This is my analysis for a classical content mood board.

1. Content Mood board
By Callum McCormick

3. Conventions for a Classic Music magazine
content page:
 The word ‘’Content’’ is place in the right corner of the page
 The images related to the feature articles are places in rectangular boxes
 The numbers of the featured articles are placed in the box
 The images have a darker tone in contrast to white background
 The images contain images of musicians
 The background is white
 External advertising to other media. Aka radio
 The puff articles are arranged in a list format
 Feature article is in the largest image
 There is a description of the free promotional material
 Editors note
 Contains subheadings to group different features together

4. Mood board analysis
• The mood board consist of three classical magazine from three
distinct publications. They each share conventions, in both their style
colour and images. This provides valuable insight into conventions
that most classical contents page share.
• The first convention consist of the layout of the page. The content
title block is shown in the right hand corner in magazine 1 and 3.
While magazine 2 the title block is below the images. The page layout
consists of images related to the feature article placed is rectangular
boxes, this is true with all the magazine. However the position of
these rectangular image vary and are spread out in a different fashion
for every content page.

5. • The layout of the filler articles are arranged in a list format. These
articles are also arranged into subheadings to group different features
together. Another convention of design is the size of the feature
article, this image is the most predominate image on the content
page designed to catch the eye of the consumer, since that will be the
article the majority will want to read straight away. 1 and 3 of the
publications on my mood board contain the feature article as the
largest image. The layout for these publications reveal several
conventions that will be incorporated into my magazine.

6. • The second convention is the colour and images used on the content
page. In each of the publications the content page background is
white. This is to create contrast with the darker tones of the images,
making them stand out. The images are used to give the consumer an
idea as to the content of the most interesting articles, they generally
contain people either in the act of playing an instrument or just the
musicians. The majority are in a direct mode of address, except in
contents page 3. The convention seems to be a verity with the feature
article either playing an instrument or ignoring the camera, or in
direct mod of address with the reader smiling warmly, the images also
contain the number of the page. This creates an ease of accesses