Conventions of music magazine.



This is a magazine cover from the magazine NME. The genre for this magazine is very similar to what genre my music magazine will be. There are many typical features from an indie magazine in this front cover. Firstly, the colour scheme is very typical for an indie magazine. Lots of red blacks and greys. Also it is very typical to have a big main image of the main members of the band. In this case it is using the same style as i am going to use in my music magazine by using the two front men on the band as the picture for my front cover. Including a mian band for the basis of your magazine is very important because they rae there for a particular reason and people want to find out what this reason is.It also has a quote underneath the bands name that will be from an interview that is inside the magazine . choosing a quote that catches the readers eye will make them want to buy the magazine and read the rest of it. Also included in this front cover are plenty of sub headings for other bands and people of the indie genre included in this magazine. This adds towards making people wanting to buy this magazine. The text is positioned around the band to make the band who are pictured seem much more important than what is written around them



                                               This is a contents page from NME magazine. In this contents page it keeps to the indie colour scheme of red black and grey. It keeps to the same colour scheme as the front cover for the backgrounds and the pictures. The font changes and the colour of the writing changes from red to black and even white in some places.It uses many phrases to catch the readers, such as this weeks 'Best gigs'. This makes you want to read this section because they arent only good gigs they are the Best. It includes 2 pictures joint together as one as the main article . Then down the left hand side it has a massive band index that shows all the bands who are mentioned in this magazine , and there are plenty., this is a major selling point if someone opened the page to see what was in the magazine. Down the right side it has different titles for whats in the magazine. The first one starting at the top is 'NEWS' and then has bands that have been in the news this week. Then its 'RADAR' which is all about new bands. Then 'REVIEWS' 'LIVE' and 'FEATURES. This is trying to show how much this magazine includes every week to try and get people to be interested in buying it. It also includes an advertisement at the bottom about subscribing to NME.





                                                                             

 As part of my magazine i have to include a double page article aswell as my front cover and contents page.  This is an example of a double page article from kerrang magazine. This caught my eye because of the choice of pictures.Also because of the big font at the top with a quote that is included in the interview underneath it. The first picture is of the lead singer performing and then pictures of them in the studio. It also includes a person from kerrang talking to the band and noting what they had to say.  For my double page article i want to keep the same colour scheme as shown on this example below. I will also have pictures of the band in their recording area and performing a song. On the right hand side of the article it has a teaser of the bands new tracks and it gives some information about them.I like this idea because it means people can know what to expect when the album actually gets released. This may be an idea i will use for my double page article. The actual article is of the band talking to kerrang  about creating this new album and how their ideas came about and what the game plan was. My article will be about the bands debut album and how successful it has been .