The document describes the key conventions used in the design of magazine covers, contents pages, and spreads for a typical pop magazine targeted at young female readers. These conventions include using large serif mastheads, bright colors, smaller coverlines highlighting different stories, information bars, bold mastheads to guide the eye, images of the front cover on contents pages, categorized contents lists, and smaller pictures to break up text. The goal is to appeal visually to the target audience and make the magazine easy to navigate.

1. HOW MY MAGAZINE IS CONVENTIONAL
COMPARED TO AN ACTUAL POP MAGAZINE

2. Front Cover
• Large masthead in a
serif font which
reflects the large
female audience.
• Bright colours to
appeal to the
predominantly
female audience.
• Smaller coverlines to
highlight different
stories that appeal to
different readers.
• A bar of information
at the top on other
stories or/and the
issue of the
magazine along with
the price.

3. Contents Page
• Bold masthead to
begin the route of
the eye
• Bright colours
throughout the page
to appeal to the
young audience.
• Image of the front
cover to make it
easier to navigate
from.
• Different categories
of contents
• Smaller pictures
around the page to
break up the text.

4. Double-Page Spread
From the arrows you can see that there are many similarities such as:
• Pull Quote for the masthead
• Bold Masthead to begin the route of the eye with the reader
• A large picture taking up a whole page – helps to break up the amount of text
for the young audience.
• 3 columns of text on the first page, so it is clearer to read and broken up.