Evaluation Question 1: In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

My music magazine to me personally, has challenged and developed the forms of real media products because firstly, it is a magazine that would be rarely seen in stores and is a genre that is quite understated in the music industry because it isn't so "mainstream".
 I came up with the name "Unsung" because I wanted a name that represented music artists that aren't really talked about much and that are undervalued in media, I had to choose a name that would be quite memorable and bold and also relates to music which was quite essential for me.

As the theme of my magazine was folk I wanted the house colours to be quite "earthy" and natural I tried out the title in many shades of greens,oranges, yellows and reds but the main colour that stood out for me was green because it made the cover look quite fresh and because I wanted to challenge the conventions of magazines I didn't want to go for the typical red and black colours which I noticed many magazines had like NME and Kerrang, therefore I chose a vibrant tone of green which I think has worked quite effectively. I made the title quite thick so it is easy to read, I didn't want the font of the title to be too fancy and distracting from the main act on the page so I went for something simple and noticeable because that was the aim for my magazine- to be seen and be heard by more people. The colour green is seen all of the way through my magazine to make the magazine pages fit together and don't look to mis-matched.

The magazines that I chose to develop were "Songlines" and "The Fly" which are both online magazines. A way in which I developed these magazines is by making my magazine a product that is sold in stores because I want my magazine to be noticed by people. I have used the some aspects and conventions of "Songlines" because I found their contents page really interesting, with all of the tabs showing which page an article was on, I slightly changed this for my magazine however because instead of using multi colours, I chose a variety of different shades of greens and changed the sizes of the bubbles. I think the mise-en-scene of my magazine has and also used many of the conventions of magazines that I have looked at but I have developed those conventions to fit in with the style of my genre and audience.

Overall I think my magazine has been quite effective at developing and challenging the forms and conventions of real media products because I think it would be quite memorable and I think people would know by the front cover that it is a magazine that is quite different to most and has a "folky" genre.