Question 2. How does your product represent particular social groups?

for my product I have tried to use modles of the age of 16-18 however, these modelswould attract ta target audience of the same age. However due to the lack of willing models I was forced to use older models for a couple of pictures on my contents page. The models on my pageare completley male models this is so because rock music tends to target a male audience. The character of Zack Waters who is the featured artist is clearly a maistream rock artist who mainly appeals to the male audience as none of the pictures he is seen without a guitar near him, with the guitar being an insrtument mainly played by males. However the male models in thecontents page are seen wearing leather clothing which is stereotypically linked with heavy rock/metal music

question 1. In what ways does your media use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Front Cover

My Front cover mostly conforms to the conventions of real media products, the feature article is centre stage with the head of the main artist slightly covering the D in "Kord". The sell lines for the magazine are in space in the top right side of the magazine cover and the bottom left with the main artist's sell line going across the centre of the page. In my front cover I decided to copy the set out of "Q" magazine . The website of the magazine is set right above the masthead this challenges the conventions of a music magazine as websites are normally situated at the bottom of the page. However with the slogan being under the masthead this conforms to the conventions of real media products .

Contents Page

With my contents page I decided to copy from an isuue of "Q". Again my contents page mostly challenges the conventions of a real media product, the website, page number, issue number and magazine masthead are at the bottom of the page which is conforming to real media products. My contents page which has been created over two pages shows clear indication to the readers what stories are on what pages. Like in real media products my contents page shows refference to, subscription, competitions, live performances/giggs and reviews on albums.

Double Page Spread

My double page spread again conforms to the conventions of a real media product. My double page spread article is in the form of a question and answer. At the bottom of the page there is a reference to the website aswell as the page number as well as the magazine masthead. The tittle of the article is in bold letters and goes acoss the both pages. My opening paragraph conforms to the convetions of real media products as it is in bold captial letters with the first letter being taller in height than the rest. Like in real media products the use off pull-quotes is important, in my article I have used two pull quotes trying to highlight important pieces of the article. 

double page spread final attempt

In my final attempt it was decided that my Image used in the first two drafts was two similar to the image used for the front cover of the magazine, where I decided to remove the background the image didn't stand out to the reader, my new image of my model sitting on a bench with a black acoustic guitar in his hand overlaps the left hand page slightly, however to try and restrain the amount of colours on the background I decided to remove the top half of the background, this creates a good effect two the articel , The writing towards the far side of the left hand side of the article is in a white font with a black outline to make it stand out against the dark background image.

Content/ double page spread pictures

For this picture I took inspiration from a picture in a special edition of Classic Rock

Double page spread attempt 2

Double page spread 1st attempt

Double page spread, rough draft

My first draft of my double page spread I took inspiration yet again from a special edition of classic rock magazine, where the image is on the left hand page and the Q&A section to the right hand page with a "Essentials" box informing the reader what they need to know about the certain artist. The information includes when the artist was born, what guitars they used and a classic albums section