What are the conventions

(ingredients) of a Pop magazine?

Masthead of the name of the magazine

Headlines of articles inside the magazine

Photos of pop celebrities

Quotes from magazines

Price

Barcode

Issue number/date

Website address

Advertisements of

Competitions And products.

What does the front cover include?

What do typical contents pages

look like?

What do typical double page

spreads look like?

A large title (sometimes large enough to spread

across both pages)

A large photo of the celebrity the article is about

Smaller photos to accompany facts

Alternating colours in the text to create a greater

variance.

Sometimes have the magazine title

Quotes

Page number

Sometimes the page split can go through the photo of

the celebrity

How have these conventions been

included in my own magazine?

In my Cover Page, I have included:

Quotes

Masthead

Price

Issue number/date

Headlines of articles inside

Photos of Popstars

Advertisements of competitions

A Barcode

Website address

In the Contents Page I have included:

Photos to accompany the articles

The same colour scheme as the

cover

All the Articles listed in chronological

order in their different categories with

page numbers.

Advertisements

Articles listed are all relevant to the

target market

How have these conventions been

included in my own magazine?

In the Double Page Spread I included:

Large Title that spreads across both pages

A quote for a title

A large photo of the celebrity that the article is about

Interview questions and answer, the questions being the kind of question the target market is looking for an answer to.

Smaller photos that relate to certain sections

Page number

A website link, making use of the online content

The magazine logo

A brief synopsis of the article below the title

How have these conventions been

included in my own magazine?

What have I done differently?

I found this cover to be too

cluttered and made it quite

tiring to look at.

I also felt too many of the

colours were to similar,

and made it difficult for

certain headlines to be

noticed.

Therefore I made my

cover not as busy.

Allowing someone to take

in the details and not be

overwhelmed. I also kept

the colours varied, but

within the same colour

scheme

What have I done differently?

I didn’t like how the split between the two pages went through the celebrity’s

face. It engulfs apart of his face making him look distorted.

Therefore, I made sure that on my magazine the face wasn’t down the crack.

I also made sure no writing was too close to the line, in case some of the

words became unreadable.

What have I done differently?

I felt that there were too many

different colours, and was

harsh on the eyes. I think the

problem was that the

background was yellow and

orange, which are very sharp

colours, making it hard for

other colours to work with it.

Each Category is a different

colour (Blue, red and Purple)

and I find it to look a bit

repulsive.

Therefore I made the background on my magazine a very pale cream colour and kept

to a few colours as possible. I avoided colours that didn’t compliment the colour

scheme, apart from the green top that the celebrity is wearing, to stand out.

I pushed the boundaries by:

Using unusual poses in my photos

My photos all follow a certain style and editing.

I kept the colour scheme throughout, making the few times something isn’t in the colour scheme, really stand out.

I tried to keep the pages fairly simplistic, so people don’t get overwhelmed when reading it.

How have I pushed the boundaries

of this form?