This document discusses key conventions used in magazines, including writing style, color scheme, photography, page numbers, and fonts. It notes that while all magazines use these conventions, they do so in different ways tailored to each publication's style and topic. The document then provides examples from the author's own magazine where they applied typical magazine conventions, such as using a masthead style similar to other magazines, incorporating colored boxes on the contents page like another magazine, and adopting a comparable font and casual writing tone. The author aimed to emulate proven magazine conventions to make their publication seem like a real professional magazine.

2.  A few forms and conventions of a magazine are:
 Writing style
 Colour scheme
 Photography
 Page numbers
 Cover lines
 Barcode
 Price
 Date
 Font
 Etc.
Every type of magazine uses these conventions but they use them in
different ways to emphasise their style of magazine and what the
magazine is about. I have used these conventions throughout my
magazine so it poses as a real, professional magazine. These are the
key features of a magazine and allow for individualism of a magazine
and makes it unique.

3. Existing product mastheads
My masthead
In my masthead I have used the same
style as the existing products by
putting the head of the person in the
picture over the masthead. I have also
used colours that stand out to the
audience which looks similar to the
other three mastheads. I also used a
similar style of font as these
magazines. I followed the convention
of putting the top of the picture over
the masthead because it makes the
picture look good and stops it from
being partly blocked out.

4. The faded colour strips on my contents
page were taken from the djmag contents
page below and adapted. I used the idea of
having coloured boxes for each category on
the page and then decided to have a new
coloured box for each feature. I changed
the opacity of the boxes so they faded into
the picture and didn't affect the photo. I
used a mixed colour scheme of light and
dark colours similar to the djmag contents
page. I used the idea as I saw it looked
simple but still effective. I adapted it to suit
my magazine and it adds an extra touch to
the magazine. It also stops the photo from
looking so plain and adds some colour to it.

5. In the magazines I looked at
they all had similar fonts and Existing
all had a casual writing style. products font
They all used language which
would only but understood by
the target audience. I decided
to follow this convention and
used a similar font to the
existing magazines and used
a similar writing style. I
followed this convention as it
must work as all three
existing magazines I looked at
used a similar font and writing My font and writing
style. style