Conventions

Conventions of a magazine

Strap line

Mast head

Splash

KickerBarcode and price

Button

Cover line

Teaser

Conventions of a music video

This is the music video for dog days are over by Florence and the machine.

Florence and the machine is one for the largest indie bands around. And this video shows that well.

This video has an abstract narrative. Meaning that she is trying to create her own story by giving the audience the location and the people involved, but they then have to decide what to do with them and how people got where they are now. In this case decide what is going to happen to the main characters .

From the start of the video you can tell that its an indie song, I think that these two shots show this well because of the style of the music also the song and the video don’t match and the clothes the people are wearing. Indie music is all about being independent and making a mark and standing out.

This shot also connote that these people are inquisitive, and a little nervous.

This connotes that the leading lady has been changed. But it being a medium close up, shows that she may also be a little scared.

This connotes that she is happier with where she is and is enjoying her time with no worries. And that she is now part of there group.

How my magazine follows these

conventions. Strap line

Mast head

Cover line

Splash

Barcode and price

Cover line

Conventions In my magazine I have tried to use all the conventions that most

magazines use. The only conventions I didn’t use was a kicker and a button. I followed the conventions of having a barcode and price, large mast head, a strap line a cover line and a picture of my main feature.

The conventions of a contents page are having regulars and features which I have followed. Also having small picture of the other features that are inside the magazine.

The conventions for a double page are that there tends to be one page with writing and the other pictures or a large picture with writing down the side but for my magazine I decided to mix the pictures and writing.

Forms For the forms I made shore that my mast head and the picture

on my front cover where the main things that you saw when you first looked that the magazine and all my writing for my cover line is clear and readable. Also another form is to have a contents page/s, I have one page for my contents page as my magazine is not massive and I don’t think I would have been able to fill two page. For my double page spread I made sure that I have enough information and also pictures to draw the reader to the article. And I made sure that I didn’t have too much writing.