Rock Sound - Front Cover

The masthead is conventional, and it creates a house style with the white font and font style.

The top coverline is a pug, because it advertses an exclusive CD and a competition.

The main image dominates the masthead, which shows that this is a mass-marketed, recognisable magazine. It uses low-key lighting, to achieve a moody look, which obviously is part of this bands image. Blocking was probably used to achieve this composition. The eye contact creates direct address to the reader.

The main coverline is on the left hand side which is conventional to magazines. It uses a triple to entice the reader, 'The past, the present, the future'.

The coverlines are situated in the bottom right hand corner, which isn't conventional to magazines.

There is a puff at the top of the page, 'MCR...'. Another puff is in the bottom left corner, where bands are mentioned.

The barcode is also inconventional as it is in the bottom right, rather than the left.  The price and date are above the barcode, along with a web address.