Thursday, 25 November 2010

Codes and Conventions for a Music Magazine Front Page

These Codes and Conventions make it clear to the reader what the target audience is. I will foucs mainly on NME as it targets the same audience.

Pop (Smash Hits)
§         Colourful themes, range of different colours
§         Predominant image
§         Masthead takes up top 3rd of the page
§         Barcode with price, issue and date on it
§         Not much text, sell lines catchy
§         Text used is more simple and not that of music language (e.g. soprano, bass, tenor)
§         Lots of thumbnail images

Classical (Classic FM)
§         Plain colours, just two colours (white and red)
§         Barcode with price, issue and date
§         Predominant image
§         Simple tagline
§         A more bureaucratic style of language (language more advanced)
§         More music language used e.g. the use of soprano. Different names of instruments
§         Range of thumbnail images
§         Masthead takes up top 3rd of the magazine overlaying the image

Rock (Mojo and Rocksound)
§         White, black and red colour scheme on the front cover.
§         Predominant image
§         Masthead covering the whole top 3rd of the page
§         Barcode with price, issue and date
§         Thumbnail image in top corner
§         Sell lines are simple. Easy to understand.

§         Colours are dark, contrasting to the background
§         Masthead covering top 3rd of the page
§         Image layered over the masthead, takes up most of the page
§         Short catchy tagline
§         Different thumbnail images
§         List of bands included in the magazine
§         Uses quite harsh sounding words for the tag lines

Metal (Metal Hammer)
§         Dark colours mainly black, deep red and white
§         Tag line under the masthead
§         Masthead takes up top 3rd of the magazine
§         Predominant image
§         No sell lines (list of bands that feature in the magazine

Indie (NME)
§         Quite bright colour scheme consisting of 4 different colours.
§         Image covering most of the page
§         Barcode with price, issue and date.
§         Sell lines are quotes from inside the magazine, inside the articles. Not much information involved in sell lines, leave reader wondering what the article is about.

Wide range audience (Q)
§         Plain simple colour scheme, two different colours (red and white)
§         Predominant image
§         Masthead takes up 3rd top right of the magazine
§         Simple tagline

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