Forms and Conventions

Masthead
A masthead is a title for a magazine, it is usually bold and is used to attract customers to the magazine. When creating the masthead, I was sure to use a very bright colour in order to immediately draw the attention of the audience, vivid colours stand out on a plain background. The masthead is font size 133.5pt and has bold/italic effects on it. I feel that enhancing the font really made it look unique and like it could actually be from a professional standard music magazine.
Cover Photo
 A cover photo is the large image on a magazine. The photo I selected was taken in a studio, using a DSLR camera with the aid of studio lighting. The photo is a medium close up

Cover Lines
Cover lines are short statements found on the cover of the magazine that allude to or describe the articles inside. Their purpose is to entice the reader into picking up and/or buying the magazine. Generally, there's one main larger cover line and then a few smaller ones, usually in a variety of fonts that fit the house style

Puffs
By putting an advertisement on the front cover it encourages the audience to purchase the magazine as it gives promises of further desired discounts.


Colour scheme and ‘house style’
The colour scheme is red, black and white, I selected these colours as they give the impression of darkness and mystery. The colours are repeated throughout the front cover and the contents page. The purpose of the repetition of the colours is to give the magazine continuity.

Pull Quotes
I have used pull quotes both on in my feature article, a pull quote is a brief, attention-catching quotation taken from the main text of an article and is usually used as a subheading or graphic feature. I did this as I wanted to catch the attention of the audience and entice them to continue reading the article.
The division of your contents page into regulars and features


Column structure
Throughout my feature article I have used a 4 column structure, my reason for this is that I believe it makes it look more professional and easier to follow opposed to a 6 or 8 column structure.