Vintage Magazine Conventions and Findings

After choosing my magazine genre of vintage and completing research on popular vintage artists, instruments and magazine's I have found out a lot about the following sub-headings.


Convention:

• Masthead takes up normally around 1/6th of the front page (usually in black, red or white)
• Colours/font colours used are white, red, black (it appeals to both genders and the colours black and white are simple and formal)
• Cover stories - main article is always about a specific singer or band which takes up the majority of the front cover, then around the sides there is extra information about what the magazine involves under the headings of 'plus'.
• Features may contain: album review, untold information, unseen pictures, birthday specials, articles, interviews.
• Puffs are rare - shapes (e.g circle on Vintage Rock magazine) and corner folds (e.g on mojo magazine) appear more. 
• Pugs contain the price and date, issue and barcode in the bottom right or left
• Banners are used which explain more of what is inside the magazine and to make text stand out.

Pictures and Photography on the front cover:

• Either individual male or female singers or group shots
• Traditional genre representations
• Locations: all of the front covers i have come across so far, their images have been taken in a studio, you can tell because of the lighting. 
• Props include instruments
• Costumes are all formal showing their importance to the music industry.

Fonts used:

• are normally sans serif/times new roman/arial bold - these are all formal fonts. Examples of these are on the magazines i have previously analysed and posted. 

Layout contains:

• Lines
• Dots
• Boxes
• Artistic elements and effects
• Symbolic images
• Banners