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Music magazine- Downbeat The Genre of this music magazine is Jazz, mainly targeted at 30+, both genders. The conventions of this magazine are all included to match it’s particular

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Page 1: Magazine presentaion

Music magazine- Downbeat

The Genre of this music magazine is Jazz, mainly targeted at 30+, both genders. The conventions of this magazine are all included to match it’s particular audience.

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The main cover line is in white, making it stand out to the dark maroon background; attracting the readers to it.

Downbeat conventions- cover

The main image is a medium long shot of a famous jazz artist with a jazz instrument. He is wearing a chequered blazer which suggests soul music and quite old fashioned, appealing to its target audience.

The mast head is big bold and white, with a bit hidden by his head; this suggests its a popular well known magazine therefore doesn’t need to show the full title.

Cover lines are white and bits of yellow and red so they are easy to read. They are also all the same type face and well structured so it’s easy to follow for the specific target audience.

The background is maroon which connotes calm and soothing (which is like jazz music); this appeals to the target audience because they enjoy jazz therefore will like the look of the front cover of the magazine

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Downbeat conventions- contents

White background allows text to be seen easily and colours of the mast head and the images stand out.

Structured in a columned order; makes it easier to read for the specific target audience and creates a neater layout to the magazine.

The mast head is at the top showing the readers what the page consists of. It’s is red as well as the cover lines headings; the colour code creates a neater format and looks professional.

Numerous images adds colour and breaks down the text to avoid formality and to make it look more visually interesting.

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Downbeat conventions- Double page spread

White background allows text to be seen easily and colours of the mast head and the images stand out.

Black and White mast head in the House Style. Recognisable to audience, stands out because of its black background.

Dark red/maroon headings, calming, associate with jazz music.

Image breaks down text, avoids formality, adds colour.

Unlike a usual magazine, this isn’t structured in columns and looks like a book or newspaper and so looks old fashioned which relates to jazz music.

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Downbeat facts

Type/ focus of Magazine- Music magazineEditor- FRANK ALKYERFrequency- MonthlyDate of first publication- 1936Price- £4.78Distribution- book/magazine shops, can order online

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NME (New Musical Express)The genre of this music magazine is pop rock/ indie rock, mainly targeted at teenagers- early 20s, both genders.The conventions of this magazine are all included to match it’s particular audience.

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NME conventions- Cover

Bold red mast head- visually interesting, loud colour, attract youths Various different typeface for

cover lines- adds character and avoids formality

Main image is a close up of well known artist, colourful makeup, unique style influences youths, young and trendy, styled hair, quirky

Main cover line bold and yellow- connotes youth and happiness, attracts reader, capitals, suggests important story/info in magazine

Barcode small print by law

Shaded patterned background, adds texture and more character to cover, more visually interesting for youths

Puff- colourful, different typeface, bold, character and avoids formality

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NME conventions- Contents

Numerous images- adds colour, visually interesting, breaks cover lines up, avoids formality, attracts youths

Bold black numbers, matches with colour code, easy to read, easy to follow and navigate particular page for audience

Various type face- visually interesting, adds character and avoids formality

Column- small print, useful info, doesn’t dominate page, well structured

Advertisement- in corner, doesn't follow colour code, stands out

Mast head- bold black capitals, dominant part of page, stands out

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Jazz Improv conventions- double page spread

Bright blue colour code- attracts target audience, blue connotes calm and chilled (relates to teenagers), dotted around adds a splash of colour, visually interesting

Column- information small print, spread out, well structured, easy to follow/read

Structured layout- black background, adds more colour and makes it look visually interesting

Main image- youths in casual clothes, relate to teenagers, quirky wall paper, colourful, trendy

Puffs- black and white, stands out ‘NME LOVES’ two step flow, wants readers to love them too

Numerous images, different shot types, spread out, adds colour, attracts audience

Banner- blue colour code, stands out, shows importance (away from other text and columns) wants readers to see it

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NME facts

Type/ focus of Magazine- Music magazineEditor- Mike WilliamsFrequency- WeeklyDate of first publication- 7 March 1952Price- £2.20Distribution- book/magazine shops, can buy a digital magazine online

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Aspects I Intend to Use From These Magazines

The genre of music that I am going for is Jazz music. I will use information from this magazine that I have found from Jazz Improv so the content will be based around Jazz, and will also use props such as a vinyl, saxophones etc. However, I will be using various bright colours (showing it’s for both genders) and various typeface to attract youths as my target audience is teens/20s. Also for my main image, I will use a young teen to show the music is for people around this age range. These are the conventions I got from NME.My aim is to modernise a jazz music magazine to that youths will be attracted to, and to fill a gap in the market as this is a unique idea.