From your research what are the main codes and conventions of Music magazines: What evidence can you use to support this?

Most music magazines have the same codes and conventions like most of them will have a main mid shot image on the front cover which could be used to identify the target audience. music magazines will usually use three main colours for example the one that I researched was the Cheryl Cole Q magazine which had white black and red as its three main colours which makes the magazine look a lot better rather than just putting random colours in. Also the centre image usually goes on top of the title and  The main image in the centre usually makes the person look right in to the camera to make eye contact with the audience. some magazines prefer to do long shots so that the audeince could see the whole outfit or for a example a musical instrument. it was a rock magazine they might want to show a person playing a guitar or any other instrument which you might not be able to show with a mid-shot.

As you can see from this Q magazine they are using the three main colours scheme, the black red and white. they aslo make cheryl cole look sexy and look right at the audeince which attracts male attention.