Codes and Conventions of the Rock genre.

Codes/ Conventions of a rock magaizine:
Through researching existing and successful magazine companies that sell rock music magazines, I was able to gain an understanding of what is typical of this genre.
The layout tends to use medium shots of the artists and uses the sans serif font. The photos of the artists sometimes have a dark effect applied to them also, adding to a black and white appearance of the page. These images are also fairly large, covering the majority of the page.
The mast head of magazines of this genre often reflect the style of this genre though a dark colour scheme being used. Simialrly, effects such as glass smashing are used to reflect the rough  nature of the genre, which is very rough and somewhat 'hardcore'.
For the most part, the target audience wont be overly enticed by special offers, but have more preferance to instresting stories and articles, or their favourite atrists. Due to this, the plugs I use will focus more on the stories of the magazine as opposed to promations or offers.
The colours of the magazines tend to be very consistent with few bright or vibrant colours used. Black and white are by far the more popular of the colours used.

After analysing these magazines and gaining an understanding of the codes and conventions I'll confidently be able to incorparate some aspects into my magazine.