The document discusses conventions for magazine covers, including: - Cover images typically feature artists relevant to the magazine's content and draw attention. - Mastheads are usually in a large, bold font at the top of the cover. Well-known magazines may use just a few letters. - Color schemes tend to be simple with 3-4 contrasting colors, sometimes black and white. - Brief text snippets and images advertise stories inside, usually in bold or large fonts for important pieces.

1. CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC
MAGAZINE COVER

2. COVER IMAGE.
• Every magazine cover with holds an image that
normally relates to the main article and selling point of
the magazine.
• Within a music magazine cover the image normally
consists of an artist or somebody who is relevant within
the music world.
• The image used within the magazine cover shown for
’Rolling Stones’ the artist is looking straight at the
audience into the camera to which gives a direct
address.
• This allows attention to be brought towards the cover
opposed to an image of a further away artist or
somebody who is not looking directly at the camera

3. MASTHEAD
• The masthead will normally cover the complete
top of the magazine cover however if the name is
short it will sit in the top left corner.
• Ideally it is in a big bold font to attract the
audience, for example within the example on this
slide the cover image used is in black and white
whereas the title is in a bold, unique and colored
font making it stand out.
• The main image can sometimes cover the title if
it is well known, for example a magazine such as
‘Rolling Stone’ is a very well known magazine,
allowing people to recognize it by a few letters
and purely the font.

4. COLOUR SCHEME.
• Magazine covers tend to remain simple with
the colour scheme, consisting of only 3-4
colours enabling them to contrast well.
• Some covers tend to be all black and white to
represent different styles
• The colours that I have found that are
common in popular music magazines are
mainly primary colours, showing to be bright
and bold.

5. TEXT.
• Brief snippets of texts and images are
commonly used to the left and right of the
magazine cover to link to stories that are
involved inside the magazine.
• These tend to be in bold, large texts if they are
seen as important, however some are smaller
and represent filler stories that are within the
magazine.
• Texts that are commonly used within popular
music magazine covers are Sans Serif, Times
New Roman & Ariel.

6. TEXT - COVERLINES
• As I have previously mentioned the types of cover lines that
are used tend to be out of the ordinary and ambiguous, this
is an attempt to draw in the target audience.
• They also tend to be written in bold, simple fonts to which
are all in capitals.
• Commonly 5-6 coverlines are used as the magazine should
not be too crowded in that the audience cannot read them
easily, this allows them to frame the main image rather than
cover the entirety of the magazine cover.
• Sublines are also used to write extra information on the cover
lines to give a further insight to the story, however without
giving away a lot of important information to the story.