These are some of the typical conventions of a magazine which I have used for my final product, similar conventions are found on popular published magazines. However, I have not added all conventions that typically appear on a magazine cover, and I have changed the conventions I have used to fit a more unique individual style to stand out from all the other music magazines similar to my genre.
1. Masthead
Arguably the most popular colours used in music magazines are red white and black, these colours are neutral in gender and can create a bold statement with many connotations surrounding the rock genre. Examples of this are NME, Q, KERRANG, Rolling stone and MOJO magazines.
Because I believed these colours were so popular, in fact too popular, I believed it would be best to go against the normal trend, this way my magazine is much more noticeable on a shelf compared to others of similar colouring blending in to one another.
I decided on a dark shade of orange which is eye catching and can fit in well with most colours on a colour pallet, its white lined boarder allows the masthead to pop out of the page giving it a bold finish against to contrasting dark background.
I have placed the masthead in the top left hand corner of the cover which is the most common choice for all magazine covers, however some spread across the whole of the top of the page. But because my masthead only consists of 2 letters it is best to keep it to a corner in a good size rather than stretching it across.
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