Codes and Conventions of music magazine contents

In todays lesson we talked about the codes and conventions of a music magazine.

• The main image relates to the main article because it is the biggest image.
• The heading 'contents' it at the top of the page and has the biggest font.
• The issue number, website and the date are located at the top of the page.
• The background is plain and the page usually has 2-3 main colours.
• The page numbers are different in size depending on how important the article is.
• The main image dominates the page.
• Under each image there is a small description.
• The page is set out in columns
• There is a blank space between each page number to split them apart.
• Usually there will be an editors letter.
• All images on the page are similar size except the more important ones.

Here is an example of a popular magazine contents page.

• Page number anchors the story to the image.