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

Conventions in NME compare similarly to my own; 

I kept with the conventions of a music magazine is to ensure my music magazine fits with expectations of a  magazine, I did analysis of three different magazines to look for continuing evident conventions to make my magazine look like generic. I had to take all of these conventions on board and ensure my magazine had all of the codes and conventions evident to look like a magazine, as seen in comparisons to magazines below;
Conventions are important as this shows and notify the reader of the magazine and its context without these codes and conventions it would be difficult to sell the product and initial it would not look like a magazine. Important factors are areas like a bar code which allows the magazine to be sold and the name of the magazine to identify the magazine itself.