The Conventions

In any piece of media there will always be conventions. These features are the ones that will grab the audiences attention and sell.

The most important conventions to include are

Master head: Its what the audience will know the company for. The main display name (mainly used in magazines or newspaper) Its the visual branding which is specially designed to be unique and easily recognized.

Main image : A certain image will be used to interest and interact with your audience. The image should relate to that specific media at that time.

Cover lines: After great competition in the 1950s to sell the magazines there became a bigger use of cover lines. these are distributed around the main image however they are sometimes misused and too many are placed around the main image and there for difficult to read with all of the colours.

Left third: This is considered one of the most important parts of the magazine, this is what the reader sees first, it usually consists are short cover lines to interest the reader.

Dateline: this is to show when the magazine was published, however a monthly magazine is usually at the news stands a month before the cover date.