Researching the conventions of magazines
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Case Study By Sophie Quartermaine
Barcodes on the magazine are either usually on the top of the magazine or the bottom. Also
they usually include a date of the magazine, the issue number and the price of the magazine.
Basic Black Masthead
writing. Keeping it simple.
Reoccurring colours,
Red, Yellow, Blue & Green.
Title is a nice size and top centred
which means that it is one of the main
focuses of the magazines.
The Masthead is colourful and very fun, the colours however
are very unisex. So this shows that the
magazine is for both male and female.
The colours however show that this magazine is very
transferrable because although it caters for people that are fun, colourful and
very hypo, the picture on the cover is of someone who raps and focusses on RnB
The Masthead is very consistent it uses the same design for the title over all of the covers of the magazines.
Promotional slogan on the front of the magazine
grabs the readers attention as well as advertising the latest news and competitions.
Masthead
Front CoverDesign of the colours of the background
matches the model on the front cover. So
Katy Perry looks very girly and is covered in
flowers & the background is pink
and girly.
The main picture is
usually the main feature
article. Medium close up/mid shot pictures are usually used and featured on the front of the magazine cover.
When looking at the appeal this has on the audience, we see that the front cover is girly
and fun. This also appeals to girls and women who are into
pop music etc.
Handful of cover lines from the
magazine. Placed accordingly on the
front cover.
Contents Page Magazine title is
consistent on each page.
Masthead of the page: ‘Contents’ Big, Black, Bold writing.
Main image of the contents page. Means that it is another feature story. It will also tell you the page number of where it can be found. Issue number and page number.
Repeat contents feature of the chart lists. After looking at other contents pages of the same magazine it shows that they are the same.
Sub Headings for each article, this also
shows an insight underneath to what the article is actually about. Next to this is the page numbers in which you will find it.
The contents page also uses pictures of the articles previews to show what is also in the magazine. This also includes page numbers.