Conventions Revision

1. Which were the most influential conventions for you? How did your study of them affect your decisions and outcomes?

Almost certainly I wanted to stick closely to conventions at the time because I didn't want to make anything too different that it may have seemed an disliked change by the target audience. The two genres of magazine that I wanted to merge together to make my own was a combination of Rap and Indie, so that I could stick to the conventions and in particular the ones of these magazines but with making something new. With my front cover I stuck to the most simple conventions such as a readable font and reasonable text sizes, I wanted a central large image displayed relating to the main article of the magazine just like those of "Vibe" and "NME" I had studies the most. The colours I looked at pretty well because a trend has to followed with this as well because a bright yellow cover wouldn't go with the Indie side but a darker but still rich colour would. Simple conventions I stuck to pretty well but with obviously adding my own content and making alterations to the position of article titles and my title and images.

I would say that my decisions were altered by the use of conventions for the given magazines. I would feel that if my research would have been done, then if maybe gotten conformation that I could go crazy and create something new and revolutionary it would have sure up a position that I could be allowed to move much more independent direction. With having to complete the research and then relating my creation of my magazine to these others it made me feel that I had to be constricted to these styles and categories and that I would say eventually affected my decisions and outcomes. For example my final contents page became very similar looking to that of one I had used for research and completed analysis on so it wouldn't have really redefined any of the modern conventions and would have therefore limited the success and outcome that my magazine faced.

2. Did you subvert any conventions that you studied in music magazines?

In all honesty I think that I stuck pretty much to the conventions of music magazines and didn't move against any conventions at all either because I may have been unsure at the time or that I just felt that it would have been better to remain the way a certain convention. With the title and primary image of the front cover it seemed better to remain with the title at the top centre of the page and not go for anything like up the up the side or so on because it the kind of thing that doesn't work because it wouldn't be seen when seen in a shop. Ideas like this just made me really play it safe in the conventions department and also it is difficult to be creative on a subject such as this because most boundary changes have already been made and that there may not even be enough space on a page to fit cool, new ideas.