Evaluation: Question 1 - In what way does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Use
The first thing that I have used on my contents page is the ability to subscribe to the magazine.  I think it is a very good feature and it is something interesting to have on the contents page, letting the readers know what they can do to have this magazine to there door every week. 
The next thing is the text 'This Week'. The reason I have used this is just to simply highlight to the people who are looking at this contents page what is going to be featured on this weeks issue. 
Develop
I have developed the top piece of text that says contents.  The Kerrang one has the Issue number date and some more information. I didn't feel the need to have this where it said contents on mine because of I had all of that information on my front cover under the bar code.  So I just went for a simple black box with the word 'Contents' in white so it stands out at the top of the page to people reading it. 
I have also developed the way that I have shown what number that my stories are on. I didn't want a big arrow coming out of the side of my picture due to how small it is, so just adding the number on its own in the bottom corner makes is show what page that story will be on.
ChallengeThe first thing that I have changed about my contents page is I have something completely different called a 'Quote of the week' meaning I get the best thing someone has said and put it there for everyone to see.  I was just an idea I got and thought I would be a good way to fill some empty space and also a few people have said it was a very good idea to have on there. 
I have challenged the style of the way I present my page numbers.  I didn't like the style of the layout of the page numbers and the stories.  I thought it looked to cramped together and you couldn't really just have a quick look and find out what stories you might want to read.  So I changed them just to columns of numbers and story titles so that when looking quickly you will be able to see what you might want to read.  Also I have added a border around the sections of the contents so you are able to see when a new section starts and I have also added a column that makes the numbers of what page they are on stand out even more than they did before.  Making it easier for people to see what pages all the stories are on.
On the Kerrang contents their is an editors note which has a picture and a small section of text which just says some information that they want to tell us.  I have gone for something completely different and added a 'Fan zone'.  Which is some one who has wrote in telling us something about himself and we wanted to add him to the contents page.  This is just a little something to make it feel like we like the people who read the magazine and want to give them something in return, like in this case 'a free years subscription to the magazine'.