In what ways does your media

product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real

media products?

Masthead

Main image

Features

Anchor text

Barcode

and Price

Issue

date

Masthead

Codes and convention of mine

Bold, Square, eye catching, top right of

page, high contrast colour scheme,

snappy name, memorable.

The see through cut out of the number

‘1’ is challenging the conventions of the

magazines I have found. However I do

think that this has been very affective in

making the Masthead memorable and

this therefore doesn’t make it too

dissimilar to the codes and conventions

listed above.

Main ImageMy main picture isn't the common style of

picture. I haven't found any magazine with a

double exposure however there are some with

interesting pictures like this one. The picture is

depicting the stereotypic indie singer song

writer. The social groups being portrayed in the

picture is young males, however due to there

being zero sexualisation of this male I feel that

the magazine will still appeal to females and

male. The social group/s being represented in

this picture is the young indie/ hipster group

due to Sam having piercings, wearing all black,

loose clothing, wavy slightly messy hair and of

course an acoustic guitar. The props, back

drop, direct mode of address and medium

close up shot is something that you see on

many music magazines

Issue date This is a very common feature of a magazine front page.

It goes by the following conventions; small, easy to read,

always in the same place through out issues. However

the date doesn’t always conform to the same format for

example it may say 01/05/15 but I went with the one I

saw to be most appropriate and popular.

As you can see the date is usually situated

by the Barcode, I didn’t do this as I wanted

to put the website near the barcode. Also I

think that it looks better where it currently

is. I did do experimentation with this

feature of the magazine.

BarcodeI had change this once as I wasn’t happy

with the barcode that I had used before.

This type of barcode is the type that you

should expect to find on a magazine.

Barcodes on magazines move around a lot

depending on what magazine you have also

wat issue of magazine you have as shown

bellow with 2 examples from clash (left 2)

and Q (right 2). A common place to find a

barcode on a magazine is the bottom right

which is the place that I decided to put mine.

The price is usually positioned close to the

barcode (like mine). The website would

normally be where you find a issue date

however because the website is very short I

decided to put it here to keep the page

looking neat.

Anchor text This conforms to what you would

expect to find on magazine like

clash, NME and Q magazine.

The conventions are Artist name

(miller) title of article (Amplified),

high contrast against main

image, bold text ,closing line (a

divine interview) and positioning

(bottom of the page).

Sometime you will find that the

font used on the Anchor text is

the artists own font. Such as the

example of ‘the 1975’.

FeaturesThis is an insight into what articles are

inside the magazine. They are used to grab

the audiences attention. They are Bold,

high contrast, smaller than the anchor text,

positioned to the left side of the page bellow

the masthead. Features are common on

every magazine that I have looked at during

my research into making the magazine.

House Style My house style is very minimalist, which

highly contrasting colours these two

styles are commonly found in other music

magazines. However its very rare that a

magazine would use a picture like my

one. This will make mine stand out,

memorable and will raise my brands

identity.

Wire and clash have a similar house

style to mine.

NME and Q have high contrast colours

but are not minimalist.

Masthead

Issue number and date

Featured section

Must read section

Gadget section

Regular section

Previous,

current and

future issues

Date and issue numberInformative (use and

grats), top of the page is

easy to find, regular

readers will be kept up-to-

date. You find the date in

this place onmany music magazines. Keeping the date in the same place thought all the

issue excluding one off special issue will make the reader feel comfortable

with the magazine (use and grats).

Q position theirs in

the same place as

mine (top right).

Clash also only

have the date in

the top right.

NME also put the

date in the top

right.

Other copiesThese thumbnails of other copies of the

magazine will eventually become all

previous copies but for this example the

are future copies as it a new magazine.

They are the only images on the page

which therefore carries the house style

of minimalism. I have found one other

example of a clash contents page that

displays previous copies in the same

way. I am therefore going against the

codes and conventions of the

stereotypical music magazine.

Clash uses the high contrasting

colours to make the thumbnails

stand out just like I have done. This

is a counter typical contents page

for clash and music magazine on a

whole.

Headings

More important sections at the top, this is

the preferred reading. Its common to find

the most important sections at the top of

the page. I used ‘K1’ a lot to raise the

brands awareness and to give the

audience a sense of confidence in the

magazine (preferred reading). It would be

odd to find a music magazine that doesn’t

use headings in the same way as I have.

Every magazine I looked at use heading

in order of importance.

NME use

them in a

column

format rather

down the

centre of the

page.

Q magazine is the

same as NME.

Clash use

headings

the same

way I have

done.

LayoutFrom a young age we are taught to read

down the page. Therefore this layout of

the text flowing down the page is natural

for people to follow.

The red arrow represents the natural

path of the humans eye as they read.

Making my layout very logical.

The linear layout

Is used across the

music magazine

industry. Seen

here in Clash

magazine.

House StyleThe house style of the contents page is

similar to that of the front page as they would

of course be part of the same magazine it

therefore needs to flow. I have carried the

minimalism approach into the contents page

and have stripped it back to only nesecery

information no pictures. This is counter

typical of music magazines as they tend to

have a high energy approach to the contents

page.

Clash as mentioned

before has a very

similar house style to

my magazine.

These are examples

of a stereotypical

magazines contents

page

Page numbers Pull quote

Main image

External

logoPage numbers

Headings

Colum text

Main imageProduct placement, unusual (house style),

high contrast, back drop (mis sen scene),

body shot. I have covered the article

writers face to create a layer of intrigue to

make the reader interested by the image

therefore taking their attention. This isn't a

common convention of music magazine

they normal have a medium close up with

direct mode of address if there isn't direct

mode of adress there will at least be the

artists face.NME. Q

Pull Quote

Insight into the acritical bellow the text- reference to a acritical writer.

Creates a personal relationship to people interested in Abbey (use and

grats). Different font uses to give the text punch ( eye catching). Pull

quotes are common practice as shown by the examples bellow.

NME us pull quotes a

lot in their magazines.

Q magazine also use pull

quotes, they often

reference the person that

said the quote. Like I have

Page Numbers

Bold, cluttered, non-conventional, high

contrast to back ground.

the style of numbers that I have chose

are non-conventional in the sense that

the word and the numbers are different

sizes and over lay each other. The

conventional way to display page

number is in a plain format on next to

the other.

This is an example from rolling

stone. As you can see their page

numbers are very small and don’t

have the word ‘page’ before them.

Rolling stone have the

stereotypical page numbers for a

music magazine.

Layout

The arrow is to represent the way I feel readers

eyes will be naturally attracted to this page. This

is a very common direction with in the music

magazine industry. You will often find the main

image being very dominate like mine as it

creates a relationship with the reader (use and

grats)

Kerrang

example

House style

The house style of the double page is the same as the other two pages I

have done. I have done this to give it continuity, just like a real music

magazine could have. By keeping the colour schemes similar (grey, white,

black) and keeping the whole thing very minimalist I have believe that I

have kept to the same house style throughout the construction process.