The mock up of the music magazine I had created has convetnional features of a pop magazine. I included main image, masthead, website address, sell lines, bar code, price and a plug/USP. Doing this gave me some practice and ideas of how a magazine front cover should look like. 3 main colours were, orange and white, these colours are stereotypically girl colours because a pop magzine is generally targeted at young teen girls so it has to appeal to their interest. I chose purple for the masthead and the spash because stereotypically it's a girls colour and this colour connotes fun.The colour orange is to connote autunm because of what Cher Lloyd was wearing her costume connotes comfort as she isn't wearing anything revealing or short she's instead wearing a hoodie. What I have learnt about the magzine is that page numbers are shown on the front cover for speacial features and institutional logo is always on the left side top corner. The price of the magazine is kept the same because it's conevtnional. This main image is digital image form google. Cher Lloyd is a pop singer admired by a lot of young girls as she is fashionable and young. 
This magazine cover is now improved and looks more appealing as I have stroked the masthead to stand out more to connote excitment and also stroked the name, pull quote and the USP becasue it looks plain and cheap with out strokes it also doesn't stand out due to the darkness of the costume. Black strokes match her eyeliner and connotes strong and evil however the connotaion of black stroke doesn't match the audience as the audience should be gullable, fun and sweet. I could add an institutional logo more feature pictures and more sell lines so it looks full and exciting.
