Masthead 1
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Codes and Conventions of Mastheads
To start off with, I decided to choose a genre for my music magazine. After undertaking some audience research, a majority of them said they would be interested in a rock magazine. Therefore I decided to base my magazine on this genre.
Next, I thought of three possible names for my magazine, which would best suit the genre. Eventually, I came up with Soundz, Encore and RockCore. After presenting the three ideas to my focus group, the decided that encore would be best as it reflected the genre and also had a meaning behind it, (encore meaning extra/more music).
Then, I decided to find several fonts which would best suit the mastheads for my front cover. Firstly, after looking at several rock magazines (such as Scuzz) I found that many use fairly formal, bold titles. Therefore I decided to incorporate that into my magazine. I found a called ‘Felix Tilting’, which was essentially a formal font. By this font being bold, it would attract the audience’s attention and stand out on the page. Next I found I font called ‘Incubus’. Through further research into magazine, I came across several magazines such as Rocksound using a font which looks like paint brush strokes. The Incubus font does consist of brush strokes and I felt this would be appropriate for my magazine as it has a rough, punk look to it, which is commonly stereotyped with rock music. Finally, I found a font called ‘Paster of Muppets’. This font had a very eighties rock look to it, and I felt it out be appropriate for my masthead as it would relate to audience of eighties rock music. Finally, after presenting the three fonts to my focus group, they decided that Incubus would be the best font for my masthead, as the font looked quite like writing you would find of gig posters.
