2. MASTHEADSWhen creating my masthead I took inspiration
from several different other magazines, however
my main inspiration would have to be ‘Q’
magazine.
• I chose to use one letter for my Masthead “R”
which stands for “Rock”
• I used two colours White & Red because most
existing mastheads only use a maximum of
three colours and I thought that two would
make it look both simplistic and professional
and also it will make a contrast between the
two colours to make it stand out a lot more so
my audience would know what it is.
• I placed the masthead in the top left hand side
of my music magazine as conventionally this is
usually where the masthead is placed so it’s
easy to see.
3. FEATURE STORIES• Whilst making my product I also took
into consideration feature stories and
where I was going to place them
within my product. I followed
conventions by placing these
feature stories on either the left of
right hand side of my magazine
either side of my main image. The
magazine uses certain font’s and
colours to highlight certain parts of
the feature so I used this convention
within my music magazine as you
can see with the artists names I
chose to put the first part of the
name in white text and the second in
red, this was to make them stand out
more.
4. FOOTERS
• Although not every magazine includes a footer on the front cover of their
magazines, I thought that I would include this convention in my product.
Here are some examples below of footers used in real music magazines. As
you can see from the examples below footers are usually used to advertise
more feature stories and artists inside the magazine. I used mine to feature
more artists that I couldn’t fit on the front cover to try and attract more
people to read my music magazine. Once again I used the colours white
and red to follow my colour scheme of red, white and black so that my
overall product looks more professional and so that I follow conventions.
5. BARCODES
• Barcodes are a necessary convention to include in a magazine however
they are not a selling factor of the magazine. They are usually placed at the
bottom of the magazine so that they are out of the way and don’t take up
much space and also not that noticeable as their only purpose is when
scanned through in a shop. I followed the normal convention of barcodes
when creating the front cover to my magazine as I placed my barcode in
the bottom right hand side of my magazine. As you can see from these other
examples they also include the date and issue number of the magazine so I
also chose to include these conventions next to my barcode too.
6. PLUGS
• Plugs are a convention of magazines but
don’t really apply much to music
magazines. They usually advertise an
exclusive story or section within the
magazine. They are used to attract
readers to read your magazine by also
advertising competitions within the
magazine. These are some examples of
plugs that I found from already existing
music magazines and also my plug. For
my plug I chose to make it red white and
black to follow my colour scheme and
also placed it to the top right of my
magazine so that it was still visible but also
out of the way.
7. MAIN STORIES
• Conventionally main stories on the front
cover of a magazine are usually in larger
text then all the other stories and also
usually in a different font. This is so that
they stand out from the rest of the stories
as this is one of the main features of this
magazines issue. Furthermore
conventionally they usually have a pull
down quote taken from the main article
to give the reader a look into what’s in
the article so I included this into my front
cover too. I also included the artist name
within my feature story as this is the main
selling point of my product
8. MAIN IMAGES
• Main images are conventionally
framed as midshots/ from the
waste upwards and usually
depict one artist/ band as shown
in these front covers. When
taking the picture for my front
cover I followed conventions by
framing my main image in a
midshot and used a range of
clothes and props to target my
specific target audience so that
it would stand out to my
audience more and follow the
conventions of the genre of
music magazine that I created.
