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In this question I will be comparing my music magazine layout and features with the music magazine 'Q'; how their conventions of a music magazine were adopted into my final design. 

As you can see, the front cover above is a well known music magazine that specializes in rock and light rock music. They are also known for including other popular genres as well. 

Most of the conventions in this magazine have been adopted by Good Vibes and included in the design content. For example, the use of boxing on the mast head to create a boldness to text and to make the magazine have a title which attracts the attention of readers. This has also worked well with the colour scheme and layout. On Good Vibes the various font types and sizes have been amplified as well as adopted onto the front cover. This will act as a puff and plug as well as enticing the reader into the features available to them. This is the main design feature that you are able to see in Good Vibes. All of the conventional features are also included in Good Vibes such as the Mast head, the left third, cover line and puffs and plugs.
The main image of Q magazine is very similar to the one of Good Vibes, this means it is easy to adopt and relate to the layout of the front cover. 

The conventions displayed in the contents page are displayed in both examples of music magazine. However they have been modified to attract the reader to different bits of the magazine.

The boxing theme has been consistent through the front cover and the contents page as this works well in creating a simply layout that looks advanced. The titles of the contents pages on both magazine are similar; they have similar layouts but different colour schemes and the boxes have been slightly altered from each other. Once again, Good Vibes has adopted this theme and put its own twist on it. This has been done for the contents box also; however, the only feature that has been recreated from 'Q' is the white background as it is an easy background to put most coloured  text on. Both magazines have obedient colour schemes also, as they both have them throughout the magazine which adds the professional design to them.

This double page spread has very little features that have been adopted by Good Vibes. The only thing that has been recreated was the large image, however it has been shortened to fit in more images underneath. One other thing that Good Vibes has included in theirs that is in 'Q' is the concept of using drop capitals. On the other hand this was a necessity and had to be included either way.



Good Vibes has a fairly basic double page spread that has a professional look - I think- which also contains attractive and professional images that were taken in a photography studio. The mid-blue form the colour scheme has been amplified in a way in which it determines the title as the band name and carries on as the colour of the text of the introduction. It is important to not add to much blue to distract the readers attention from the story. The black has remained minuscule as the genre is light which requires a light colour scheme. The conventional feature in this double page spread include the pull out quote and an image as well as an enlarged letter at the beginning of the paragraph which has been included and changed into the Good Vibes font of 'century Gothic'

Overall, Good Vibes has included design features of the popular music magazine 'Q' and 'NME' and has incorporated them into its own design to fit the magazines theme, target audience and genre as well as including all the conventional features that are needed in order to make a music magazine popular.