Thursday, 24 March 2011

Evaluation - conventions.

When i did my research into magazines and conventions i anaylised three front covers, three contents pages and three double page spreads.
These are:
Front pages
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Contents pages
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Double page spread:
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By doing this i found out which were the conventions which were most popular in each magazines. These are:
Front page:
-Masthead
-Large pictures
-Consistent colour schemes
-Consistent fonts
-Emphasis and larger fonts on things which are more important
-Cover lines of things included into the magazine
-Formal language
-Price , date and barcode, issue number. 

You can see i have included these into my front pages.(Refer to bottom picture) I followed conventions becuase i felt that's what makes magazines sell. My image is different to ones i have seen before in other magazines. When doing my survey i found out that women were most wanted on the front of magazine covers. As my genre is R&B i felt that this shot is appropiate as you can see her tatoo on her back and i think this relates to my R&B genre. My pictures have been cut out from the backgroud and edited, which is also a convention of most magazine covers.


Conventions of the contents pages are:
-Masthead
-Page numbers
-Descriptions
-Things in coloums
-Various little pictures and relation to articles
-Colour schemes and fonts consistent to front pages
-Abbreviations sometimes used. 


I have included most of these on my contents page. (refer to picture below.) I didn't want to have loads of writing on my contents page so i decided to do three main highlights of what's in the magazine I then included a "also in this issue" sections because when styding magazines before this feature was included often. I also included a picture of my front cover on the contents page because I'd also seen this done before. My images are fitting into conventions as i have cropped the backgroud out and edited them. I have included props like a guitar and alochol because it relates to my articles.





The conventions of a double page spread are;
 -Main pictures and other little ones
-Masthead and cover lines underneath
-Page numbers
-Descriptions
-Colour schemes
-Larger writing at the beginning of an article introducing
-Set out in coloums/paragraphs.

When making my double page spread i used most of the conventions above. (see below pic) I tried doing lots of things with my double page spread to see what worked best. I decided it was best to put the main picture seperate to the text, and the little ones just featured inside the text. I also added a larger caption as something was said in the interview which was important and a line which i thought would attract the audience. My images fit conventions as my genre was R&B i used props to make my pictures more effective. E.g Glasses, high top trainers, gillet ect. I also followed conventions by cutting the pictures away from their background. The reason why i had to add blue into my colour scheme when doing my double page spread was because the black was hard to see underneath the pictures.























edited contents page

Edited front page

Monday, 7 March 2011

Magazine Survey

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