The title of my magazine: Looking at other country magazines when doing the research before creating my own, I found that most of them had references to the genre in their titles. For example, 'UP Country' and 'Southern Country' magazines. This helped me when deciding on my magazines name and I came up with several options in my earlier post. 'It's All Country' fits in with the conventions of these magazines.
Mis-en-scene of images: This is the image I used for my front cover. I thought this most represented a country band out of the photos taken. They all have quite calm, sombre expressions which I think fits as country songs are quite like that. My contents page is filled with poloroid images and a large image of a guiter which I think helps increase the country genre. My photos in general portray a close knit feel, not a poppy, obviously put-together band which is how most country bands are.
Costumes and props: The acoustic guiter in the centre of my front cover is a popular instrument in country music and the one most identified with it, so I thought it appropriate to use that as a prop. Two of my models are dressed in red, blue and white which is the england flag colours. This i thought appropriate because country magazines all seem to be very patriotic. The middle model didnt wear these colours because i thought it would be abit too bright in the background. I could have had them wear cowboy hats to make it even more obvious a genre, but I thought that might be a bit too much.
People: I thought the people i used as models in my magazine were appropriate because they were an all girl group (appropriate for the band they were representing; The Dixie Chicks) and also because they all listen to country music already and have the sort of background.
Title font and style: I thought this an ideal font for my magazines look because at first glance it reminds you of cowboys and quite old times, which is perfect for Country music because it is quite an old fashioned genre.
Written content: The written content in my magazine is based on a question and answer system. I could have done it by way of their story instead of strict questions but i liked this way better - I've seen it done in my magazine research. The questions I asked were based on the band's (fake) return to music and their lives surrounding that.
Music genre and how your magazine suggests it:
My music genre was Country and everything in my magazine suggests it. Everything above helped in someway to show the country genre. The main things were the font on the front page (The title as well as the masthead), the instrument shown in the image (acoustic guitar) as well as the bands featured on the cover (The Dixie Chicks and Dolly Parton).
Layout: The layout of my magazine is quite bare for normal covers, but normal on country magazines. My research showed that the covers are't generally completely covered with articles and images, its quite simply featured.
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