Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Q1: In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines?

I created a Wordle to demonstrate the key conventions of a Front Cover...
  
On the whole I followed the key conventions of a real music magazine; I did this as I found the more traditional Rock magazine style looked best for my genre. I followed the traditional ‘Z’ Formation to create the ‘Sweet Spot’ for my Main Feature image and key cover line to attract the reader to my feature article. Furthermore, I stuck to a traditional colour scheme of black, white and red, but also added a fourth colour of Gold to challenge the conventional Rock magazine.

Here is an example of KERRANG! magazine following the red, white and black colour scheme, it also demonstrates most of the Key conventions...

Here is my magazine front cover, labelled with the Key Concentions I have used...

I created a wordle of Key Conventions of a Contents page...

On the whole I followed the key conventions of a real music magazine contents page. At the top left hand side I placed my editorial, explaining to the reader briefly what is happening in this months issue.I also inserted the masthead and tagline in small above the editorial. I broke my contents up into sections and used subheadings to make it easier for the reader to navigate to the page that they desire, written down there is the headline and a brief summary of what is in that article. Furthermore the use of images of the key articles are anchored by their page number to make it even easier for them to get to the page they want. My contents page continues with the house-style therefore making it easily recogniseable owing to the consistency in brand-identity. I also inserted the issue number and date in the bottom left and applied this to every page inside my magazine for consistency. However, typical magazines are broken up into three or more columns to create a grid style, but I didn't as I wanted to challenge some conventions of traditional music magazines.
Here is an example of KERRANG! contents page which clearly portrays the grid formation and follows many of the Key conventions in a magazine...

Here is my magazine Contents page labelled with the Key Conventions I have used...

I created a wordle of Key Conventions of a Double Page Spread...
Overall I followed many of the key conventions of a real music magazine. My main image is in large and takes up almost the whole left page, and the text is shaped around the image. My double page spread also has multiple entry points, for example the pull quote, this allows the reader to get to information they desire. For my introduction and headline I used a quote to which the article is about and made a drop-cap, and ended it with a command. To make it easier for the reader to distinguish between question and answer I used a colour from the house-style. I inserted two more images of my artist and added captions, briefly explaining what she was doing and wearing and right alligned the text. Here is an example of NME's double page spread, it follows some Key conventions of a traditional music magazine...

Here is my magazine Double Page Spread labelled with the key conventions I used...


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