Content Mood boardBy Callum McCormick

Conventions for a Classic Music magazine content page: The word ‘’Content’’ is place in the right corner of the page

The images related to the feature articles are places in rectangular boxes

The numbers of the featured articles are placed in the box

The images have a darker tone in contrast to white background

The images contain images of musicians

The background is white

External advertising to other media. Aka radio

The puff articles are arranged in a list format

Feature article is in the largest image

There is a description of the free promotional material

Editors note

Contains subheadings to group different features together

Mood board analysis

• The mood board consist of three classical magazine from three distinct publications. They each share conventions, in both their style colour and images. This provides valuable insight into conventions that most classical contents page share.

• The first convention consist of the layout of the page. The content title block is shown in the right hand corner in magazine 1 and 3. While magazine 2 the title block is below the images. The page layout consists of images related to the feature article placed is rectangular boxes, this is true with all the magazine. However the position of these rectangular image vary and are spread out in a different fashion for every content page.

• The layout of the filler articles are arranged in a list format. These articles are also arranged into subheadings to group different features together. Another convention of design is the size of the feature article, this image is the most predominate image on the content page designed to catch the eye of the consumer, since that will be the article the majority will want to read straight away. 1 and 3 of the publications on my mood board contain the feature article as the largest image. The layout for these publications reveal several conventions that will be incorporated into my magazine.

• The second convention is the colour and images used on the content page. In each of the publications the content page background is white. This is to create contrast with the darker tones of the images, making them stand out. The images are used to give the consumer an idea as to the content of the most interesting articles, they generally contain people either in the act of playing an instrument or just the musicians. The majority are in a direct mode of address, except in contents page 3. The convention seems to be a verity with the feature article either playing an instrument or ignoring the camera, or in direct mod of address with the reader smiling warmly, the images also contain the number of the page. This creates an ease of accesses