Our first task when begining to directly work towards our music magazine was to look at and identify the conventional features of one. In pairs, we were given a random magazine cover and were instructed to label and name each typical feature used. These features include the masthead, the main title and brand of the magazine, a main cover star image (often central), a barcode and price in the bottom left hand corner and an array of smaller insets, captions and pugs to give an insight of further stories and articles inside. This analysis and identification gives us a generally better idea of the typicalities of a music magazine cover, allowing us to know to include and where when compiling our own.
