My chosen genre

I have chosen this genre as due to my past experiences of playing with scouting for girls who are a large indie rock band combined with the research I will carry out, I think I will perform well with this genre.

The masthead covers around one sixth of the page and goes across the top of the front cover, this is a convention adhered to by most indie music magazines and therefore I intend to use this in my magazine as I think it a very class original layout. The fact that the subject of the front cover is layered in front of the masthead also adheres to conventions and I also intend to use this feature as I think it looks more original and brings out the importance of the feature story more.

The colours of an indie magazine tend to be blacks and whites as a stereotypical person of an indie style is very out of the ordinary and stands out but for unusual reasons and they do not tend to show much emotion, I think the image on the front cover supports my statement and this will be along the lines of what I will use in my music magazine.

The cover story usually focuses on one group of people, in this case it is the vaccines as they are a up and coming band who are progressing their way to the top of the ladder very quickly. Their name is plastered directly across the centre of the magazine with a picture of them behind it.

Indie magazines also tend to have references to other articles on the front cover but a lot smaller in font and out of the way of the shot of the subjects of the front cover, they mainly include other bands and festivals.