Conventions My MagazineJoe Clark

Front CoverThe title that I used for my magazine is good as the kerrang one, as the font and colour scheme sticks out, also the city theme that I created at the bottom of the black box looks very good and conventional.

The top banner is very similar to the kerrang magazine as incorporates the same colour scheme accept I changed the first three bands to the “loads more” text as I felt that they didn’t related to each other and it sticking out would be good.

The bottom banner was very hard for me to do so I did something which I hadn't seen in many other magazines and that was only have half of one, mine contained information about posters that where in the magazine, the barcode and the QR code, then the cover story's went into the bottom left of where the rest of the banner should be. I felt this worked well and gave a good balance to the page and also was very conventional as it was different and didn’t follow a certain style.

The posters that I had made where a good mix, I got one of a boy and the other as a girl hoping that this would boost the magazines popularity to a wider genre. I was going to have three like the kerrang magazine but I felt that this would be to many and would of overcrowded that side of the magazine.

The main title for me was the most important part of the magazine as it had to bring people into the magazine but also get over the main message to the reader, as the kerrang one did I had the name of the band as the biggest font on the page apart from the title and then put other relevant text around it which gave a quote from the band, then I used a circle symbol which I made for the world exclusive part, I have gone on to use this as the house style for the rest of my magazine, using it in the contents page and the double page spread as I feel it adds a familiarity to the magazine which is what many other relevant magazine do and at the time of doing it felt like the right thing to do as there was no consistency in the magazine.

The picture that is on my front cover is conventional because of the layout and way they are standing, there is a clear leader and then two people behind him who are very different in the way that they are standing and the position that they are in.

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Contents page

This is the symbol that I have used on most of my pages and is the main symbol for the magazine, its conventional with the colours that I have used for it and looks good as the background, after seeing this the reader show grab on to the fact that it is the, also the split page I used was very conventional.

This is the editors message, the picture is maybe abit un-conventional but I thought that it looks good for the photo. It has the relevant information on it.

The menu section of my magazine is mainly the worse part of it, its unorganised and messy, the colour is conventional

The pictures that have been used here are relevant to the stories that are inside the magazine, my picture isn't anything to do with the double page spread but it still has a part in the magazine, but there was a story that was in the magazine about the picture.

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The double page spread that I made was conventional because of the consistent colour scheme hat I used throughout the magazine, this also meant that when I went to make this I had to use the same colours to keep it conventional.

The pull quote that I made is very good and conventional because of the bold nature of it and they way that it stands out from the rest of the page, also the masthead at the top right of the page is conventional because its big, red and very bold.

The picture that I used for mine is very conventional because of the expressions and the clothes that they are wearing. It wouldn’t be conventional if they where standing there with lolly pops and skirts on.

The page numbers are conventional because of the placement of them and how they are one of the three colours that I have used mainly throughout the magazine.

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