Using, Developing and Challenging Conventions

For my media product i decided to use the print option and make a music magazine with a R&B/hip-hop genre and titled the magazine 'Base'. I think that it fits in with the typical conventions of a R&B/hip-hop magazine as i have researched different magazines of this genre and tried to make my magazine fit these conventions. Firstly the main image on the cover is often a very masculine well known male artist with hip-hop features being shown in his style. However my main image is quite a seductive and revealing picture of a woman that shows a lot a feminine features e.g. having hair down beside face, and some flesh on show, so this challenges the typical conventions for the main image of a hip-hop/R&B magazine. The title of my magazine fits in with this genre as it is related to music and is an easy name to remember. The font used is very big and bold and follows a consistent colour scheme, it is also quite grouped together so i have followed this layout for my magazine. The example that i used for my magazine cover was VIBE eg

The contents page of my magazine again challenges most of the typical conventions of this genre magazine as you would usually see a masculine male artist, where as i have used a female in a very seductive pose revealing a lot of flesh. However i have found another example of this being used; Contents Eg

which is where i got my idea, i think that this has made my magazine consistently appeal to the same audience by making it more feminine.
My contents page has followed the same colour scheme as the cover so that the magazine is clearly the same throughout and looks more effective rather than having a large range of different colours and looking too busy, so here i have followed the typical conventions of a music magazine. The text also follows the typical conventions as i have used a very small font and used to headings about the features inside the magazine which is commonly used in R&B/hip-hop magazines.

The double page spread of my magazine does challenge the typical conventions of this genre magazine as i have again used a female as my main image. She is posed again revealing some flesh to appeal more attractive, and is sat in a pose with her legs up to show them off but in a more descrete way. The layout of my double page however does fit in with the typical conventions as i have grouped the relative questions and answers together to make it clear for the reader to understand. I have also again stuck to the main colour scheme so that it is consistent throughout my magazine, and used a white background to make the image and text stand out, this is also commonly done on the double page spread of this genre magazine. An example of a double page spread similar to mine would be Double Pg Spread Eg
although i decided to use a different pose for the main image.