Front Cover

The cover of a magazine is used to attract readers and grab their attention. This is why big bold fonts are used.

There is always a main artist or band featured on the cover to reflect what is inside.

There are usually additional artists or story headlines on the cover along with the main feature to identify what the magazine is about overall. These also reflect the genre of the music inside the magazine..

Generally there are 3-4 different fonts and colours used to make it interesting and pretty to look at but too many varieties would make it look to messy and unprofessional.

Contents

The contents usually give credit to the photographer of the front cover image.

They also show the same date that is on the front cover.

The contents page show the amount of pages in the magazine and tell you what is on each page therefore making things easier to find.

They usually show a variety of images which are distance shots to show what's going on rather than being secretive like the front cover images which are close ups. The images represent the contents page since the contents page informs as do the images.

Double Page Spread(DPS)

Texts are written in columns with no orphans or windows.

There is a photo that takes up a full page of the person that the article is about. The photographers credit is usually in a bottom corner.

There are expanded quotes from the articles usually in the middle of the page. These quotes are usually exaggerated or brought out of context to make the article seem more interesting or unique.

The writing is normally fairly informal and the writing makes the artist feel like a friend.

There are usually headings, straplines and/or stand alone paragraphs.