Conventions of Music Magazines

Whilst producing my magazine's I looked at the conventions of other magazines. Starting with the front covers the key elements are the title, main image, tagline, cover lines, functional information (barcode, price etc) banners and puffs are another also additional conventions of a front cover. I decided to keep most of these conventions as they make a good front cover.

I annotated an issue of Kerrang to asses what conventions there were and what they meant and the connotations they have to the reader.