Question 1

My magazine follows conventions of regular simplistic magazines that occur in the media. For instance, DIY, Fader and i-D. They are simplistic due to them not having much writing on them. The

font that is used for all these magazines are simple and, clear and mostly in white. I chose my font to be in black because the background was a light grey colour and the white may have blended into the background. My masthead is at the top like the magazine examples. However, their mastheads are not behind the image like it is on my magazine. It is a convention to have a masthead behind an image on a magazine front cover but these magazines have not included this; I would not call this conventional as it’s conventional either way.

My magazine follows conventions such as margins, text size, format

/layout, etc.

 The margins on conventional magazines are just slightly off to the edge of the page. My magazine does the same, this makes the page look neater and it so that the words do not run to the edge of the page. The layout of regular magazines like the one above has connotations to the layout of my magazine. The masthead is placed at the top and to the left in the professional magazines. On mine, it is centred; this isn’t unconventional because many other magazines have their masthead in the centre too. Most other magazines have the artist’s name or a play – on word on the front cover; therefore, I chose to go with “it’s the golden boys” for my front cover. This is because these are lyrics that are in a song that fits in the genre that my magazine is. If my audience knows what this is, then they may be attracted to read this magazine as they could associate the song that they like with the magazine or the artist presented on the front cover. Another reason my magazine is conventional is because the barcode is at the bottom right of the page. In general, most conventional magazines have their barcode at the bottom right of the page so I therefore decided to do the same to make my magazine conventional