Preliminary Exercise

After the reseach (below) we were able to sketch basic ideas of what are magazine would look like.

Research

Codes and Conventions - Magazine Front Covers (music magazine).

• Title; one word, top left hand corner (due to western culture - reading left to right), full page width, unique font (so that the audience relates it to the magazine).
  
• Picture e.g a band; direct address (not smiling as this conveys attitude which connotes music), medium close up.
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  Main cover line - it anchors the meaning of the main image, largest text after the title, coverlines relate to the contents - inticing and teasingt he audience in order to provoke interest.
  
• Typography (style of the font); consistent with few fonts (Sans Serif and Serif {most commonly used, eg Times New Roman})
  
• Connotations of the font reflect the target audience and subject - the words frame the main image.
• Positioning Statement - by the title; above or below and imples the need of the magazine.
• Masthead is usually made up of; Title, postioning statement, date and price.
• Barcode - postioned usually bottom right (avoid abstrauction of advert on the back page)
• Buzzwords - eg. 'exclusive'
• Puff - 'something for nothing'
• Strip at the bottom or top of cover - list of names, eg. bands, aritist that are included in the magazine.
  






















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  Consistent colour scheme - few colours are used as this creates a proffessial effec
  






















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  Snap shots of other artists/bands to allude to content.
  
  

Codes and Coventions - Contents pages (music magazine).

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  Editorial letter - picture and signiture.























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  Pictures of contents, with page numbers - anchor to contents. Usually there is a main image surrounded by smaller images.
  






















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  Index list
  






















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  Magazine name - top left. Alongwith; date, issue number and 'contents'























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  Uses headings to divide contents.























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  Consistent colour scheme - few colours, sometimes similar to that of the cover.























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  Colums - 2 or 3 is standard.
  






















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  Page number then text - one or two words bold or larger text, subline in smaller text.























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  Regular contents and features.
  






















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  Bottom of page - page number, title, issue number and website.
  






















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  An example of a music that breaks the conventions - 'NME' as its weekly it has a regular contents whereby there is a index of artiets that changes.
  
  






















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  Contact details.

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