Codes of a music front cover

Codes of a music front cover

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  The image andthe title Codes and convention a music front cover must go together whether Image must fit to size its colour wise or font. and stand out Sometimes the head will go over the title, which Lighting and angles help shows that the magazine to convey. is well established. The images used are using direct address and shows The cover lines usually put the off the attitude of the names of artists incase the band/singers. readers don’t like the original artists on the cover. Most magazines would use a ‘plus’ or buzz words, which is a list of artist to allow the readers with a wide concept of what they will find inside They use popular artists so that the magazine. the audience would be drawn into get the magazine.
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  Codes and conventionsof a content page Uses contents in all magazines. Uses at least 5 pictures as you can’t re-use the front cover. The features give more detail on what's put on the front cover allows the audience to have more of an idea on what the feature is about. The colours allow the heading to standout a lot more. Uses font 10 size so that the heading will look bigger and attract Relatively small “every the readers. month” just to give the readers an idea of what they will find every month.
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  All have animage which Codes and conventions of a double pages spread Using a drop capital shows who they are. It is to drop in the usually a whole pages text, simply tell the picture and sometimes The image really grabs the Uses a quote to allow the audience where to bleeds onto the second readers attention. readers to know what will be start reading. page in the article. There’s a strap at the top which indicates Each image shows a what the feature is. different attitude on each artist , which reflects the genre. The language and register is important for the genre and Bylines is the target audience journalists name also shows the photography credits. Uses at least 5 pictures. Uses a standfirst which is separate to Journalists personality can the article as it’s an introduction to come through the article Text size is usually no the article it works with the image to using “I” is used as 1st bigger than 11pt tell the audience what the article is person although.(only about. sometimes) AIM TO YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE!