The codes and conventions of a magazine that are evident on this front cover are a main image, masthead, cover lines, main cover line. It also has quite a few

different eye catching colours. The main cover line of this front cover is “Back WITH A BANG” positioned in the bottom left corner of the magazine. We can identify this as the main cover line as it uses buzzwords like “bang” and it also

has the largest font out of the other cover lines. This is to attract the audience to their most interesting story by catching their eye with the big and bold font.

There is very few cover lines on this magazine, this could be because the main image is quite busy and the focus is on that. There is a few missing codes and

conventions such as a bar code, a price, puff etc.

The primary audience of this magazine would be working people aged 30-45 who live in London, socio economic group of B- so middle class. The secondary audience for this magazine would probably be people who are visiting London

and who would possibly be interested in the contents, or are purely attracted by appearance of the magazine.

The text is attracting it’s target audience as it stands out from the background image, it doesn’t blend in so it isn’t legible. It is also quite big and bold which

immediately catches peoples eyes anyway.

On this front cover, London as a place, is being represented, specifically Canary Wharf. You can see this from the main image, as well as the masthead of the

front cover.

London on this front cover is being represented as quite bright and colourful at night. This could be seen as a stereotype as it is a city, so you would expect it to

be like this.