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I have decided to base my magazine on indie ones such as NME, Therefore I have decided to use a 4 piece boy band like Peace and Arctic Monkeys and my target audience it teens and young adults (15-21). I going to follow the usual codes and conventions of an indie magazine therefore i will use some of the techniques used in this magazine and hopefully set out mine so it looks professional:The features on this magazine front cover are:

• Recognizable Left Third
• Skyline 
• Main Text
• Puff
• Pug
• Screamer
• Direct Address
• Secondary Picture 
• bar-code
• URL
• Price 
• Date Line 

I Hope to use all these features in my magazine to ensure that its successful.