Conventions of a Music Magazine-

Recognisable Masthead- ‘NME’ is mainly hidden by the main image which shows that it is not as important.

The picture is layered over the picture, it has more importance and looks better when on top.

Colour- The main colours on this page are black white and red.
The connotations of the colour black are ‘mystery’

Main Image-Direct mode of address to directly communicate with the audience, the layout of this is that is in the central, the image is the first thing that the customer notices so it has to be noticeable.

Main Coverline. Is in the centre of the main image to make it more noticeable, and it gives a clue as to what is inside the magazine.

Coverlines- Are on the left side of the page of the page and what the coverlines say, attract attention to the audience. They have a play on words of ‘The Killers sink their teeth in’ this makes it seem more hard hitting and edgy and abit humorous. They have quotations from the artists in one colour and the sentence relating to the article in a different colour this is to distinguish between the two.
Barcode and price and webpage.

Representation of Leona Lewis

In this image she is looking directly into the camera- a direct mode of address, and she has her mouth slightly open with her hand to her mouth- she is trying to entice us in towards her because she a confident and sexy woman and she is flaunting this towards us.
She is leaning slightly which is defining her feminine curves- this is again flaunting her confidence within herself towards.
She is wearing a small black dress with grey leggings, this contrasts her fair make up but blends in with her flawless skin- she is wearing leggings with the dress other than nothing at all- to maintain her dignity. She knows she is a sexy woman but she doesn’t want to give too much away at once, so the over all look makes her more dominant. She knows she is sexy but she is in control.
Her hair as beautiful golden curls hanging above her shoulders, this makes her look more feminine and just heightens her confidence.
The shot itself is a medium long shot this gives us as the audience a good look at her body posture and her facial expression.



This magazine cover follows the main conventions of a magazine front cover for a school/college magazine, it has a main image which again, is giving a direct mode of address to my audience. I stuck with the same tag line at the top of my magazine to make it easily recognisable to m audience, I also kept one of my coverline consistant as well, 'Read you opinion! Real Students! Real Life' this is to make the magazine more recognisable and they will have the motivation to read what is inside the magazine. I used more incentives to make the magazine more appealing in the this issue, I made some things in bold to make the more eye popping to the audience. And again I stuck with the same colours because I was going with a 'winter' theme so I kept the colours of- white and blue mainly- the connotations of these colours are winter and cold. This is why I featured an article on how to beat the winter blues this year and stay cheery- this will appeal to my audience because they would've been feeling the cold weather and will want to know how to improve on how they are feeling.
If I was going to do this again I would've manipulated the image abit more and editted it so you could see less of the background and more of the person.
And I would've made the coverlines even bolder to make them stand out more.

1st Magazine Cover

This magazine cover follows the typical conventions of a school/college magazine cover. I chose the title 'Sponne Shout!' because it was a title that my survey found to be the best one and so I stuck with it. The main image I used is a medium close up and the mise en scene of the image, is inside a school and she looks like a student, because she is in a school environment and she is holding onto some books so she looks sophisticated and eager to learn. In the image she is also giving a direct mode of address to make the audience more enticed into what she is doing. I have coverlines on the left and right side of the magazine cover and I chose the colours white and blue for the font colours, because those colours are quite neutral with the main image on the page. So I thought it went quite well with it. Although it's not very clear on this image but I included an issue date and price at the top of the page. To make the cover look more 'busy and crowded' to make it look like it had more inside it, I included a smaller image at the bottom of the page and in the picture they are 'jumping' and so I thought it'd be a nice chance to have the pun of 'jump for success'  including abit of light hearted humour relaxes the audience abit more. I included a website address at the bottom of the cover so if the audience want to contact us to find out more about the magazine...they can. I created a tag line at the top so they would read it and think that it really was the best magazine in the county.
I created a few incentives to make the magazine more appealing and to make people buy my magazine.

This magazine cover follows the typical conventions of a magazine front cover, it has a main image- where she is giving a direct mode of address and it is a medium shot, so we can see her facial expressions clearly and what she is wearing. For the font colours I decided to stick with the 'winter' theme I had going on...I kept with the colours of white and blue because the connotations of those colours are winter. I stuck with the same tagline for each of my magazine to keep with consistancy.I also had the same cover line on the front of my magazines 'Read your opinion! Real Students! Real Life!' I stuck with this because then my audience will recognise my magazine and will know which one it is. I also included some incentives on my magazine cover to entice my readers and to make them want to find out more about my magazine. I also included a barcode and a small website address so then my audience could find out more about my magazine if they wanted to. If I was going to improve upon this magazine cover I would have manipulated the image abit more to make it more wintery and to make the image look more professional.

Media Portfolio G321- Media Music Magazine

Hello, My name is Georgina and on this blog I will be documenting my progress as I do an AS level music magazine for Media.
I will keep this blog updated regularly.

-Gina