Music Magazine-Analysis of Magazine-Contents Page-Codes and Conventions

Here I am going to now analyse three magazine contents pages to learn what the main codes and conventions are of a magazine. In the project before I had to analyse three contents pages, therefore o am going to use the same contents pages but improve them.

After analysing three contents pages I now know the key aspects to use to attract my target audience. By using am unusual font and big text size the masthead I will instantly catch the audience’s eye. Using a main background colour and two other colours that contrast well together it will make the colours and objects stand out to the audience enticing them to look through the rest of the magazine.  

Music Magazine-Analysis of Magazine-Front Cover-Codes and Conventions

In order to understand the codes and conventions of a magazine i have analysed three magazines. As i had to analyse the ocdes and connventions of a magazine in the project before i have used the same cover pages but improved the analysation.

After analysing these three magazine front covers I now know the key aspect that make up the codes and conventions of a magazine. When I start designing my front covers I know what aspects to use to attract my target audience by using certain colours, sizes of photos and text styles. From studying these magazines I no not to leave too much dead space because it makes the magazine look boring and not very interesting, I also no not to place too much text on the front cover as it will put off my target audience from reading the rest of the magazine. The front cover is the page that has to catch the audience’s eye straight away otherwise they won’t be interested in the rest of the magazine.

Chosen Music Genre

As my two favourite genres of music are Indie and Rock I am going to combine the two genres together producing Indie Rock. Indie Rock is a genre of alternative rock. The main instruments within Indie Rock are Guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocals.

These are Indie Rock artists that I listen to.

 

 

Genres of Music

Pop

Rock N’ Roll

Rap

Classical

Mental

Jazz

Rock

Techno

Indie

Hip-Hop

Dance

Grunge

Punk

R&B

Different types of genres with in music can bring out different emotions with an individual people.

Rock brings out anger, aggression and rage. The colours related to Rock is always a dark coloured background, with red or pink used to stand out from the background. Rock is a very "in your face" type of music using instruments such as electric and bass guitar, drums, keyboard all these instruments are amplified electronically. All these instruments are loud and aggressive.

 

From researching more about these two different genres of music I can see that these genres target two different target audiences. Rock is aimed more at teenagers that have a lot of anger and aggression within them giving them away to release their anger. Whereas classical is targeted at middle aged audience, this music will help them relax and be calm for a while.

Whereas classical music relaxes and calms   people down using instruments such as violins, woodwind, flutes, trumpet, clarinets and more. These instruments are mellow and relaxing.

Introduction to Music Magazine

Now that I have completed my preliminary task, I will now be moving on to my main task which is a Music Magazine. I will be creating a front cover, contents page and a double page spread.