For my contents page, I stuck to the conventions of a normal music magazine, most of the magazines I researched had plenty of pictures and an area where they actually said what was in the magazines with the page numbers. Also another thing I kept the same is in most magazines they have a section that appears in every issue, this is why I have the 'regulars' section. Another convention that I have in my contents is the pictures coming out of the box they are in, this really catches your eye and looks really professional, this is seen in many music magazines. Also I have kept my house colours/style the same with the blue and red, this is because I want the theme of this magazine to be set colours. Another thing I have done that follows conventions of real music magazines is I have made it easy to read and easy to find what you want to read, as you can see with the clear numbers next to the articles/pictures.
Here is an example of a NME music magazine contents page, I have tried to base my own contents page off this magazine with the big pictures and page numbers on the pictures, also as you can see, on each picture, they have a short sentence introducing what it is, I have done this with my music magazine as I have introduced each Picture. Also, as you can see from this picture, there is a section that says 'plus' this has what is in the magazine, I have also got something similar to this on my contents page with the 'features section' and the 'Regulars section.'
I feel that my double page spread has used the conventions of a real magazine with this double page spread. From the research I did i found that many of the double page spreads within music magazines have columns of question and answers, these inspired me to do the same with my own double page spread, I decided to my questions in yellow and my answers would match the colours of the band members you an see in the picture. Also I found a rolling stone magazine that had the black eyed peas on the double page spread, I have analysed this magazine and they have the band members in slightly different colours so I did that with mine, although, this could be said to be a challenge to normal conventions because although on the rolling stone magazine the people are in slightly different colours, they are not completely in different colours, this is a way that I challenged normal conventions of real magazines. Although, one convention I did stick to was the way my main image is on the left with the title and masthead of the page also on the left, I have found this in many magazines.
Here is some examples of double page spreads from the rolling stone magazine, as you can see, in the Kings of Leon magazine, there is columns of questions and answers, this is what my magazine is like, so I have followed a convention of a real magazine. Also as you can see in the black eyed peas one, he image is on the left similar to mine and the titles and mastheads are also on the left, my double page spread is very similar to this one, also as you can see the main man in this magazine is a different colour to the others, this is where I got the inspiration for my own picture on my double page spread. Another convention I followed was the fact that my questions are in a different colour to the answers, just like the Kings of Leon magazine only in this one the text is bold instead of a different colour.
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