Conventions of a magazine front cover and contents page

Front Cover

• A masthead for the school magazine.
• A headline, which is about the main feature in the magazine.
• A strapline, talking about the headline's article.
• Coverlines, which give the audience an idea of what is in this issue.
• Pug/Starbust, something that stands out to the audience so that they are more likely to read it.
• A main image. Usually about the article the headline talks about.
• Date if issue.
• A variety of font sizes (masthead will have large font, headline large font, streamline and cover line smaller).
• Price.

Contents Page

•  Some images about the articles in the magazine.
• A table of contents, which includes captions giving the audience and idea about what the article is about.
• Page numbers and information as to what articles are on the page.
• Captions for the images on the contents page.
• Columns