1. In what ay does your media product use, develope, or challenge form and conventions of real media products?

My magazine definately has some similarities to other media products of this form but at the same time there are some differences that i hope will make it a unique media product. It is similar to such other hip hop magazines such as vibe, xxl and the source, as it includes things such as:
. a date and issue number
. a large heading about what is inside
. a large title that uses two colours that stand out from each other making it bold and easily caught by a passing eye.

Other things that are similar to other hip hop magazines include the way in which it is written. This is a hip hop magazine and most hip hop artist have different ways of saying things i tried to include this in the interview.

Also the pictures i used gave a hip hop feel to it. as it was me that was in he picture i tried my best to look hardcore and gangster, and i think i succeeded in doing this.

So my hip hop magazine would seem to be no different to any other, but i hope this isn't true. i tried to change my magazines image from the traditional way that most hip hop magazines try to portray. Hip hop music has been always been given a negative image, this has probably come from the way most hip hop artist claim to be in gangs, carry guns, sell drugs and being pimps and this does not change in the hip hop magzines that are produced. so in my magazine my main objective was to shy away from this negative image and try and give hip hop a different more stylish and friendly look. which i hope i acheived especially in the kind of topics i chose to use in the interview and the ways the pictures were taken.

another thing that i hope is different to other similar forms of media is my front cover. most hip hop magazines have many pictures on the front covers of there magazines with loads of writing. i tried to minimize the amount of writing i had and had only one picture on the front cover. this i hope will give an effect of the person being really important as the heading says that he is the saviour of hip hop and he is the only person on the front cover and the picture is very close up.