The Design Elements of a Magazine Cover

KEY TERMS: Technical conventions, expectations, typicalities.

You need to learn the TERMINOLOGY to describe EXAMPLES of print design. You need these terms to:

1. ANALYSE professional examples
2. ANNOTATE ONE FOR technical conventions

Here is a film magazine with the main design elements labelled.

Now in pairs, photocopy one cover of one of the current music magazines onto A3 paper and annotate it with all the relevant design conventions labelled.

You will then take a good photo of it and upload it to your blog.