Codes and conventions of a music magazine.

Music magazines always have an established artist on the front cover.

They always display the name and a leading story about this artist.

The font is always bold to represent the rebellious stereo type we give to musicians.

Competions are sometime features and usually the prize is to go see a popular atrist.

There is always a bar code, and near this the date, price and website is usually stated, or the website and price may be stated on the edge of the magazine.

They usually contrast bright and dark colours so that everything stands out.

The artist usually looks into the camera.

There is usually other smaller images of other artists.

There is always short abrieviations of music news which are continued within the magazine.

There is always subheadings and main lines these are usually about the artist featured in the main image.