What are the forms and conventions of real music magazines…..what conventions have you identified in relation to the layout and design of music magazines?

Here are 2 covers for music magazines I looked at. Both use a large picture of a model as the background with a large title at the top of the page to allow the reader to identify it quickly. They both incorporate other, smaller, pictures to illustrate other stories. The main story of the magazine is made obvious by using a larger font to make it stand out from the other stories. Q magazine uses a banner across the bottom of the page to highlight the feature story of the magazine, this uses a different colour scheme from the rest of the cover and I would guess that this is the colour scheme used specifically for this piece throughout the rest of the magazine.

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