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SimilaritiesIn all of the magazines, the bands on the cover are very serious, not smiling and are generally looking straight into the camera with their band-mates looking elsewhere in some of them. All but one of them uses the colour red so this is obviously a common trait between Indie magazines as well as either a light or dark background, one extreme or the other. All of them also have the band name of the band in the picture in large font on the front so this again is a trait between the magazines in my genre. The masthead is always in the top left hand corner but sometimes the name of the magazine stretches all the way across the page. Rolling stone magazine is like this and that is the layout that the people who took my survey recognised the most so i will probably do my masthead like this in my magazine. Another likeness is that all but one magazine had other, smaller coverlines on the front page, usually in quite a neat fashion. DifferencesEach of the magazine covers have a slightly different layout, even if they're the same magazine. This probably gives the magazine and each band on the front cover their own uniqueness on the cover. the shot types of the pictures vary a bit. in some of them the picture is a mid-shot where you can see the waist, hips and maybe even part of the legs, some have a close up of the band member's faces whereas some have a mid close up where it's chest up. In my magazine I will ask my Facebook friends and twitter followers to do another survey so that i can get some audience feedback on what shot type they think that i should use. A couple of the pictures on the front cover of the magazines are in greyscale or black and white which makes the coverlines and the title of the magazine stand out much more than on the ones where the picture has colour in it. Codes and Conventions of an Indie Magazine CoverFrom this analysis, i have learnt that the common things on Indie music magazine front colour are:
- The colour red - neutral staring expressions - Masthead in the top left or stretching across - more than one coverline - a main coverline with a band name - either a light or dark background
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Sasha BloreI'm just a random 17 year old girl Originally from Luton, England with an irresistible passion for anything creative, fun and inspiring.
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