standard conventions

Standard convetions of an indie magazine

 

 

This magazine follows the standard conventions : masthead, cover lines, main image, main cover line, cover lines, bar code. This is what almost all magazines follow when making their magazines, and you can witness is it when you look at all front covers. This makes is clear for the audience what the magazine is called, what's inside of it and what genre it is.

 However, a producer names David Carson had a magazine series called Ray Gun which went against the standard magazine coventions completley. As there is no way of identifying a house style because the conventions change each time. Ray gun was an American, alternative rock magazine and was first published in 1992 in Santa Monica, California

 

 As you can see from looking at the front covers, theyre beyond unsual and unique. if you wasnt a loyal customer, and was new to the magazine you wouldnt know that it was music related unless you examined it closley. The bar code is placed randomly in the middle and inbetween the text, where as it would usually be placed in the bottom right corner. Also, on the bottom half of the magazine, all the artists are listed in long line with no spaces between the words, making it unclear who the magazine is about as you have to look closley to make it out.

 
 This magazine has the image upside down, which is a rare occurance and confuses the audience and the text is also plotted randomly across the page going against the standard conventions.

fit's clear that David Carson was very artistic and creative and put a lot of thought and time in to his front covers. However this wouldnt be appreciated by everyone, and they may be confused, therefore he has a querky, indie audience that match his magazine.