I think my media product does all three, it uses, develops and challenges the typical forms and conventions of real media products.
I think my magazine definitely challenges the codes and conventions of real media products, when I think of alternative music magazines, I think of quite busy, with a range of color, with lots of adverts and promotions on it, but I wanted to portray my magazine as professional as possible, it quite plain, but the main attraction of the magazine is the main image. The model has red hair and I want it to come across as the magazine is about the MUSIC. If you compare my magazine front cover to a typical media product they can come across quite different. The magazine displayed on the right has lots of text scattered around the frame of the picture with lots of sub-headings. But in my magazine I have tried to keep the sub-headings to a minimum as I want the reader to pick it up of the shelf and want to read more, There is quotations of articles inside, which I think is not that common in music magazines.
But then I do think my magazine is part of new type of magazine, where less is more. Magazines like NME are starting to do it, when having a huge artist on the front cover is enough for people to go buy the magazine. But all together my magazine as a whole has most of the typical conventions of magazine, it has a main title which is ICON, I wanted the name to have a recognizable logo + a famous singer on my front page, which will be appealing to the audience.
In this media product, I have used the same sort of design, concept of the NME magazine (to the right). In subheadings, both mine and the other magazine have a quotation of the article included, we both have a list of artists included inside the magazine, and have a similar font.
So to conclude, my magazine both challenges and develops real media products.
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