Through my analysing process, I understand the conventions of rock/indie genre magazines to have dark/ suitable colours (red, black, white) on the front cover, along with a large and eyecatching image of a popular band/artist, bold font to emphasize band names, interviews, articles and news on popular/new bands and pictures to a high quality. Text is usually in capital letters, and an appropriate 'slang' type of language is used.
Through my target audience research I have found that magazines of this type appeal to both male and female, of ages 15-18 and I am assuming slightly older as well. I have found that they read these magazines to entertain, relieve boredom and get gossip.
Therefore I plan to meet these conventions by making my magazine packed of exciting articles and news shown on the contents page, the front cover should be fairly busy, emphasizing band names in bold font and show high quality and unusual images. I should make the double page spread interesting to read so that it will entertain my audience.
However, I plan to challenge the conventions by using a close up of one 'band member' and using props and other mise en scene to frame the shot so that it is really eye catching and appealling. They will be a female actress- as this is less commonly found and will allow me to challenge the conventions as much as possible.
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