’d have liked to done was to get more images of other bands because the ones featured in the magazine are all taken at the same gig so the mis-en-scene of the images are the same through-out the magazine, some variation of the images may have been better in the magazine.

Costumes and Props.

The costumes and props used in ‘UnderGround’ follow a traditional indie of theme of shirts, jeans and acoustic guitars. I believe that this follows the conventions of other magazine which follow the same type of genres as my media product. As well as this, the props featured in my magazine eg. Acoustic guitars, electric guitars, drums could all be found in pictures in real media products which follow the same genre.

Title font and Style.

For my title I used the font called ‘'Orator Std’ which can be found in Abode PhotoShop CS4, I then added a black box to put behind the title to emphasis the title and make it stand out from the rest of cover. This conforms to conventions of the typical rock/indie magazine because black is a common colour used in these types of magazines. Another way in which my magazine conforms to typical musical magazines is because the title uses to largest font on the cover followed by the main cover line and the selling line.

Music Genre and how the cover suggests it.

The music genres covered in my magazine were indie/rock, I think my magazine cover suggests this well because the photo I used on the cover is of someone in a indie band, wearing typically indie clothing and holding an acoustic guitar which is also associated with indie music. This is why I choose to use this image for the cover because I felt it put across the music genre/s covered in my magazine well.