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This magazine front cover doesn’t have a lot of features but it does have a masthead a huge picture and a lead but this is convention to this particular magazine as this is its house style though for the colour scheme, it changes depending on the picture apart from the masthead. There is a representation on this cover but it is done differently as there are hammers on the cover which is related to men because of handy men and builders this is not thought of with women because stereotypically women can only cook.  The cover is mostly to do with the band that’s at the bottom as there album has a song called another brick in the wall which is why there is hammers breaking down a wall, also the triangle with the spectrum of light was one of their album covers from a previous album and basically all of their album covers from 30 years back are on this cover showing all of the bands achievements on one magazine cover. The conventions of all magazines at the very least always have a masthead a picture and some pugs, whereas this magazine codes are freebies and is on most of classic rocks magazine.

   

This magazine front cover has quite a lot of features it has a masthead, pugs, rule of thirds, anchorage text and freebies. This magazines house style always has a picture of an artist or of the lead man or woman in a band on the front, also it has the same layout each time on the magazine unless the picture interrupts the layout then the layout will just change sides. Most of the text to do with the magazine is on the left and if a picture interrupts or over laps the text will go on the right. Also the magazines colour scheme is white blue and yellow the magazine will always use these colours but depending on the photo in the middle they might change the colours around so if the photo had a blue background they would change the title to white. The magazine has a photo of the lead man in the band 30 seconds to mars in the media industry such as film representations of men are meant to be big, strong and charismatic but in the music industry this doesn’t matter if the artist is talented then that’s all that matters in the photo the man doesn’t look big and strong he just looks like a normal charismatic guy. The conventions of all magazines at the very least always have a masthead a picture and some pugs, whereas this magazine codes are freebies, lots of posters and a lot of pugs and plugs.