This document summarizes conventions for magazine covers. It discusses elements like the masthead, strap line, cover lines, dominant images, genres, target audiences, and color schemes. The masthead displays the magazine title, the strap line provides additional context, and cover lines tease the magazine's content. Dominant images typically relate to the cover story. Genres, audiences, and attitudes are also communicated through visual and textual cues.

1. Masthead – the title of the magazine Cover line– tells us who the people in Music genre: Dance
gets straight to the point by telling us the dominant image are and what will
be said about them in the magazine. Target audience: Young
that these people in the photo are djs.
Adults
And also the magazine itself is aimed at
the genre dance and for djs. Age range: 20-26
Gender: Male
Main Cover line– Lifestyle: dance / clubs
tells us that what has
been going on in the Ideologies / attitudes:
summer. The cover Colourful – uses lots of
line stands out colour to represent dj’s and
the dance/ clubbing
Strap line- is because its in a
lifestyle.
telling the white box. This
audience technique makes the
what the cover line stand out
magazine is more.
about and
what type of Colour scheme – usually
lifestyle and most magazines have three
attitudes it colours at most for their
has. colour scheme. The colour
scheme for this magazine is
red white and yellow.
Dateline /
cover price
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2. Masthead – the title of the magazine Strap line – the main is short and to the
has cracks in the font to give it the point. In a way it is also telling us what Music genre: Heavy Metal
heavy metal effect. Also its behind the the type of music in this magazine is
dominant image to show maybe focus Target audience: Teenagers
loud as well.
and young adults
on the image more.
Age range: 14 - 20
Main Cover
line – the main Gender: Both
cover line is
Lifestyle: Dark
bigger than the
There are small
mast head Ideologies / attitudes: very
cover lines
because they serious and sometimes a
with images
want to focus little dark. Alot of black
showing what
more one the
else is inside
subject.
the image. But
these cover Dominant Image – correlates
lines are not with the main cover line as it is
hinting what the band that is being talked
will be inside about. The image is meant to
but being very look very serious and the
exact about it. colours are very dark.
Colour schemes – as the last
magazine there are three main
colour schemes. Most of it is
black. The rest is gold and
Dateline and
white.
cover price
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3. Music genre: Wide range of
Masthead – the title of the magazine Main cover line – is telling us the genres including hip hop, dance,
has is red and the rest of the magazine biggest topic inside of the magazine. It metal and mainly indie
is lighter so the mast head can stand stands out because it has an effect that
out which it does. the magazine has been ripped of and Target audience: teenagers and
adults
we can now see this cove line.
Age range: 16 – 30
Gender: Both
Strap line – new Lifestyle: wide range
musical express is
Ideologies / attitudes: indie
what NME
basically stands
for. And it tells us
that there are not
one particular
Dominant image – the image is showing
genre but many
Florence and the machine with the
in one magazine.
label telling us who she is. The tattoo is
being shown so the audience feels
more informal and the magazine feels
more welcoming
More images – Dominant image – the image is showing
on the side of the Florence and the machine with the
main cover of the label telling us who she is.
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are more bands
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different genres
and they have
been labelled as
well to tell us
who they are. Date of the magazine and cover price
Labels all the genres that are in this particular magazine.

4. Masthead – is telling us that this Side strip – there are three images with Music genre: pop
magazine will be talking about music small and quick annotations cover lines
Target audience: teenagers
that is very popular in the music charts of what we will be reading inside the
and music that is popular and well magazine Age range: 13 - 19
known
Gender: female
Lifestyle: happy / smiling
Ideologies / attitudes:
happy
Strap line – tells us that we
will not only be finding out
about popular music but
also that the magazine other Dominant Image – the main image for
things the magazine will be this magazine correlates with the main
talking about. But the strap cover line. Its behind the main cover
line on this magazine is very line. Its a close up shot of avril lavigne
small so it can focus on the so we know she is the main topic in this
masthead particular magazine.
Colour Scheme – the three colours in
this magazine are pink , blue and
yellow. The colour pink is used the most
in this magazine maybe to show that
Main cover line – shows us that this magazine genre is for females
this magazine is hinting toward rather then males.
being for girls and with the
cover line there is also a quote
connecting with the cover line Price of the magazine and the
date of the magazine.
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