Most successful magazines all have the same or very similar conventions. These conventions include:

• Main cover line
• Main cover stars
• Masthead
• Cover lines
• Insets
• Captions
• Plug
• Pug
• Issue/date
• Price
• Bar code

Below shows a magazine labelled with the conventions most magazines contain.

Although this magazine contains most of the components, it isn’t as conventional as other magazines. For example, the masthead isn’t as big as it could be; especially compared to others. This could effect how well it grabs the attention of the audience. This magazine also doesn’t contain a pug. A pug is a promotion for something included inside the magazine. (for example: “30 must see movies!”)

From analysing the technical conventions of a music magazine, it has shown me that although magazines can be based on very different genres, they are all constructed in quite similar ways. The more conventions included, the better the magazine is at catching the attention of the audience.