The document outlines several conventions of magazine design including: 1) Using a colour scheme of yellow, white, black and red to create a rebellious style and allow certain elements to stand out. 2) Featuring a large masthead and fonts to catch readers' attention. 3) Including informal language, a scattered layout, and casual photos of artists to appeal to a younger target audience. 4) Organizing content through headlines, categories, images, ads and page numbers to make the magazine easy to navigate and full of appealing content.

1. CONVENTIONS OF A
REAL MAGAZINE
Q1-CONVENTIONS

2. Colour Scheme
of yellow,
white, black
and red.
Masthead
behind
artists head
to show
dominance
Cover story and
standfirstCover lines
Main Image
Barcode, price and issue
The Masthead is also
very large to catch the
attention of their
target audience
The use of the darker colours such as
the red and black creates a rebellious
house style.
Furthermore, the colours white and
yellow contrast well with the darker
colours.This allows the designers to
choose what bits of the magazine they
want to stand out.
Large, bold fonts with
cracks in it to
make the fonts appear more
aggressive to fit the style of rock. In
addition, the fonts are sans serif to
appeal to a younger target audience.
Artist appears casual
To give the impression
he doesn't care.
Language used is informal and
colloquial to appear rebellious.
Plus, to make the magazine seem full of content
Scattered layout, to
make audience
think that its worth
the money

3. Headline
Categories
Date, Price and Issue
Neat and well organised layout so its easy for the readers to
find the page they want to find.
Various Images of the most important articles
Advertisements which would appeal to the target audience
Editors Note
Page Numbers so the readers can find the article
Slang language to appeal to target audience
Content which, would appeal to the target audience

4. Title which crosses
both pages but is
mostly on the right
Main image
which, is on
the left.
Smaller images of the artist
Text in columns with kicker
and pull quotes
An aggressive house style
Artists name
Standfirst
Interview
style