Music Magazine research and planning

Q Music Magazine Front Cover

• Bold Masthead- 1 letter with a block red background and a line of writing beneath it. 

•  Close up photo of a music celebrity's head. 

•  Main cover-line is large letters at the bottom. 

•  Plain background/ no fuss 

•  Small cover lines surrounding the main image 

•  Plug/ Puff in top right corner 

•  Large plus sign to the right of Liam's eye with more celebrities names underneath stating that there are lots more inside. 

•  The main cover-line is a pun of Liam's band Beady eye. 

• Majority of cover-lines are to the left.

 Q Music Magazine Contents

• Contents masthead covers the top of the page with the theme colour and the title of the magazine.
• Articles in the left third and picture in the right third covering most of the page.
• Sub heading 'Features' is in the theme colour red.
• 2nd best article is mentioned first with a small picture and then a paragraph about in in red.
• Page numbers are in a bold black.
• Minor headings are also in bold black with an underline of red.
• A small paragraph about what the article involves is then underneath.
• All very straight and ordered within one rectangle.
• The photo is from above and to the side giving a different view of Liam's head.
• Theme colours of red, black and white carried through.
• Page numbers are in bold so you can go straight to it.
• No editors note.
• Doesn't follow normal conventions; it is simple but stylish. 

Q Double page Spread

• Red, white, black brought through still.
• One side is for the article and the other is for the photo shoot.
• Small quote at the top of the page but in bold so you are interested to see the context from which it came. 
• A large red letter fills the article page (it is the first letter of the article) but is is transparent enough so you can still read the rest.
• Article is in three straight columns aligned to the left.
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• The start of a new paragraph is signified with the beginning letter larger and in bold.
• Magazine name is small in the bottom left with the page number and issue date next to it.
• The photo on the opposite side is a striking image of the musician in question. It takes the whole page.
• To the right of them is a quote from the interview with a red rectangular block above it.
• Beady eye, the bands name, is in the top right hand corner. 
• Double page spread is conventionally the big/main interview of the main feature article. 

Prezi of conventions 

These are screen shots from a prezi that I created for the research and planning section. This prezi details the conventions of my chosen genre of music magazine. This screen shot is of the whole prezi, I used a record player as the image because it was the closest thing prezi had to music.

This slide is full of magazine titles that I think are relevant to my genre, they include MOJO, Billboard, Kerrang!, Classic Rock and Spin. They are 'alternative' music magazines that wouldn't be classed as the norm.

These are the typical conventions of a music magazine.

This is how I would incorporate what I have learnt about alternative music magazines into my own music magazine.