THE GENERIC CONVENTIONS OF

A MUSIC MAGAZINE

Billy Adams

Both Magazines

Vibe magazine

The mast head on the front cover is covered by kanyes head, but doesn't matter because the magazine is well known

Most magazine always have a exclusive extra on it

Vibe also use a lot of vibrant colors so they catch peoples eyes

They’ve have purposely made kanye look straight into the camera so it look like he's looking at the customers

They have put kanyes collar the same color as the text which is very professional

The music magazine website

Award that it has received

All colors are color coordinated

A personal quote from kanye to intrigue you

NME magazine

The main cover line over the photograph showing who's mainly in it

Barcode and price of the magazine

Main header top left to show what magazine it is

Band names to attract attention

Side cover lines to show what is also going to me in the magazine in bold blue

Direct gaze at reader

Looks like hes gazing at cover lines

Banner to show there with new music

Black dots to separate bands

Features Masthead- the masthead is the name of the magazine Cover lines- the side headings with mini storys Exclusive extra- is what drags the audience inMain image- the front cover photoBarcode- what gets scanned to show its soldDate- what day it was released Selling line- example ‘best magazine ever!’Serif font- the type of font that’s used