2. Front cover draft:
Rock magazines
nowadays
conventionally
use the colour red
in their colour
scheme to
connote passion,
rage or
aggression which
in the genre’s
stereotypically
personality.
I have
conventionally
made the most
important article
featured in the
magazine the
largest font to
connote its
importance over
other articles.
I have
conventionally
used props such
as the guitar that
act as musical
Unlike Q’s front cover I have displayed a profile shot iconography. I have conventionally displayed smaller images that go
rather than action shot, however this Q magazine with their cover line and act as a teaser.
cover has unconventionally created a background
However, what this cover hasn’t done that I have is
whereas it normally leaves it white.
feature ‘FREE CD’, or ‘FREE POSTER’ to attract the
reader.
3. I have
conventionally
sectioned off the
articles.
I have
conventionally
numbered the
images to their
article.
I have
conventionally
kept the colour
scheme
throughout the
pages and
labelled the
contents page
‘Contents’ as to
not confuse the
reader or neglect
the page.
I have like Rolling
Stone magazine
made the images
the eye grabber in
the page as the
contents page
can be Similarly I have always kept musical icons present
considered throughout the pages to support its genre to the
unimportant and fullest.
easily ignored.
4. Like Q’s magazine I have conventionally display the
main image on the left and left the right page
essentially text with limited photos.
Again, I am keeping the guitar prop
throughout.
This page however only slightly keeps to
the house style and colour scheme by
displaying a little red, and the other
colours previously neglected are made to
come out more.
What I have done that this page has unconventionally
not done is place a quote from the article onto the main
images page to act as a teaser and interest the reader
into reading the article.
However, Q’s main image is an extreme action shot of
them in reality performing in concert, or has been
edited extremely well for this to come across, whereas
my main image looks posed compared to theirs.
I’m my article I have gone for a question and answer
type article which is very conventional in many rock
magazines for the individuals personalities to come
across and therefore the essence of the rock genre.
