codes and conventions of a music magazine- Front cover

In this section of my blog I will discuss the key codes and conventions of a magazine, here we have one of the UKs most read music magazines NME and so would be  a good template for my own as its obvious that they have got the "formula" right. To the far left we see the masthead, this is the ussually the largest text on the page and is most often the name of the magazine, the name/title of a magazine and this is often centred to draw immidate focused attention to the title, however as NME are now very well known in the UK so they can possition the title almost anywere on the front page and people should almost always be able to distinguish NME from its competiors even though the title may not be directly in the middle (this is also due to a template*)