Design elements which are used on front covers are the most important part in drawing audiences to the product by creating expectations to the audience and bringing in the target audience. For example on magazine covers there are typicalities which are seen on basically all magazines these include:

•  Plugs these are the selling points of magazines, these are smaller and less obvious than cover lines. They can often be found as small list at the sides of magazines or at the bottom along the width of the cover.
• Mastheads these are the titles of magazines e.g Vogue, cosmopolitan.
• Pugs used for promoting things inside the magazine e.g interviews, new music etc.
• Insets small pictures adding additional information.
• Captions usually short explanations for photos shown.
• Main cover stars the artist or band on the front cover
• Cover lines reveal the stories which are in the magazine, smaller than main cover lines but are often the same colour font.
• Main cover lines inform the audience the stories which are included in the magazine.
• Issue/date 
• Price
• Barcode

As a task to help us recognize these typicalities and conventions of music magazines we labelled a music magazine cover, identifying the relevant design features as shown above.

This task and knowledge will help me when creating my own music magazine cover as I now know the typicalities and conventions which I must include to bring in audiences and specifically target audiences.