The conventions of making a good front cover for a music magazine

 The Masthead must be in the top left aligned completely across or top left if short. Also you should use an eye catching unique font. The main image is allowed to cover the title only if their magazine is well known. An example of this is here is a picture of a Rock magazine called “Rock Sound” and on the front is a band called 5 Seconds of Summer and part of their heads are covering the title but it doesn’t matter to much because this is a well-known magazine.

3. You should use one main image and this image should be of a well-known band or celebrity. When taking the image you should make sure you have direct eye address used at audience to engage them because this is what sells a magazine. However when taking the image you should make sure it’s a mid-shot or a close up is used, or longer shots if the image is a band. The images are mainly posed with a clear background, you will never find text over the facial aspect of the image.

4. Colour Scheme• 3 or 4 colours maximum to make it simple.• Primary colours are more popular within music magazines as they do not contrast/clash with one another.

5. Cover lines are also important, quite vague on purpose to draw the audience in. They should always be written in capitals to grab the attention of the audience. They should also be in the same font, bold and simple. This then frames the main image on the magazine. There should be 5 or 6 cover lines maximum. The main cover line should anchor the main image and is larger font than other cover lines.  The sublines generally give more information to the cover lines, although do not always give the story away.

6. The text should be smaller and minor images are used to link to other stories inside magazine or other cover lines. The fonts that should be used are, Sans Serif (plain font), Times New Roman or Arial.