codes and conventions of a magazine frontcover

In my first two lessons i was asking to write up the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover.

These are as flows :

• Mast Head ; This is overwise known as the title, it is in a unqiue front as it then stands out. If the magazine is well known that sometimes  the mat head can sometimes be partly hidden by an image, it then normally has a posing statment above it or below.
• Bar code; This is normally placed at the bottom or the size of the front cover. On the bar code it should have the price so that the customer knowns how much it is, the data so the customer knowns then the magazine was released  , then the issuse number so that the customer can see when the magazine was released and therefore if they miss an issue they can then order it thought the issue number. And the last thing on the bar code is the website.
• Buzz words; These advertise to the customer if anything is new or excusive within the magazine.
• Puffs; This advertises to the customer freebies.
• Image; This is the central picture on the magazine, this is normally a close up shot. It is normally on a pain background so the image stands out. Text is normally around the image and never on the face . The picture anchers with the text written as this makes it look formal.
• Cover lines; This are around the image and are in the same font. There is normally five too six cover lines.
• Smaller pictures; These are to show what else is in the magazine .i.e. a new C.D.
• Main cover line; This goes with the main image used on the magazine  to cover the maon text.
• Colour scheme; Normally three too four colours are used, by doing this it means that its simple and that the colours do not clash. The colours not only have to be eye cacthing but they also have to be easy on the eye.
• Genre; The genre of the magazine has to be made clear i.e. rock magazine.