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.

Finished front cover

Ideas

Here is my ideas page for the front cover of the magazine.

Evaluation

For this task I was set, I had to plan and then go onto create a college magazine. My first thing to do was to research what actually goes into a magazine or the codes and conventions of a magazine. I then went onto what went into a College magazine, so after analyzing all of this and researching a couple of more things that I needed to then adding them all to this very blog I then went on to planning it.

I first looked at who would my magazine be aimed at audience wise, then going on to say what programs I would be using to actually create my final pieces. I then went on to looking at which ways I could present the magazine to the student population. I then started creating drafts for the contents page and front cover this would then help me decide how I would present my work in the final copy. After I had done this I then set out my layout, this would then give me a better idea of where things will be placed.

After doing more planning (seen in this blog), I started to take photograph, my original idea was to take photos of a student stood outside the main building with the wyke sign placed behind the model, but these shots weren't up to good standards so I had to go back to the drawing board, after deciding on what I will do I then went on to taking the final photos which were of a student looking/working on the table, I took multiple shots and picked the best one I was going to use.

I then went on edit my image, using photoshop I highlighted the model, then selected the outside area (the background), I then made the background black and white whilst the the model and folder stayed the normal colour. This will appeal to the readers because it will be something different to look at and original

In publisher I started to create the front cover of the magazine, seen as though I had already drafted the front cover it didn't take me that long to create the final front cover . My masthead is the strongest point of the cover because it has a USP which is that its going down the left grid, which is different to most magazines out there. I used bold purples with a blue background so the magazine would stand out well then other competitors. I think these colours will appeal to the student population.

I used most coventions of a magazine for example a masthead, barcode, articles and much more, this is good because then alot more people will see it and know its a magazine.

I learned how to use publisher in this brief, so from now on i will have a good knowledge of publisher for future briefs.

Selling line

Here are some selling lines I may add into the magazine

• Creating a better College life for you
• Helping you get through college
• It's the only magazine you'll ever need
• A rough guide for students
• Getting you through the year
• The best College magazine ever
• Made by students for students
  

I will chose one of these and add it to the finished product.