Codes And Conventions Of A Music Magazine Front Cover

Usually on front covers of music magazines the main image covers most the title because they are well established and they are very well known by their audience.

The title is usually one or two words with a unique and original font.

They use direct address to attract the audience and catch their eye. They also convey an attitude of the artist/band, for example Green Day the band you can see to your left looks very serious and gives of a feeling of being very hard faced.

Whereas Cheryl Cole conveys an attitude of being flirtatious and sexual.

Certain lighting and angles are used to help convey their attitudes.

The main image used on music magazine front covers are always very popular and well known artists/bands.

The cover lines on music magazines are usually names of artists/ bands. Cover lines are all about attracting the audience.

The magazines usually include a strip listing even more artists/ bands. This creates a widest possible appeal.

Also all music magazines follow a simple colour scheme.

Codes And Conventions Of A Music Magazine Contents Page

In a music magazine contents page the features dominates one of the articles.

It includes regular content which appears every month. There are usually only around five or six.

The headings stand out to make it look more interesting to the audience . They do this by choosing certain colours.

On a contents page they usually have around five images, they would be of real bands/ artists, placed in a creative and interesting way attracting the audience more to it making them want to know what story lies behind the images.

On a music magazine contents page they have a simple colour scheme.

They also include the date, the name of the magazine and the issue number.