The front cover of my magazine includes

conventions which should be included in the front

cover of every music magazine. These are;

- Masthead

- Puffs

- Cover line

- Central image

- Features

- Straplines

All of these were necessary to use to make my

music magazine look effective and appealing to my

target audience.

My contents page included conventions such as images, features included in

the magazine, a masthead and cover line.

It is important that my contents page looked appealing as when my target

audience looked at it, they needed to see exactly what was inside the

magazine and where.

My double page spread included conventions such as central image,

masthead, cover line and quotes. These all made the page look interesting

and professional. They also made it so it looked more appealing to look at and

read.

I had the writing on the one side and the picture the other side. This gave it a

similar feel to double page spreads in different music magazines.

I have pushed the boundaries in my music magazine as I tried to connotate

different things from different aspects of it.

With the font of the masthead, it looked rough and dangerous. That would

appeal to the target audience of quite rebellious older teenagers as it

connotes a sense of danger and ‘angry’ music.

The central image used is of the main guy featured in the magazine, he is

wearing a rabbit mask. This is present a sense of mystery to him and that in

the article about him, it gets under the mask and reveals a lot about him.

It also connotes a sense of trapped and talking out in the interview is giving

him freedom.

The writing I’ve used is all in sans-serif as I want my target audience to feel as

if they can relate to it and it isn’t a serious magazine but fun and not up tight.

The masthead font gives the magazine a sense of brand identity as it doesn’t

change in any magazine issue/weekly.

The house style of the magazine is the same is the fonts and color's don’t

change and it is can recognized as being the same when people go to buy it.