1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (2)

For my magazine, I used a three column layout which on my contents page I used a single line to distinguish between the columns. The line itself doesn't connect to anything, allowing it to look more radical, thus staying in keeping with my magazine's aims overall and also, the line is a trend that many Jazz magazines use. Another aspect of my magazine is the use of different font sizes that I have used on the contents page to highlight the more important stories to the reader, this is enhanced by the use of a serif type font. A convention that I decided to break (from mainstream magazines) is again, the limited use of images and increased amounts of writing, however as you can see, one of the images does bleed to the edge of the page which admittedly does bow to the mainstream trends. Finally, in keeping with lack of images, the use of white space is another break of conventions that I have adapted for my magazine. As you can see below, many contents pages revolve around one large image as a background, however I have only used white space for my background with transparent grey and blue boxes to highlight important features, a trend which continues throughout the whole magazine.