USE OF CODES AND

CONVENTIONSBY S O P H I E S M I T H

Cover Page The codes and

conventions I added on both of the pages are a masthead, barcode, issue number, title, cover lines, quotes, bold colours, dominant images, and sell lines. I included these codes and conventions on the draft so that it looked like a magazine. I then added on some extra shapes and lines to the cover to make it more appealing, while keeping all of the codes and conventions of a POP music magazine.

CHARTS PAGE The progression between the draft page and final product is very little as the draft already covered the codes and conventions. These codes and conventions include colour scheme, titles, sub titles, images, and fonts that attract the audience. For both pages I have used the codes and conventions to make it look like a POP magazine. For the final product I added some more colour behind the subtitles and titles to make them stand out more. This adds to the convention of having fonts that stand out to attract the audience but does so in a different want than usual so my magazine stays original.

CONTENTS PAGE There is not a draft for my contents page

as it was one of the last pages that was fully completed, and so had the most amount of planning go into it. Using the research I had from all of my planning and the experience through making the other pages it was easy for me to pick the colour scheme, and fonts. I picked the colours I was going to use based on the other pages I had created. The colour scheme I chose was neutral mixed with purple. The grey was chosen because the previous page was purple and I didn’t want them to be the same colour. Another convention was a bold font which I achieved with all of the fonts I used on this page, particularly the title. I included page numbers for the contents which is another code and convention. I used images on this page to use another convention. This page is inspired by Billboard magazine and Q magazine, and the codes and conventions they use for their magazines.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

There was little progression between the draft and the final product for the double page spread because it was well planned out. Using the research I had and the rationales and flat plans I had drawn up, it was easy for me to create this page with the photo-shop skills I had learnt from the other pages. The codes and conventions are the same on both examples. I used an interesting, bold font for the title to attract the audience. I used images to give a visual aspect, and included an article that was informative and interesting. I kept a neutral colour scheme to fit with the other pages of the magazine, and used sub titles to give more context. To improve my draft I changed the article I had written for the draft because I thought that it did not fit the convention of a gripping article that was both informative and interesting. I also added more lines behind the title to make it attract the audience more and to make the design less simple, as a convention for POP music magazines is a title that stands out and an attractive, interesting page.