Conventions of a music magazine

Conventions

The conventions of a music magazine is what we expect the front cover to be like and what we expect the contents in the magazine to be. We expect a music magazine to include things linked to music such as images of a music artist, band or a song writer. Also, we expect to see information about the music we like, a main image, the issue number, the price, adverts, the masthead and a barcode.

All magazines have the masthead at the top for a purpose. The purpose is so the masthead stands out and so the audience recognises the logo/magazine when picking it up from the shelf. The masthead is also big so it is eye catching. When they are stacked on a newspaper rack, we only see the top of the magazine which makes the audience recognise which magazine appeals to them. The model is chose carefully for the magazine the model will appear on, like we wouldn't expect to see an old man on a girls magazine, we would expect to see a well known young women to appear on a girls magazine. We would expect to see an old man on an older mens magazine.