Music magazine decision.

Today, after a lot of thinking I was given a choice between nine genres to do. These include; opera, classical and country, etc.

My final decision is to do a music magazine for the genres jazz.

I have chosen this genre because I can find people from the local area to photograph and i can also use the gap in the market to my advantage by setting a high line for quality.

I can also link the jazz genre to the soundtrack of multiple films as I know a few a fe films which integrate the jazz genre into their films.

The conventions on this genre are really quite lenient, so I can experiment a lot!

The conventions of the jazz genre are;
-Masthead must be 1/4 of the page and is normally in blue, black, white or red.
-Colour themes include the main colours to be red, blue, black and white only.
-Cover stories have a large range of subjects.
-Features of the magazines include new, events, biography, information about performances/ artists, concert reviews, what's on, regulars, letters, gigs, instrument news, new artists and advice.
-Puffs are quite rare in jazz magazines.
-Pugs which are common include the price, date, and in the top corners. bar code is normally bottom right.
-If banners are to be used, which is rarely, they are used on the contents page only.
-Names of the existing magazines are actually quite boring but can be used as research. (Eg. JazzTimes)

Fonts used include sans serif styles, times new roman, italic fonts, thin looking fonts and fonts which give the impression of handwriting.

Layout includes Boxes, Thirds, and Text on double page spreads are quite dense.