The document discusses conventions of different music magazine genres. Rock/metal magazines typically have a cluttered layout with lots of bold text in red, yellow, and white against a dark background. These magazines focus on one main artist on the cover. In contrast, pop magazines have a "cleaner" front cover with more creative photography of the artist in colors that match the magazine's style. The document discusses the creator's preference for the brighter, more varied aesthetic of pop magazines compared to the darker, uniform style of rock magazines. They decide to design their magazine in the style of Clash magazine as a pop-focused publication.

1. Rock/metal magazine.

2. In every magazine, the masthead is either left or centrally aligned and is situated at the
top of the magazine. Another connotation of all music magazines that is applied across
all, despite different genres is that there is only one artist who is placed in the centre on
the front cover and this is the main focal point. If there is more than one person on the
front cover it is usually because they are part of a band. The central image is then
covered slightly by the artist’s name which is in large, bold, block capital writing and is
usually the main feature in the magazine. Smaller coverlines are then placed around the
central images which advertise the rest of the content within the magazine.
Each music magazine covers a specific genre of music. Rock/metal magazines such as the
above, (Kerrang and NME) tend to be very cluttered with a lot of writing. The
connotations of this, informs the audience of the genre the magazine covers. Their house
colours are often red, yellow, and white (for their text) which sit against a dark
background allowing the text to stand out and draw the audience in. Personally, I don’t
like these connotations of rock magazines and prefer a more ‘cleaner’ front cover as a
pose to one with a lot of text. These ‘cleaner’ front covered magazines tend to have the
music genre of pop. For my preliminary task I have decided to create a magazine in the
genre of pop as this is the genre I am most familiar with and can confidently target my
audience.
After researching the pop genre, I have found that the central image tends to be more
creative photography and the colours the artist is wearing matches the house colours. As
long as taking media at Alevel, I also do photography so I feel I could produce something
of a similar quality and style to what these pop magazines (such as Clash) have done. Pop
magazines are bright and varied in colours in contrast to rock/metal magazines that are
dark and stick to the same house colours and this is the aspect I like the most about pop
magazines. I would like to create something a similar style to Clash magazine as a pose to
we love pop as this kind of creative and arty style is better suited to me and I don’t like
how cluttered we love pop looks.