GENRE CONVENTIONS

ROCK

The rock genre tend have very significant conventions, first of all the colour. The colour of most rock magazines are very bold colours, but less bright colours. Colours like red black and white are often seen because of their natural conations of things that are more serious and rebellious. The magazine covers for rock magazines tend to have a certain aging style to it, especially in there fonts, being serif instead of sans serif. This very true when we talk about rock magazines that cover the original rock music like, classic rock for instance. When we speak of alternative rock magazines like Kerrang there is a clear difference, the colours tend to be brighter and then letters are in block capitals to emphasis on the eye catching effect.

HIP HOP

The Hip hop genres conventions give a similar feeling to the rock magazines of a rebellious life, having said this a lot is also very different. Hip hop magazines fonts tend to have more fine cut edges sans serif whilst rock and other genres are serif. The hip hop magazines also illustrate more arrogance on the front cover of the main musical icon to give that rebellious feel. The covers are more simplistic as well since there isn't as much text but more bold text, “Jay z untouchable” and a large image which dominates most the page. Everyhting is given more of a bold feeling to it.

POP

Pop magazines differ a lot from hip hop and rock. The reason for this is because quite clearly, pop magazines tend to be more female based, this is why there is emphasis on the bright colours and intriguing layout. It gives more of a friendly feel put still powerful. There isnt much space on the cover and your eyes would never be bored, this might be due to the fact that its main stream chart music which entails much new information. The main picture image is still used in an iconic way but its almost as if the image comes as second most important to the magazine cover itself, its not selling the artist but the music. The font mainly is sans serif but is in many styles of fonts and sizes.

JAZZ

The jazz genre is an aging genres since most its listeners listened to jazz in its peak which was decades ago. We cans see that the jazz magazine understands this by using an aging iconic jazz figure, but showing much dominance and power in the picture to show that this genre is still very live and well. The colour scheme has been kept very simple, white and grey being the main background colours. Having said this other colours the magazine have used is yellow green and red, these colours are often used y African countries, which is where the original jazz music developed from. Jazz takes a friendly but surreal approach invited all audiences in, but still giving the music life on this cover. Very limited text so it helps you focus on the point of interest which is the picture.

ALTERNATIVE

The alternative magazine genre is by far the most complex of them all. There is never any straight forward style this type of magazine. As you can notice in this one, the rolling stones magazine (traditionally rock) is hosting hip hop music. This style of magazine is not conformed to any type there for it is naturally more rebelious as it is the other solution.

FAVOURITETo a large degree my favourite is alternative

since it has no boundaries on what type of music and style to go upon. This type of genre is always trying to be unique which adds extra quality to the magazine. The other magazines that I believe showed similar amounts of quality is the hip hop and rock genre magazines, that had this harsh and bold look about them which I found immensely effective.