Conventions

Conventions are like rules and are what creates a magazine front cover. Depending on the genre of magazines effects the way they are laid out. All magazines will have the same conventions.

All covers will have a Title/Masthead, this is what shows the name of the magazine for example this usually is positioned along the top and is bigger than any other font on the page. They can also have a strapline beneath the title.

A college magazine will also have a large picture, most of the time it tends to cover the whole page and is the main attraction.The image will relate to what the magazine is called and what will be inside. The idea fo the photo is not to look too posed but to look natural.

There will be a logo of some sort of sponsor for the magazine, usually along the bottom of the magazine, quite small but still noticeable. For example .

Sometimes along side of the logo it will have a website you can visit, usually for more information for example .

In some spaces theres will be what is known as 'plugs' they give you a brief insight of the content and give you guidelines on to where to find it. There will also be a date of the issue, so it is possible for an update and get the next months issue for more imformation on different events.

As i have noticed college/school magazines aren't as busy as a normal magazines such as 'Heat' and 'Nuts'. They are kept simple so that they are easy to read and gets straight to the point on what the magazine is about.