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

Throughout my music magazine i have used multiple examples of conventions, on of them being the pug on the right hand side of the front cover, these are used regularly on professional magazine to make a particular cover line stand out, it has the same effect on my front cover as it is large & eye catching, it also conveys more features of the cover as it gives the cover more variety rather than having all the cover lines near each other in the same font. My pug is advertising a competition, many professional magazine have competitions as it encourages people to buy the magazine. I have included a bar code with the price next to it to make sure that the cover looks realistic. I placed the price next to the bar code so that the price is easy to find, and this is usually where the price is placed on professional magazine. I challenged the convention by having the website on the front cover with the price, I feel that this was the best place to put it without it looking out of place. I have used the masthead convention in the same way as regular magazines, placing it at the top of the cover. I have used and challenged the left side third convention , the two main stories and the bar code are on the left side third however because of my main image is positioned the names of all the artists are at the top right, I did not want any of the cover lines covering the main image. Also I wanted to make the cover look busy so felt that not all aspects of the cover should be on the left side third. I also challenged the strap line convention by placing it at the bottom rather than the top, I feel that because of my image and the thickness of the strap line that it looked better at the bottom rather than the top, I think that in this case challenging the convention was successful. Also I have used the colour scheme of grey white and blue throughout the entire magazine. I also used the convention of having the masthead in the contents page, most professional magazines do this . The aragement of my contents page has been highly influenced by MixMag. I have different sections such as regulars, tunes, vip etc. this following the conventions of most magazines also it enables the target audience to find what they want easily. I have followed the convention of page numbers this is a must have to ensure that the contents page is correct and clear, also under each story there is a breif section about it, these are all conventions to make the contents page correct.