In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines?

I think that my music magazine uses the conventions of a music magazine and also challenges them. I used the normal conventions for my music magazine to make sure that it looked professional. I used conventions such as:
· Masterheads
· Editors letters
· Headlines
· Music Interviews
All of these typical conventions I used in my magazine. Along with these conventions I wanted to make sure that I put my own ideas into my magazine.
Front cover
In the front cover I think I challenged the typical music magazine conventions by having a quote of the artist with a swear word in it on the front page. Although I obviously edited it out the swear word so that you can only see star texts in place of the actual letters, however many music magazines would not have that on their front cover. The reason why they wouldn’t is because many people wouldn’t approve of that being on a magazine, and it may be controversial, which is why is decided to put that specific quote on there. It seems rebellious, controversial and risky but that is what my magazine is about, which is why it fits so well.
I developed the conventions of a music magazine because all music magazines obviously have a Masterhead, however not many music magazine shave slogans. Although I have seen them on other magazines, I think that this magazine is one of the very few that do have a slogan on it also. I choose to do this so that it will improve the ‘R&I’ brand and make it stronger.
Contents
I think that I followed an easy structure and went with the normal conventions of a music magazine with my contents page. I did this because on the first page I was risky and wanted to play it safe. Also I feel that the contents page shouldn’t be too busy or have anything complicated on it because it’s supposed to be a page that the reader can quickly glance at whilst moving through the rest of the magazine.

Double Page
For my double page spread I mainly stuck with the standard conventions of a music magazine, the reason I did this was to mainly focus on the artist. The front cover challenged those conventions so that the readers when picking it up thought that this was something new and fresh therefore I think that once the audience has picked up the magazine I should play it safe, as I’m appealing to the teenage years to late twenties therefore some of their parents/guardians may not approve.
I however did develop the conventions by instead of just having pictures of the artist; I had pictures of the artist with matching quotes beside them. Even though these did not necessarily meant to go with those quotes the pictures portrayed the overall emotion of the interview without the reader having to read the interview.