In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Double page spread)

On my contents page i used some conventions but tried to develop them in my own way. Below i will run through my developed conventions.

     My first convention that i developed on my double page spread was my main story title. In all music magazines, the title usually crosses the crease of the page extending over two pages. As you can see on the Q magazines double page, the story of Lily Allen is spread over both of the pages. This is the reason i chose to do this. I also wanted a graffiti affect on the brick wall background, so for these reasons; thats why i used this convention.

     The next convention i produced on my double page spread was the use of page numbers. These are used in all magazines are are vital for readers to find the stories inside. There is no real explanation why i used them, just because all magazines do. All magazines also use another convention i have used on my double page spread. This is the use of multiple columns. Most magazines use a minimum of three columns in the main story article. For this reason, i have used three and also put a picture in between the columns which is a music magazine convention. The image has to relate to the main story.

     The next convention i produced on my double page spread was the use of my colour scheme. I didnt want to use a white background again, so i come away from my scheme and added the brick wall in behind my model. I still created my colour scheme with my four chosen colours. I was going to try the effect of the Q double page, but i challenged the convention of a plain background and used my own idea.

    My model is making strong eye contact with the readers, i tried to produce this convention as Lily Allen does in the Q magazines. I thought this was vital as when the readers flick through, it will catch their attention to the main story. I also used the sexy pose as Lily does to give it more attraction to the readers. So attraction was the main reason i challenged this image convention.

     The last convention that i produced on my double page spread was the use of a question and answer. These are very popular in music magazines as the readers want to know what their stars say. I chose to add this in my double page spread to take up space on the left side page and to give it a verisimilitude look to a real music magazine.