Band included on front cover. Haven’t just used main member but all of the band. This is to represent the band as being all one and that it isn’t just about 1 person in the band. Name/title of

magazine highlighted and bold. Stands out from the rest of the magazine. This is so that the magazine can be spotted and the fans of the magazine can always put the name to the magazine.

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Give aways used in both magazines. This would reel in the attention of the audience because they would purchase the magazine to get these give aways.

Yellow was used for the title and anchorage in the NME magazine and we also decided to use this colour. This is because it connotes liveliness and activity. It is a loud colour which would shout out to the audience and get their attention.

The layout of each interview is varied. In our magazine the questions and answers are clearly separated, this would make it easier for the readers to read and understand in comparison to the NME double page spread which is harder to understand and it isn’t all as clear. This in a way undermines the audience of our magazine because it suggests that they are less intellectual than the audience for NME.

Main image includes all of the band in both double page spreads. We decided to do this like the NME front cover because it then implies that the questions answered was from the whole band as a unit and not just 1 of the members answering the question. Both photographs make it look as though the band are ready to perform, both are set on stage with the lighting and everything organised to a certain atmosphere. The lighting in the NME double page photograph suggests that the band are quite dull and are serious about their work and nothing more. On the other hand in our photograph the lighting is much more natural which implies that they are less uptight and that they enjoy doing what they do.

We decided to include a pull quote from the article also. We did this because it pulls in the reader to the article. The best and more intriguing quote was used for this because it would give first impressions of the article as a whole.

Band index used in both to inform the audience of what to expect within the magazine. It also shows order in the magazine, chronological order.

We decided to go against conventions of the NME contents page here because we added more photographs of other features in the magazine. We did this to make the contents page look more busy and give us the opportunity to use a wider range of camera angles.

Offers/giveaways to give the audience opportunities to win things.

Main article image included to highlight their part played in the magazine. We did this because it would make it all clear and easy to work out the main stories of this magazine.

This magazine has a introduction to the magazine as a whole where as ours doesn’t have this. The result of this is that NME magazine looks and is more interesting but ours is more functional and easy to work with and read.

In our magazine there is clear house style shown which is constant throughout these. Although in the NME magazine although they use the same font throughout the magazines they actually use different colours of their font within the magazine. I think this highlights the consistency in our magazine in comparison to the NME magazine.

In both magazines the page numbers and names are in different fonts, one of which is the colour of the house style which again shows consistency.

1 main image being the main image of the front cover. We decided to do this because it draws attention to the one artist which is the seller of the magazine and the reason for most people buying the magazine.

Sub heading in smaller text in comparison to the main article. We did this because it highlights that the other articles aren’t as big and exciting as the main one. NME also did this as I think it again draws attention to the main article.

Both contain issue number, date and price.

Title of the magazine being the biggest text on this cover. We did this and I think NME did also as it’s the part of the cover which would draw in the most attention. It will be a well known title which will catch the eye of the readers.

Pull quote used from the article. We decided to do this as it pulls the audience into the article. We chose one of the best and most exciting quote from the article as it would be more intriguing for the audience.

Main image of the article is of who it is about. We chose to do a mid shot for our main image as it includes their face and their expression. This firstly gives an insight into how the artists initially are. It also shows a part but not a lot of what the artist is wearing and in ours we decided to dress Quinn in floral pattern as it would be portrayed as being more girly. But in the NME magazine you can tell that the artist isn’t as girly due to the checked shirt that the girl is wearing.

The layout of this interview makes it clear and easy to read which again meets ours target audience of younger adults but would also undermine the intellectual ability of our audience in comparison to the audience of the NME magazine.

In both issues of the magazines we stuck to the same conventions throughout. For example we used the yellow and black house style throughout all pages we have produced. We did this because it made our magazines look realistic and shows that they have been produced from the same company.

We also used the same layout on all pages and put things in the same places. For example headlines and photos. This is because we wanted to make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for by all the main things being in the same place.

We decided to ask similar questions in both interviews as we wanted the readers to learn the same things about each artist and get a deeper understanding of musicians. Also because we consulted our audience for the questions we thought it would be good to include them in both interviews to show we listen to what they want within a magazine.

We stuck to many conventions throughout all our magazines to make our issues look realistic and like they could be sold in a shop. Also it would attract our audience more as it would be a typical music magazine that our audience would want to read due to the different conventions we have used.

Is it important to use conventions?■ We thought that using conventions helped to make our magazine a

success. The use of the same colours and layout that is typically used in all music magazines helped to make our magazine look realistic.

■ Also we stuck to using things like a band index and using interviews in the main article as these are all conventions of music magazines. This helped to fit our magazine into the magazines like NME and Kerrang as they used similar conventions and have a successful music magazine.

■ Overall, we think it is important to use conventions as it gives the audience a more realistic view of our magazine and gives it the ability to be sold in shops as it fits in with other music magazines out there.