2.  Masthead
 Main Image – Direct/ Indirect
 Music Related articles and Reviews
 Price
 Website address
 Barcode
 Cover Lines
 Main Cover lines
 Pull Quote
 Splashes(Competition/ prizes)
 Date/Issue No
 House Style
 QRL codes (download songs)
(All depends on what genre of music you are producing)

3.  My masthead design is very simple and eye catching, it being simple helps people to
identify my magazine quick and easily. The is no problem when it comes to pronouncing
the name.
 The name SO-LO is the name of my magazine and is also a logo.
 My name SO-LO stands for music being very solo and my magazine having its own
identity which makes it different from the others existing music magazines, it also
bringing music back to its root which is the motto of my magazine.
XXL is a Hip-Hop
magazine. I looked at this
magazine to give me
ideas of what sort of
conventions they have
with advertise it is a Hip-
Hop magazine. XXL is
Because my magazine is a written in capital letters
subgenre magazine, my which makes the
masthead combines both the magazine seem loud and
R&B element which is the name eye catching, I uses that
SO-LO and the Hip-Hop element convention and made
is the short and snappy layout of my masthead capital
the masthead. letters.
My
Masthead/Logo

4. The main Image of my
music magazines
dominates the page,
Looking at the picture on
the left you can see that
the image of T.I is
dominating the page. This
is mainly seen in Hip-Hop
music magazines.
The way in which I am
challenging the
conventions is by having a
female dominating the
front cover. Compared to
the Vibe magazine on the
left which is a male
dominating the front
cover. The background
colour has a lot to do with
how the main image is
portrayed. Having a dark
blue colour makes the
magazine seem very raw
and gloomy compared to
my magazine that is a
subtle light blue/ turquoise
colour. The reason I image
Music magazines my colour a light shade of
blue is because it relates to
The way in which Vibe music these days don’t Compared to my magazine that looks
the other aspect of my
magazine presents T.I the artist need to have a magazine which is the R&B like she is going to scream /shout but
body language does suggest, instrument involved side. the SOLO sign is stopping her. My
he is bad and that he is going for people to magazine isn’t as intense and scary as
to do something dangerous identify it as a the Vibe magazine because of the
Subtle light blue/
The facial expression gives music magazine. background colour and the fact my
turquoise colour
away the ‘BadBoy ‘ image. By The way the layout magazine is a subgenre magazine not
to contradict the
the artist having direct eye and image is like vibe magazine that is just Hip-
aggressiveness of
contact it makes the presented suggest Hop. Not
main image
audience feel like they are if it is a music
being looked at aggressively. magazine or not.

5. Challenging the forms of
conventions
The way in which is challenge the forms of conventions is:
•Female dominating the front cover
•Have a turquoise subtle colour to express both subgenres (Hip-Hop and R&B
•The way my artist is presented (Morden/ Urban clothes of today, not revealing any body parts)
•No direct eye contact with customers ( represents vulnerability of females in a positive way without
being too revealing)
•Different ethnicity is represented (Not the stereotyped black person)
•All my original ideas colour, layout name and outfit
•Using jewellery to represent/promote my magazine
•My magazine doesn’t just focus on Hip-Hop but R&B too
•I also didn’t go for the red/white/black colours a Hip-Hop/ R&B music magazine would have to stand
out. My magazine stands out anyway with the main image dominating the page
•Contents page layout very expressive and different from other music magazines