Evaluation question 1 : In what ways does your media

product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real

media products?

In order to produce a successful magazine, I realised that the generic magazine conventions would have to be included.

I started By researching similar magazines in the market to not only what conventions they had, but also how they were used to appeal to their target audience

The NME masthead for example is an abbreviation. From this, I decided to produce my own but I wanted it to connote something about the indie rock genre.

I produced the masthead ‘Ind.E’ which means independent express, however the abbreviation is meant to seem like the word ‘indie’.

Other conventions were included and took inspiration from NME. I decided to develop them in order to create an original house style.

For example, on the front cover, instead of using black and white imagery, I used simplistic yet contrasting colours in the red font on the blue clothes of the module.