AS Media music magazine evaluation

1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or
challenge forms and
conventions of real life music
magazines?

2. During the stages of researching i looked at
professional and students magazines of the
genre of rock. The magazines gave me a guide
of what conventions I needed to include. The
reason I looked at a variety of different rock
music magazines is because they know exactly
what their target audience want, thus making
them buy their magazine
Other conventions include the masthead which
is usually located at the top of the page either in
the left corner or centre. The fonts used are also
very important because every music magazine
genre has its own style of fonts. Also Rock
magazines have their editors not on the contents
page. The colours used for the magazine relies
on the genre and audience. In this case the main
colours used are white,yellow,black and red.
When it came to making my music magazine, i
took into account the conventions needed,
simply because I know my target audience will
buy it seeing as the conventions are appealed to
them.

3. Masthead:
>Kerrang its self is a
sound a guitar makes
stereotyping the type of
genre the music
magazine
>The lines on the
masthead act like
strings of a guitar
reinforcing the
stereotype of a guitar
being a rock icon
The central image is
of the lead singer of
Paramore. We can tell
that she’s the main
focus of the issue of
this magazine. The
colours she’s using
also reflects the house
style of this magazine.
Other bands in the
magazine, this makes the
audience want to buy it
more as it has more about
their favourite bands
Barcode
This suggests
that the
audience is
willing to pay
for the
magazine.
They seem to want to
attract a female audience
so they’ve added posters
which include males
The size of the text
shows what’s important
in this issue. In this case
it’s the main headline.
Kerrang make their text
big so it can catch their
target audience’s eyes
Having “Your”
highlighted makes
the magazine more
personal to the
audience
The house style presented in
this magazine is consisted of
the colours Black,White and
Yellow
Information Bar
Has a competition which makes the audience more keen into buying it
It also makes the target audience a more active audience than passive

4. Information bar
Puff
Primary headline
Central image
Masthead
ISBN code
Issue date
Secondary Headlines
My Magazine shares similar conventions as
Kerrang! Magazine. The Masthead is the biggest
text on the front cover, It’s also big and bold , This
draws attention to the audience as it attracts their
eyes. Those who are loyal readers will know the
name of the magazine even though it’s overlapped
by the central image. I think that the font I used
for the Masthead matches the genre for my music
magazine as I didn't use bubbly and happy fonts.
Housetyle I used was the colours
Black,White,Yellow and Red , Similar to the
Kerrang magazine one . I also took into
consideration that my main article had to be the
biggest Font and I made it stand out so the
Audience knows what the main story is. The
secondary headlines are slightly smaller than the
Main headline’s text.

5. Page
Numbers
Title of
page
Issue and
cover
date
Picture of featured
article
Editors note
My contents page has similar
codes and conventions to a
professional rock magazine cover .
I used the colours red, black,
yellow and white since they’re my
colour scheme and also the colours
that define the music of rock.
I made sure I had all the correct
conventions required for a rock
magazine so I researched and
found contents pages that I could
easily recreate. I found out that
most magazines have a double
page contents pages. But I
followed some of their style
despite them being a double page
contents page and mine being a
single one

6. Pull Quote
Columns
Heading
Relatable
images
My Double page spread shares the
same convention as a professional
rock magazine. I added a rip where it
says “the untold story” I found that a
ripped effect was very popular in a
rock magazine so I thought I would
try to add it to my magazine to give
more layers of meaning to it .
My Double page spread follows the
same colour scheme as my front cover
and Contents page as it’s the colours
used in this genre of music magazine