Genre Chosen: Vintage Rock

I have chosen to create a magazine based around the genre of Vintage Rock. I am aware that there is already a successful magazine in circulation focusing on this genre, however that magazine is centred on an older age range, and for mine I am going to be focusing on a younger audience.

Conventions:

1. Look at Uncut, Mojo and Vintage Rock.
2. Masthead: 1/6th of the front page, often in red, black and or white.
3. Other big, bold sub-headings and straplines.
4. Colours: black, gold, silver, grey, white, pink, red and yellow - shadows.
5. Big variety of fonts.
6. Cover stories: Exclusives: main article on a specific singer or band.
7. Lots of cover stories.
8. Features: free, interviews, tours, information about stars and what's happened to them, reviews, what's on, events, gigs, tour guides, critics choice, ads for CD's, downloads, whats's new, greats.
9. Puffs: circles, rims, jagged edges - some overlap masthead 2 or 3.
10. Pugs the price, date, issue at the top. Bar code bottom right or left.
11. Banners: not many, lines used occasionally instead.
12. Freebies!

Pictures/Photography:
Often the front cover has the full photograph of the star in medium/medium close up/wide shot of group all looking into the camera, centre framed.

• Group/Individual singers, male or female.
• Modern genre representations and show traditional older representations too.
• Locations are usually studio - shots are cut out - usually front cover image overlaps the masthead. Smaller imaged and DPS are studio/location/gig/stage/walls/in rooms playing music - lots of instruments to mise en scene.
• Props are: instruments/microphone.
• Costumes are: music genre and style specific, era specific lots of black and white shots.

Fonts - size, colour, etc:

Sans serif/Times New Roman/Large block font/round fonts/download fonts that reflect the genres and era.

Layout

• Lines
• Dots
• Boxes
• Thirds
• 3D
• Shadows
• Circles/Angles
• Stars
• Borders on pictures