Conventions of the magazine.

 All Magazines have to follow a similar rule. They all have to be either monthly "glossies" or cheaper weekly magazine. They all have to have a certain amount of intent on the front cover and the feature inside the magazine to hopefully encourage people to read the magazine in the future.

 Magazine covers are suppose to be colourful and advertising for the potential reader. Profits for the magazines are made by using good, creative and exciting, this has to be done as their is so much competition for the same types of magazines and you have to make your magazine the best around due to competition from other publishers. A colour scheme is also important for the magazine as it is creating an "house style" which makes it appealing to the target audience and if the wrong colourscheme is placed you could be making a big mistake.

All magazines have titles and subtitles on their front covers, these have to be eyecatching and visually interesting and are done to tell the audience what the name of the magazine is and what is featured in the website. This is done to encourage people to open the magazine and read the feature story in the magazine. This text is usually done in creative fonts and various types of colours to encourage people to pick up the magazine and read all the feature stories included. The style of font on the front cover has to reflect the genre of music magazine which you are aiming to publish and sell to the vast audience of the magazine.

The pictures on the front cover, contents page and the feature document are even more important to the audience, then the titles and the features which are included within the website. Some people may only pick up the magazine because of the image and it is vital for the photographer aswell as the publisher that they are going to sell copies of the magazine. The dress code of these celebrities have to suit the genre aswell and made to look like they are part of that certain music genre.

Many magazines have a double page feature which contain a big picture of the interviewed person across the feature page with columns of text either over or at the side of the main picture. This has been done so people can look at the pictures and the text if they wish to have a browse at the text. The headline and the size of text has to be eye-catching and readable by the audience. The celebrities may only do a few interviews per year and these are mainly for major releases or products of theirs which are going to released or have been released in the past.

A contents page in a magazine has to be as creative as the front cover. They have to use dominant images which tells the audience what sort of magazine they are about to read. The images and the text placed in the contents page often determine if the person is willing to read the magazine or not. The images also have to be appropriate to the audience as they can often determine whether the person is willing to read the magazine or not. This means that the contents page has to be perfect or the potential audience will put the magazine back and pick something else up.