4. COVER
On my front cover I have followed the convention of having a masthead. It is
placed at the top of the page it is called stereo. It is in a dark red colour and
really stands out.
I have one main image as the background of my magazine. I have really tried
to make my image of my cover star Shan.G to stand out, I have changed the
colours of Shan around so that she seems more quirky and stands out, I have
also used props to make it conform to my theme a bit more.
5. I have not included any cover lines on my front cover because I wanted
to do an unconventional magazine so after doing some research I found
that most of them did not have cover lines they would just have one
word or a quote. I chose to do a quote saying “music is my life”.
The layout of my magazine is quite conventional because my masthead
is at the top of the page, my barcode is at the bottom in the left hand
corner and my picture is in the middle of the page but for my quote I
have rotated it and have put it over part of my picture and normally
magazines would try to put them round the sides of the image.
The fonts I have used on my front cover are different. For my
masthead I have used a font called eurostille, My quote font is called a
hundred miles. I wanted to use different fonts because I am doing an
unconventional magazine and with my quote I wanted it in more of a
handwriting font to make it more unusual.
6. CONTENTS
My contents page follows conventions, as it has sub-headings which divide
my magazine into certain areas for example, I have: features, music and artists.
I have a masthead at the top left hand corner of my cover which is the same
colour and font as my front cover so I have made sure I am keeping the colour
scheme the same throughout my magazine.
I also have a image of my cover star Shan.G as my background but it is
faded so it looks a bit different to the other contents pages.
7. ARTICLE
In my article I have used some conventions. I have used a picture of my cover
star in the article as it is about her life.
I decided to do an interview about Shan’s life and I think it has worked out well
I wanted to make it slightly different so I have my image in the middle of the
double page and have text wrapped my text around it, which I really like the unique
and quirky effect it made.
I have also, used the same colour scheme dark red as I have in my cover and
contents.
9. FRONT COVER
In the begging my front cover looked very different but it wasn’t really working,
so I changed my ideas and it turned out very different.
I looked at some magazines that were not really conventional and I really liked
them. I liked them because they were very minimal but striking at the same time and
I wanted to do something similar.
The magazines I looked at were called INDIE, PAPER and LULA.
I loved how unconventional they were and I tried to do that with my magazine
as I had one picture which had effects on and used props such as a camera and
flowers and then I also only have mu masthead and a quote.
10. CONTENTS
For my contents page I looked at some contents pages that were a bit
different and I wanted to take some ideas form them and then make them my
own. My idea for my contents page came from myself as I had the idea of
having my picture as the background but faded it out to make it relate to my
INDIE theme more.
I wanted to keep it simple like my front cover so that it was still an
unconventional magazine inside.
11. ARTICLE
For my article I looked at some of the Q magazine articles so I wanted to
take some of their ideas and adapt them to my own. But because I am doing an
unconventional magazine I wanted to make it slightly different to other
magazine articles.
I looked at the Lady GaGa article in Q magazine and I really liked it but
wanted it to be a lot more unconventional than it was It was really hard to find
quite an unconventional article. Some of the things I did were that I have my
image in the middle of the page and text wrapped my text.
13. FRONT COVER
I have challenged conventions on my front cover because the look of my front cover is not
the “typical” look of what people expect to see as a front cover of a magazine .
My masthead STEREO is at the top of the page and then I have a image of my cover star
“Shan.G”. I think the things that make my magazine unconventional are that I have tried to
make my front cover really simple but quirky at the same time. I wanted my magazine to be
different to other magazines out there.
I have changed the colours of shannon’s picture to make it stand out more and pop out of
the page. Also, I have used a old fashioned camera as prop, which isn’t typical but I think it
added to the genre of INDIE and Shannon’s style. I have also used a handwriting style quote
which isn’t normally typical of a magazine either.
14. CONTENTS
My contents page is quite unconventional because of my picture.
Originally I had just my photo of Shannon on my contents page but
then I wanted to try it as my background and to make it more indie I
wanted to change the way the photo looked.
I finally changed the colour of the image and then faded it into the
background so that it was a bit different to other contents pages that I
had seen.
15. ARTICLE
My article would be unconventional because my image of my cover star
Shan.G is in the middle of my double page spread, which isn’t normally done
because the picture will crease but I really like the effect and I then have my
text wrapping round the image.
Also, the image of Shannon is quite unconventional because one of her eyes
is being covered by an old fashioned camera and the other eye has weird eye
makeup around it which relates to Shannon and her quirky style.
