2. Conventions of Music Magazines
• Large fonts.
• Price Tags
• Large Mastheads
• Large Anchorage Title
• Large Main Image(s)
• Sell Lines of what is inside.
• Website address to magazine website
• Social Media Websites
• Barcodes
• Subscription offers/special offers
• Editors Note
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media product-Front Cover
The Masthead is in a large
assassins dub font. The use
of having the masthead large
and eye-catching and at the
top if the page allows this
product to conform to
conventions of the magazine.
Sell lines promoting
what's inside of the
magazine. The font
colours are eye catching,
drawing the audiences
attention.
Sell line featuring R&B
music artists. This
makes it more
believable that the
magazines genre is R&B.
The main image is looking
directly at the reader,
allowing the reader to feel
engaged and part of the
magazine. Many magazines
do this to attract their
audience. The black and
white image contrast with
the light grey background
Anchorage title in white
stereofidelic font is eye-
catching and attracts
the audience. An
interesting anchorage
title will encourage a
reader to buy the
magazine.
The sell line below the anchorage
text is in black, contrasting to the
anchorage title. The anchorage
title gives more information
about what is going to be
revealed inside the magazine,
making the audience want to buy
the magazine and read more.
Barcode and price makes the
magazine seem authentic. It
supports the generic
conventions of a music
magazine product
4. Contents PageThe title of the page ‘Contents’
makes it clear that this is the
contents of the magazine. It is in a
large font, which is eye-catching
to the audience. The colour
contrasts with the black. This sets
a dark and light coloured house
style of the magazine.
The contents of the magazine is
in dark and light colours, and so
conform to the house style of
the magazine, and make it
seem organised, like a real
music magazine
The date is shown on the top of the
contents page alongside of the
social media websites for the music
magazines. This is a similar feature
in ‘Q’ magazine, so it conforms to
the conventions of music magazines
I have used an image here of the
feature in the double page spread, she
is positioned so she is turned away
from the audience, makes the
audience want to follow her into the
music magazine and read more.
Subscription offer to rave magazine,
this encourages the audience to
subscribe to the magazine and
receive future issues. Magazines,
such as ‘Q’ magazine offer
subscriptions.
Reusing the masthead in the
contents is another feature that
has been imitated from ‘Q’
Magazine. The similarity makes
this product seem more realistic
and that it conforms to the
conventions of music magazines
Editors note with
signature and image
makes the magazine
seem official and
approved by the editor.
Displaying the page
number over the image
is another feature
imitated from ‘Q’
magazine, so this
conforms to the
conventions of the
music magazine.
5. Double Page Spread
Feature headline creates house style and links the
double page spread back to the front cover of the
music magazine.
The use of dark and
light backgrounds on
the verso and recto
pages creates a house
style.
The main image is on one side of
the magazine and doesn’t
overlap text in this double page
spread, I wanted it to be neat
and organised
Page numbers and dates at
the bottom of the music
magazine is part of the
house style. This imitates
NME with the date
alongside the page
numbers. The numbers
being in an impacted font.
In the Q&A, the questions are marked in red and the
answers in white, both contrasting colours. They are
organised into rows, similar to the ‘Q’ Magazine
article in the double page spread analysis 2 post.
The headline is in the
Stereofidelic font, and is
coloured in red and black. the
headline overlaps the image,
which is my own twist on the
‘Q’ magazine double page
spread that has the headline at
the top of the page. As a twist, I
have added a smaller headline
‘Any more you want to tell us?’
which I like because it slightly
imitates how the front cover
has a sell line below the
anchorage title. This goes
against the generic conventions
of a music magazine.
The lead is in a larger font than the
actual Q&A, and is imitating what
the NME double page did with a
lead.
