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

My magazine has an authentic style for a music magazine. It has iconic elements that would be used in a magazine, such as articles, contents, front cover and iconic images for a music magazine, for instance having a recording studio in the photo set. I have thrown in eye catching elements, which would attract the reader into reading articles. Furthermore I have used the magazine's logo on every page, which the reader will be able to recongnise and see what type of magazine it is because it relates to the brand identification. I wouldn't say my media product challenges the conventions of a typical music magazine but it certainly follows them and develops them, it hasn't done anything different that wouldn't be seen in a typical magazine. Anything new or ground breaking that could have been done, would at some point be linked back to a music magazine somewhere in time because music magazines have so many similarities, it is unusual to come up with a new idea but instead are just written or approached in a different way. However I feel that my magazine would be viewed as a typical and traditional hip hop magazine and that it shows and expands on authentic traits of hip hop music, such as the title "Treble" which sounds like it has something to do with the urban music scene but it also sounds original and shows that creativity can be found in a music magazine.

Originally I planned to have the top design as my masthead but I thought it looked more suitable for a younger persons magazine as the design looks more eye-catching for a child's point of view, this led me to pick the bottom design as it looks more authentic to the music genre and I also added a variety of different colours so that it would standout to a audience and with the neon glow around the title, which would draw the readers into purchasing it as it looks more adult and it also looks more suitable for a hip hop magazine as it follows key conventions of other hip hop magazines (such as "VIBE") that I have analysed earlier in my blog.