My Chosen Genre

I knew from the outset that I wanted to create an indie music magazine as it is the type of music that I have always listened to and been interested in. This will help me to be inspired when doing  future research, as I am most familiar with the conventions of this genre of music magazine for my final production. I will get most of my inspiration from magazines such as Q and NME to combine components to aid mine to look the most professional and realistic as possible.

I have collated a few issues of NME and Q magazines over the years, and have noticed conventions that are used frequently in all of them. As you can see from the image above, although NME has an established title/masthead which is usually red, this can vary depending on the issue and what compliments the colour scheme or contrast the background. There are usually a variety of plugs to draw the readers attention, usually promoting an album for example and usually around 3-4 colours are used to tie the colour scheme together, mainly consisting of red, white, black and then a colour that fits with the specific edition. I really like the artistic layout of NME and have turned to this as inspiration also for my contents page and double page spread.