Front Cover, Contents and DPS Powerpoint - What Did I Learn?

The music magazine powerpoint taught me that;
            *The prime position for the most significant writing on the front cover should be placed in the top left-hand-corner because it is the place that the readers will look first and will therefore keep it in mind. This is important because readers will judge the whole magazine's contents by the top-corner writing. I am going to use an important feature of the magazine in this corner instead because my featured artist 'Lilly Howard' who is the main significance in the magazine will need more room than the top corner to be considerably noticed. I have therefore placed her name along the bottom of the page, how she is going to feature in the magazine through an interview, and what page the reader should go to.
            *Depsite the fact there are many different styles and designs of front cover, the first image of a front cover shown (slide 3/14) struck me as being very plain and very boring. It may have used colour and a unique image, but the fact there was only a title at the top and "Hey Ho Let's Go" at the bottom made the genre of the magazine undefined, and I therefore believe people in a shop will not be immediately drawn to the magazine because they will be unclear on who the target audience is meant to be. I believe on every magazine cover there should be at least a couple of buzz words, images or a feature to outline exactly who it is aimed at.
            *I already knew what an interrogative and a declarative sentence is, but from this powerpoint, I learnt the difference between the other two sentence functions and what each sentence is called because of their varied purposes; I now know what an imperative is (giving an order) and an exclamative (element of surprise or alarm) whereas I used to get them confused. Every magazine should contain a variety of these sentences to mix up the information so it is very short and catchy rather than explained in detail - this is why declaratives, along with buzz words, should be used on the front cover of most magazines.
            *Lastly, I learnt what intertextuality is and the effect of using it to remind readers of something else that may or may not be linked to the topic subjected in the magazine.

I am going to try and use all these techniques in my music magazine so increase the amount of typical magazine conventions featured to make it more realistic.