Indie Rock magazine: Codes and Conventions.

Indie Rock magazine:

Front Cover

Conventions:

• Mast-head is usually in bold letters and in the colour red. Bright and dominating colour.
• Main-Heading are usually in Red or white, keeping to its front cover colour scheme. The headings are wrote in 'Sans Serif', showing a friendly feel to engage the reader to read this magazine.
• The main image is usually placed on the right hand side of the front cover, it starts to blend over the mast-head, this happens on most of NME front covers. They are also placed on a white background, making the image stand out more.
• Special offers or promotion are usually in yellow.
• They keep to them same, basic colour scheme: Red, Yellow, Black and White. But mostly use the colour red.
• The bar-code is placed at the bottom right hand corner, not much attention is put on the bar-code, so your attention goes on the main-image/headings first.

Codes:

           Symbolic Codes:

• The typical symbolic codes of a music magazine (NME) is the plugs are usually yellow and bold, and placed at either the top of the magazine or the bottom.
• Always include an image on the front cover of the artist, which will be the main point of the magazine.