Evaluation-1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

There are many conventions of rock music magazines. They usually contain puffs advertising free gifts such as posters. The masthead is usually at the top of the page. They normally have two or three cover lines down the side of the page relating to articles in the magazine and one main cover line about the main band/artist featured in the magazine. These are all features that I included in my cover. 

Contents pages typically feature pictures relating to articles anchored with corresponding page numbers. They also usually have a list of what is in the magazine, broken up by heading such as ‘news’ and ‘features’. Again, these are features I included in my magazine. 

Double page spreads typically feature an image on one page and the text on the other. They usually have an introduction and then a series of questions with the answers from the person being interviewed highlighted in a different colour. They often have a title spanning both the pages. I included these features in my double page spread.