Conventions for a magazine

Left Third - The left 3rd. if you devide the magazine into 3 sections. The first one is always the one which is shown when magazine are been displayed. So therefore this one will be the one everyone sees first so needs to be the main of the magazine cover.

Cover Lines:

Mast head: Is the heading/title to the magazine, which is always on the TOP LEFT.
Splash: is the whole front cover, the image.
Sky line: The banner above the mast head! (text)
Screamer: Shouts a sentence (important) at you
Anchoriage: Caption for a picture