We started our coursework by writing down the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover. Some of the codes and conventions we found were that there is always a main image which dominates most of the cover, the title usually starts from the left hand side of the page, the price and issue date is always publish on the cover, the title is a unique font, there is a simple colour, they always have a barcode, the title is usually only ever one or two words, and there were also many more. Writing the codes and conventions for a magazine front cover will help us with our coursework because it is telling us what we need to put on our front cover and what the design will be like, so therefore our magazine cover for the preliminary exercise and the main task wont be untypical or not fit the codes and conventions. We discussed the codes and conventions so that we could write down any ones which we didn’t already have, so we knew exactly what is to be expected of our front cover.