Conventions of a pop magazine-font cover

Conventions in a top of the pops magazine.

Front cover • Masthead• Coverlines• Image on front cover (always a famous artist or band)• The main image is usually a mid-shot with direct eye contact • Colour scheme • Follows the route of the eye • Pull quotes• See a house style • Barcode• Price• Date• Issue• Fashion related bursts• Headline • title

slug

Masthead

Coverlines

Famous image of artist

Barcode

£1.99 Pricecoverline

Pull quote

Close-up images

Fashionable clothes

Why my magazine front cover is conventional.

My front cover is conventional because is has a similar layout to a top of the pops magazine and share some of the same conventions. They both have a masthead which is big and bold and in the colour pink which connotes girlyness which is conventional or the target audience. Right at the top of the page both have a magazine with a slug at the top which gives more information to make the magazine more appealing to the target audience. They also both share pull quotes on the front cover which will grab the readers attention and make them want to read and buy the magazine. The magazines both have a main image that takes up about half the page, this image should conventionally be an image of a well know artist or band in the pop industry. My image is conventional because the girl is making eye contact with the camera and smiling, she has long blonde hair and is wearing make up and fashionable clothes which is conventional for the target audience as these are the type of people that get there attention and they want to read about. The use of pull quotes are used in both magazine front covers along side a close up image, this is conventional because the reader will know who the pull quote is about and the pictures will be of three well known pop artists so the target audience will want to read more. Both of the magazine front covers set up an house style, the top of the pops front cover magazine has set the house style of pink, yellow and white and my front cover set the house style of blue, pink and white, all these colours are girly and conventional. Each magazine on the front cover has a little segment on fashion this is conventional because the target audience being pre-teen are very into the way they look and want to look like their role models. Both magazines have the convention that most other magazines have which is a barcode and a price on how much the magazine costs.