How does your product How does your product use and develop forms use and develop forms

and conventions of a real and conventions of a real magazine?magazine?

CompetitorsCompetitors

My competitors to my magazine would be My competitors to my magazine would be magazines such asmagazines such as

MOJOMOJO

KerrangKerrang

NMENME

QQ

I am going to investigate how closely linked I am going to investigate how closely linked my magazine is to some of these competitors.my magazine is to some of these competitors.

The title is in the conventional place of a magazine in the middle at the very top. The typography is bigger than any of the other fonts on the magazine and creates a brand identity.

The bright green florescent colour and big font size allows the Kings of Leon to be aunique selling pointon the magazine andsignifys to the readerthat the main artistBeing offered is KOL.

Vocab such as‘exclusive’ providesan incentive to theprospective reader asit offers the KOL article which is special to MOJO and no other magazine.

A well known big bandWith a huge fan baseIs used to entice thetarget market.

Other articles withfeference to theartist’s songs withlanguage skills usedto anchor them.

Black and white pictureallows the USP to shinethrough and givesIt an old, vintage feel which suitsthe target audience.

Conventional barcodeOffering idea of price.

incentive

Title acts as the biggestsize font which allowsit to stand out and tellsthe reader this is thetitle.

Main artist is supposedly a huge hit with a huge fanbase which would interest my target audience‘Exclusive’ is usedGiving the sense that the interview is nothing like in other magazines. Adds value.

Main article is in pink allowing it to stand out and be seen easily.

For the segment of mytarget market which do notlike my main article, other artists are provided tostill give an incentive

Incentives which wouldbe relevant to targetmarket (links to audienceprofile)

Black and white photoin order to allow thetext to stand out moreeasily. Contrast of florescentand synonymous colours.

Other articles to anchorthe title and mainarticle.

Title is centered at the top of the pageand in capitals to stand out.

Date is with themain title with monthand year

Artist is dominanton the contents pageand looks at the readeras a way of mode of address. This engages the reader to makethem feel as thoughthey are with the artist.

Page numbers with reference to the page and page numbers different colour to title of page.

Two dominant areasof contents conveyingthe variety of informationrepeated, then specialto that month.

One bold colourbackground

Brief information about the page under-neath the title of the page.

Quizzes available

Two main areasof contents.

Contents is incapitals and an increased font size compared to other typography on the page.

Date including monthand year to be ableto differ each magazine.

Artist is dominant, directmode of address withthe reader building upa relationship.

Bold same colourbackground to bringattention to textand photograph.

Background and artistsame contrast, picture hued to match the colour scheme.

Page numbers differentcolour to page title.

Brief info on pages

Page numbers adamant

Quizzes available

Three different photos from photoshoot

Information on the pagefor the reader; saying whattype of page it is

Reference to band namein title

Title biggesttext on thewhole page

Extra informationavailable forreaders aboutthe band

One big picture,rest of the photossmall

Text aligned in columnswith an adamant firstletter of the first wordin a capital and biggerfont size

Page numberin the conventionalarea in the cornerof the page

Quotes fromthe main interviewsingled out, quotedand made bigger

Guides peopleto website for moreinformation

Information on the pagefor the reader; saying whattype of page it is

Reference to artistin title, and alsoreference to magazine

Page number in cornerof the page

One main photoand three othersmaller photos

All photos from the same photoshootshowing that it was all done on the same day with the interview

Quoted things saidIn the interview, Bigger and bolderThan other text ininterview

Interview in columnslike a newspaperarticle

First letter of first wordbold and big, signifyingthe start of the interview

Extra informationabout the artist

Guides people tomagazine websitefor ‘full interview’