Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my front cover I copied the dialect such as "cute", "pics" and "OMG" to demonstrate friendliness  and fun. I then I put a picture in a box and put the sell line within it making it look conventional, this also makes it pop out and the white is good colour contrast towards the pink background. I then tried to copy the speech bubble that says "we love pop" this tells the audience that it's a pop magazine and makes the cover look interesting. The banner of the name is chunky and curly connoting a bubbly personality and the font's name called "ravie". The exclamation mark demonstrates loud and crazy.The world exclusive at the top tells the audience that it's a special interview that you wouldn't find anywhere else.  I also copied the font of "inside" but I put it at the bottom because of my skyline. 

In my contents page I used the traditional layout of the columns and pictures.  The arrows pointing at the page numbers demonstrate that those pages are must be read and the highlighted numbers makes demonstrates that it's important. At the top the title of the contents page is ''inside the mag'' it's free style hand writting this demonstrates how a girl would maybe write her wish list of what should be inside the mag. The title of page is also very conventional but unconventional too because it doesn't identify the contents page as contents, it's not a stereotypical contents page it doesn't list features and regulars. I included love hearts making it conventional and a fun way to categorise the magazine this also represents the young teen audience because usually they're in to flowers and hearts.

In my double page spread I also included all the conventions, I used a fancy font on my drop cap because it's very feminine. I used pink through out the magazine keeping it in continuity. The font of the models name is the same style as it was on the front cover. This demonstrates that Emily is the main story. The sub heading is in big speech marks this is a conventional way of making the page look fun. The music notes tells the audience that this article is about a singer. The pull quote is conventional as it appeals the readers eyes first so I stroked it black and filled it with hot pink demonstrating that this article is inspirational, the date and website is always highlighted because it's key information and lastly the page number is in semi colour filled with black, this makes it a conventional double page spread.