Conventions of a music magazine.

The conventions of a music magazine are as follows;

• Music related Masthead, this is iconographic of music because NME stands for New Musical Express this takes up the top left part of the magazine cover.


• Images that are suitable for a music magazine (bands, artists), this helps the reader identify that the magazine they look at is a music magazine.


• Selling line on this magazine tells the reader, what this does is tells the reader what the main marketing point of that magazine is. Or the philsophy of the editoral team.


• Related music information to that magazine this helps define the actual genre of the magazine IE music, and also the genre of what music is in the music magazine.


• Fonts and colours that will relate to the audience, this makes the magazine more presentable to the audience.

My Action Plan

Here is my action plan, this is what I have to do in this part of the Music magazine project.

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  Brief
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  Define LIIAR
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  Conventions of music magazines and compare to non music mags
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  Conventions of music mag front cover, both in music and non music mags
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  Conventions of contents pages, both in music and non music mags
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  Conventions of double page spread, both in music and non music mags
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  IT drafts; front cover, contents page, double spread
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  Hand drafts; front cover, contents page, double spread
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  Mind map
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  Mood board
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  Textual analysis
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  Planning; Camera shots, name, audience, programmes, cover stories etc.
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  Target Audience.
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  Pictures, Diagrams, Videos, Links
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  Typography- fonts, size, colour?
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  Organisation- Models, location, costume, props, angle.
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  Denotation -What you see. & Connotation - The meaning
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  Evaluation.
  

LIIAR

L-Language is the term used to define components of a magazine, such as the masthead, main cover line, cover lines, main image, colour scheme, dateline, selling line and bar code.

I- Institution is the term used to describe who is behind the production, the companies like television channels, magazine publishers, radio stations and other companies.

I- Ideology is the term used to describe the idea of what the magazine is selling. Things that are important that should be included into it. So for example a video games magazine's ideology would be the actual games itself and for the ideology of a music magazine would be music.

R- Representation is the term used to define how something is presented to someone or soemthing. For example how we see the way the protaganist acts in a film or how a picture is taken of a band and how we see it.