Reflection Point : What Have I Learned About Independent Music Magazine Front Covers?

The main ideas in which I have learnt through studying the front covers of music magazines is that they all come with the same features and follow the generic conventions in order to keep retaining customers and keep sales high whilst they continue to fall. As the sales continue to fall within the magazine industry, the key conventions of the front covers such as eye catching images and bold mastheads make the magazine stand out to catch the attention of new audiences and hope to retain them each month. In addition, the most common way in which the ownership of the independent music magazine operate is through not necessarily the distribution and circulation f the magazines, they solely focus on the production of them to insist they do not over do the amount in which they need. Furthermore, the masthead is the key way in which attracts the new customers or repeated customers in to purchasing the product again. For example, on both the Wire and RnR the mastheads are the soul focus and what catches the eyes of the audiences. 

Furthermore, the dynamic and eye catching images is what also catches the attention of readers. The Wire and RnR always have a new, colourful and music focused main image to nicely compliment their monthly magazine. For example, the month of May for both The Wire and RnR had a lovely front cover which directly linked the artist at show. The way in which this works s well is through the thought and time that the magazines take each time developing these front covers in order to increase sales and gain attention onto their magazines.