My Chosen Genre

I have chosen to base my magazine around a pop magazine. I have been influenced by this genre from creating my questionnaire and asking several different people to answer my questionnaire to give me an idea of what to produce my magazine around. Looking at magazines like NME and Billboard has given me an insight on how I would like to set my magazine out looking particularly at the layout of the magazine. Looking at fonts, different shots for the images that have been used, the type of language that has been used on the front cover, etc.

Looking at these typical conventions and trying to stick to them when drawing up my drafts for my music magazine I have noticed that they seem to focus on one main music artist on the front cover.
Anchorage text is used to talk about the main music artist on the front cover, this is a really good convention of the music magazine so that someone buying the magazine knows the story about the celebrity on the front. In my opinion this is a feature of the front cover that really helps sell the magazine to its target audience. The magazine then tends to focus a lot on the artist in the weekly/monthly magazine.

I will go on to talk about the types of images, language and the way i will present the text through my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.