I looked at a variety of different layouts when I was researching existing magazines at an earlier date, the magazines that I looked into included "Q", "Kerrang", "NME" and "Mojo". The house styles of these magazines mainly chose three colours to use consistently throughout their magazine. Here you will see a comparison of the magazines that I looked at and my magazine:
I chose to use orange, black and white (My background is a white/grey gradient) but these were chosen to establish a house style and identity for my Magazine so that consumers can recognize my magazine easily.
The genre that I wanted my magazine to be would be Pop but it also could be classed as a Jazz magazine because I featured an "artist" called "Lewis Wilde" who was "inspired by Frank Sinartra". The conventions that I considered when making my magazine were:
- Title of the Magazine
- Font and Style
- Costumes and Props
- Mise-en-Scene of Images
- People
- Content inside (Written)
- Genre and how its displayed
- Front Page Layout
- Contents Page Layout
- Double Page Spread Layout
The title I chose for my magazine was "Chord" and the reason for this is because it is a word that relates to music so it gives the audience a clue about this magazine when they havent purchased the product before. The definition of Chord is: 'A group of (typically three or more) notes sounded together, as a basis of harmony.' A unique feature in my title is that the first letter has a black background behind it (Keeping house style) which is used as the logo for the magazine, the idea was obviously influenced from the "Q" logo but I added a title to my logo to make it challenge the conventions of the other magazines. My title also includes a sub-title which is "Young talent in the North West" this also indicates another clue to the audience (that the magazine includes talented people from the North West). The font that I chose for my title was Bebas which I downloaded from dafont.com. I chose this font because it looks smart but it is also very bold allowing you to make that word stand out. I researched into what fonts other magazines use and almost all of them used San Serif but I wanted my magazine to be different.
When I thought about the use of Mise-en-Scene in my front cover image I had to research clothing, lighting and angle of the shot. I knew that I had to get the correct clothing to connote what genre my magazine was, I found that most of the clothing for a pop magazine was informal but my front cover artist had more of a jazz influence but he was still a pop artist but it was hard to make him connote the genre I wanted (pop) he supposed to be like Michael Buble so I found that he had to look smart and that is why he wore a suit (I was going to get him a hat but decided not to so he could display his hairstyle).
For the fonts and style I wanted to give it a Pop/Modern feel so that it would connote the genre of my magazine and I was trying to get my audience to recognize what type of magazine it was and what genre it was straight away. The content in my magazine is a mixture of formal and colloqiual language. I also made use of buzz words on my front cover as you can see "Exclusive" is put in the font Bebas and the colour of the word is changed to make it pop out at the audience. The fonts that I used in my magazine are: Bebas, Geo Sans and Neou.
The genre I was trying to connote has been achieved in many ways, The Main ways being the model on the front cover, His clothes suggest that he is smart, well-off and modern and the fonts and language that was used.
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