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

In this slide I'm comparing my contents page and the ways in which it uses and develops forms and conventions of real media products. My contents page of my magazine and nme`s contents page are similar and the way in which it uses and develops forms and conventions is both magazines have the headings of the page at the top and create the house style that runs throughout the magazine. There is a main picture on both magazines that links to the main story and fills the page. The headlines of the main story stand out to the other articles featured on the contents page, making it stand out to the audience. The layout is consistent with the subheadings of the catergories listed and then the articles relating to them listed underneath, i chose this idea because i thought that it looked more appealing and professional than just a list.

The way in which it challenges the forms and conventions of real media products is by including a logo which is consistent on each page and gives the magazine an identiy because whenever the audience saw the logo then they would relate it to the magazine which makes the magazine well known. Also my magazine doesn`t include a side bar like nme where it features the "band index" i feel that if it did the page would look over crowded with text and become unappealing to the audience because of it being time consuming to read all of it.