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

The magazine I have designed uses many of the conventions of a regular magazine. It has a unique logo, stylized and memorable, and is accompanied by a strapline to boost its importance. The articles are advertised in a column down the side of the main image and, as in most magazines, the model fills the page and is both relevant to the genre of the magazine, uses eye contact and smiles. There is a clear use of screamers both to advertise articles and other contents and there is a clear colour theme which is identifiable to the magazine. There is even the use of freebies. Inside, on the contents page, the colour theme is continual, and there are featured articles advertised with large images on one side, whilst the other is again dominated by text advertising the articles the magazine has to offer.
However, even through all of this, I feel there are subtle differences between this and a simple music magazine. In fact, StudentBeat is more like a teen life magazine with a musical slant, which promotes not just bands, but a student's own opportunities in life, aiding revision and exams, to finally getting auditions and jobs within the music industry. Thus, instead of being a simple recreational read, it is also a tool of learning reference and careers information.